A portrait by Jérôme
lets your presence stand.
A commissioned portrait for women whose presence deserves to occupy space beautifully, permanently, and without apology.
For many women, there comes a moment when they step into a different kind of authorship over their lives.
A new home. A new season. Children grown. A marriage deepened - or ended. A long career ending, and finally belonging to herself. And beneath it all, often, a longing to be seen and revealed as she truly is after years spent holding the lives of others together.
As time begins to feel more precious, many women also begin to think differently about legacy: about what will remain visible of them in the world they shaped so profoundly.
At those moments, a photograph can become more than just a record how someone looked at a particular moment in time.
At its best, it can become a lasting reminder of something essential — a touchstone to which a woman can return, again and again, throughout the unfolding chapters of her life.
An image made to hold presence. A portrait that anchors the emotional architecture of a room.
WHY THIS WORK EXISTS
There is a portrait of my wife hanging in our workshop. It got there because we were arguing about the room. In the middle of the disagreement, she walked over to a portrait I had made of her, and pinned it to the wall. For good measure, she wrote a sign pointing to it:
BOSS OF THIS ROOM.
And suddenly the argument was over. The sign was just the caption. She had claimed the room with that portrait. The photograph was the authority. That was the moment I understood that a real portrait does not merely honour someone. It positions them. That is the work I want to do. Not portraits as record. Portraits as standing.
A Portrait Resolved into Art
These portraits are created as finished pieces for the home. But their purpose is not merely decorative. The women who commission them are often marking something essential: a hard-won truth, a new chapter, a deeper understanding of themselves, or a way of being they wish to carry forward.
One client, Karen Luyendyk, hung a portrait in her home with her arms wrapped around her shoulders. She explained, “I chose this portrait to remind myself that now that I’m on my own, I am the one who needs to give myself love, first and foremost.”
For Nisha, the portrait remains on the workshop wall to this day, a reminder of her creative authority. It affirms her place in the room, her place in her work, and the confidence with which she claims that space.
Printed with museum-grade materials and designed to live on the wall for decades, these pieces are intended as personal artworks: enduring presences accompanying the unfolding of life.
“Every portrait becomes something different. For one woman it represents her strength. For another, her creative authority. For another, her capacity for love. Over time, it comes to embody something essential - and ultimately a legacy that carries her presence into the future.
The question is: what truth would you want yours to hold?"
- Nisha
“It holds years of sadness, happiness, and wisdom — all coming through in one image.”
-Judith
HOW IT WORKS
The Commission Arc
You commission the artist. The sitting follows. The portrait is made with intention, printed on cotton rag, framed, and delivered ready to hang. Nothing leaves the studio unfinished.
01
Your private portrait sitting with Jérôme — unhurried, guided, focused entirely on presence.
02
Your same-day Viewing — you see the work, you feel the work, you choose.
03
A finished, framed Monochrome portrait — printed on archival cotton rag, ready to hang.
THE ARTWORK PATH
The Monochrome Portrait
All finished photographic portraits resolve in monochrome. This is where light, expression, presence, and timelessness become the focus — a study in restraint.
The Color Concept
As part of the commission, one color concept is developed — not as a color print, but as a vision for what a Mixed Media artwork could become.
The Mixed Media Path
If you feel drawn to that direction, the concept can be realized as a one-of-a-kind Mixed Media artwork, created by hand over a 4–6 month process using photography, pigment, oil, and beeswax.
Your commission is honoured in full toward the realization of the Mixed Media artwork, should you choose to pursue it.
WHO IS IN THE PORTRAIT
A portrait may be made of you alone, or with the people whose lives are shaped by yours.
Your children. Your mother. Your spouse, or a sister. The people who make your life make sense. This is not a solo act unless you want it to be.
AVAILABILITY
MIAMI
Design District
A limited number of portrait sittings are available each month.
Each commission includes your private portrait sitting, a same-day Viewing, and a finished artwork created to live permanently in your home.
THE COMMISSION
$1500
The commission resolves as an intimate 12" square Monochrome portrait — printed on archival cotton rag, framed, and finished by hand.
During your Viewing, you are invited to consider the scale of the work. Scale is not about size. It is about the dignity and proportion an artwork must hold relative to the meaning it carries in your home.
If you feel a connection to this work, you’re welcome to leave your details below.
Nisha will reach out personally to continue the conversation.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jérôme is a portrait artist working in Monochrome and Mixed Media, with studios in Yorkville, Toronto and Miami Design District. His practice is commission-based.
The Mixed Media works are painted by Nisha — brought from Jérôme's photographic vision into encaustic by hand.
Every work begins with commissioning the artist. Each portrait resolves as a finished object — made to hang, made to last.
The portrait lives.