Embody Your Story

Commission a Custom Portrait

At Embodied in Art, Jess creates custom therapeutic portraits that celebrate women’s bodies, stories, and resilience. Each portrait combines creative arts therapy with a personal artistic process, offering women a unique way to reconnect with themselves, embrace and celebrate their body and stories.

Embody Your Story Portrait, a personalised commission

Why Commission a Custom Painting?

Women facing trauma, health challenges such as cancer, or life altering transitions often describe feeling disconnected from their bodies, emotions or identities.

Traditional support can help, but many women also need creative, holistic ways of processing their experiences.

Custom portraits offer a creative, empowering alternative — using art to bridge the gap between healing and self-expression.

A custom healing portrait offers

Empowerment Through Art - Your story deserves to be seen. Celebrate your resilience, individuality, and beauty.

Emotional Healing & Connection - Helping women feel seen and heard. Together, we’ll explore emotions and experiences that may have been unspoken, shaping them into something tangible and healing.

Truly One-of-a-Kind - Every commission is unique - translating your story into a piece as distinctive as you.

Legacy - Create something meaningful to hold onto, share, or pass down

How It Works

Step One. Introduction Session

One-to-one (in person or virtual) to meet Jess. Learn about the process and explore areas of Creative Therapy that could inspire the portrait.

Step Two. Shape Your Style

A tailored creative therapy journal, supports the design and creation of the chosen composition, colours, mood, and texture to match your vision and emotions.

Step Three. Bring the vision to life

Insights from the journal inform a mood board and concept sketches discussed in a design session. A photography session then explores movement and posture to capture your body expression.

Step Four: From Sketches to Canvas

Jess turns your design into a custom portrait. You'll receive updates from Jess and can provide feedback at key stages of the portraits development.

Step Five. Completion & Accompaniment

A final artwork that reflects your body and story. Accompanied by a debrief pack with ongoing suggested creative art therapy tools to provide continued self-led emotional expression through art.

Your Story in Art

What Makes These Pieces Unique

Because my work is informed by lived experience, psychology, and holistic creative therapy, commissioning with me isn’t just about the final artwork—it’s about feeling seen, heard, and empowered throughout the process.

The same principles that guide Embodied in Arts collections inform every commission: compassion, authenticity, healing, and social impact.

Artistic depiction of a nude figure in a blue-toned abstract setting

Start Your Journey

Are you ready to transform your story into art?

Email embodiedinart.byjess@gmail.com

to Book a Consultation to explore your ideas and emotions to shape a meaningful piece OR complete a custom commission request to start the process.

Together, we’ll create a piece that honours your journey, celebrates your story, and supports healing through art.