I am filled with so much gratitude for you all, for your kind words, for the way you shared your own stories, and for how openly you received my last collection. Your support reminds me that art doesn’t just live on the canvas, it lives in the connections it creates.
I want to share a little about why I create calm art.
For a long time, my nervous system was stuck in overdrive. I was overstimulated, constantly stressed, just surviving. On the outside, I had “made it”: I was earning an income from my art, I had a supportive husband, two children, and we had just bought our first home. But inside, my self-talk was crippling, my mind spinning. I knew something had to change.
During this time, I came across a book on compassion, The Compassionate Mind by Paul Gilbert. This opened my mind and heart. It wasn’t an instant fix (I’m still learning every day), but it gave me a new baseline. I started creating space for rest, for simply existing, for being more compassionate with myself. Something shifted, and I began to want to help others, not from guilt or an obligation (“that pressure of ‘I should be a good person’”), but from a deeper, truer desire.
My art grew from that place. It became a way of slowing down, of finding a quieter way of living, and a way of sharing openly and vulnerably my life and all its ups and downs, but doing it with compassion. Each piece I make now carries that intention: a way to help lower the nervous system, to invite calm, and to open a conversation around self-compassion, rest, and the small joys of life. I believe a kinder and more compassionate internal world ripples outward, creating a gentler, kinder world.
Some of the works from these earlier collections are still with me. They hold the same energy of calm and compassion, and I would love for them to find the homes they were created for.
I’ve put together a Studio Sale, offering 25%–30% off, so these pieces can find their forever homes. Substack subscribers are getting first access.
View the catalogue for my studio sale here
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for being part of this journey with me.
With gratitude,
Jasmine Nicole