An inner portrait is to surrender to the beauty within you.

Antoinette's movement into drawing inner portraits was nothing tentative: "I knew this is what I was going to do." A life dedicated to commercial illustration changed in May 1992 when Toni Martignoni was asked by a friend to be the artist at a psychic fair in Pennsylvania. She drew inner portraits for more than 20 fair attendees that weekend, creating portraits that "spoke to them."

Since that first experience, Antoinette has drawn more than 700 unique and revealing inner portraits for men, women, couples, children, and families. People have returned over the years for numerous inner portraits at junctures in their life journey to explore, and at times to celebrate, transitional events.

Antoinette asks you to pause...

"We sit quietly for a few minutes, in person or on the phone. In that silence, I see a story about you that takes an hour to draw in full color. Then we look at the images-- images of your real nature, of your true inner beauty-- and explore their meanings."


and gives hope and inspiration... We hope you'll read the Portrait Stories on this web site where you will have the rare opportunity to learn about the meaning people have found in their portraits. Over the years and through several inner portraits, people have learned more about their own inner beauty and the beauty in their loved ones.