Welcome friend. Below you’ll find my heart and soul, poured, scraped, collaged and dripped onto canvas. I truly believe they each have a home – and it’s time for them to go where they belong. I can’t wait to tuck them into tissue paper and send them home!

PS: Prices range from $20 to $120. Feel free to email me at jessica.brogan@gmail.com if you have a question, or would like to commission a piece.

PPS: To purchase, simply scroll down below the images of the Painting that you want, and Click the “BUY NOW” button. You can pay with a Credit Card via PayPal, easy – peasy!

Bursting Forth

6 x 6 inches (1 in. gallery sides)

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A Wish For You

8 x 10 inches


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 Today’s Instructions

5 x 5 inches (1 in gallery sides)

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Secrets of the Heart

11 x 14 inches

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Making Kindness Matters

8 x 10 inches

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You Are Stronger Than You Know

8 x 10 inches

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Your Wings Emerge

11 x 14 inches

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April: Rocked, Recorded

Yes, it is the middle of May (Shiiiit, how did we get here??) Nonetheless, I committed to myself at the beginning of 2013 that I would keep record of what this year entailed, since last year is such a blur. A beautiful, ohmygoodnesslifeisgood blur, but a blur nonetheless. So here I am, mostly for myself, but also to give you a little peek into my life!

In the Personal Life:

- It’s utter craziness that I did not touch an art supply for the entire first three months of the year. In March I started something I’m calling my “Treasure Book.” I’ve been collecting little treasures for about five years. Not a huge collection, because I’m picky. It started in Switzerland, where I found a fancy vintage postcards that I couldn’t let slip by. Then I began keeping bits of ephemera: vintage lace, scraps of colored papers I love, buttons or stamps.  And for five years, I’ve collected them and carried them around in a box and moved them across the ocean and never had ANY idea what I was doing this for. At the end of March and on into April, I suddenly felt compelled to put these treasures into a compilation. I decided to use a vintage photo album, and inspired by a book I saw at Christine Mason Miller’s house, I created a “lookbook” of my treasures. Interestingly, despite the extremely gratification I felt in making it, in making art, I spent a lot of quiet time internally processing what it takes to make a piece of art, or an album of your favorite scraps of paper, just to do it. Like, with no real purpose. The purpose, in fact, is incredibly deep: for sheer pleasure. But that is something that I think a lot of us struggle with when we set out to create. Perhaps the mark of a true “artist,” if there is one at all, is that s/he can create without justifying, explaining and creates for the feeling it gives alone.

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I spent a significantly long week or so with a very sick kiddo. He got the flu, which dehydrated him, which led us to the ER where he discovered that drinking his beverages out of a syringe is the.most.fun! Do you remember being a kid and figuring out that you could trap the soda in the straw with your finger, and then wanting to drink the entire drink that way? Yeah, me too. Thankfully after just a good dose of anti-nausea medicine, Liam was back in action. And then momma promptly crumbled into a heap when she realized she had three healthy kids to take care of for an entire weekend alone!

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In the Biz Realm: 

- I saw my first magazine article + photos published nationally, in Somerset Life. Just last week I actually went and saw the magazine in person (they’d sent a copy to my home already) and it was SUCH a cool feeling!

- I designed an Empowering Art Workshop and then met with one of the coordinators at Austin’s Safe Place (Domestic Violence Shelter) to discuss facilitating these workshops for their victims. She and I clicked on so many levels, shared our own stories and both of us shed a tear during our simple hour meeting. Love that.

- Worked out an entire Site Map + Branding thesis for my first website. Worked with the awesome designer and started on my first ever logo!

- Organized all of the 100 Inspirational Decks for the current swap. Mixed them all up, packaged, labeled and sent them back out into the world!

- Started the “From Trauma to Truth” campaign and coordinated the first 4 entries that have come in

- Began an intensive online course called Fearless Launching

- Had a juicy hour long conversation with a most favorite person and worked out a bunch of math/numbers and details for our retreat next April!! This carried me around in a cloud for a good few days afterwards!

- Wrote my contributor Bio for True North, made a list of magazine article pitches for May, emptied my inbox (holla!) and compiled list of guest posts contributions for the next month!

- Worked with various clients on progressing their small creative business endeavors

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Spring has Sprung

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A gift for Sandyhook.

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Earlier this year, 25 amazing women joined me in creating a collaborative gift of peace for the families of the Newtown, Connecticut school massacre. In the spirit of the original Inspirational Deck Swap I run, we each created 26 cards. Each creator had a single poignant and powerful quote that offered solace or support to someone grieving and in pain. Then, of course, they mailed their cards to me. I mixed them up, as usual, so that there were piles of 26 packages and each package contained 26 unique, hand-made cards, with a special quote. I don’t know how I would have packaged them, ultimately, because I never had to think of it. One our participants, the thoughtful Linda Thiltgen, made 26 small felt pouches by hand, adorned with a single red heart, and containing a single glow-in-the-dark star. I shed tears when I opened the box and saw them, months ago now, and I shed tears when I stuffed each pouch with these amazing works of heart this week.

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There’s no particular timing for why they’ve gone out now, last week. We finished the projet in January. I was delayed by a move. I got word that they were shutting down the mailing storage site because it was overflowing, and that the families were no longer taking packages. I waited, in hopes that time would pass and our package would arrive with less company. For whatever reason, they were ready, last week. I had a new address to use and I felt it was time. I believe in divine timing and in intuition. I don’t know for sure that the packages will make it to each of the 26 families who lost someone that day. But we can pray, and if we don’t pray, we can say what it is we need to say to the Universe, over the box, at the post office, about arriving when and where they need to be. I just started praying again recently, so I did both. I felt a sense of honor and real peace sending this box out to these families. I do hope they’ll make it to the families. But in the meantime, I’m in awe of the 25 other ladies who came together, at the drop of an idea on Facebook, to create these. They have put real energy – positive energy – out into a world that desperately needs it.

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Take heart.

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