I just love working with old photographs! I enjoy capturing the colour and lighting only achieved with an analogue camera, no digital perfection, just expression. Portraits based on vintage photos have featured in my commissions list, many as gifts to…
This is a painting I created back in June this year 2026. It was a commission for a birthday gift for the mum in the portrait. This happy family portrait is a memory of a lovely day climbing the Ticknock…
I was asked by a teacher in this lovely girls secondary school in Limekiln Dublin 12 to create a drawing of the building. It was commissioned as a retirement gift for the current Principal who is retiring. It is a…
This was a somewhat unusual commission for a pet portrait for me. I usually work in a realistic and detailed style. My client, Fiona, contacted me however to create a dog portrait in the style of Maud Earl’s pet paintings…
First of all, let me wish you all a very Happy New Year 2026. I hope it is a good one with lots of love, happiness and joy. I also want to thank all of my subscribers and followers for…
In June this year I was contacted by Melissa about commissioning a pencil drawing of her friends’ engagement. They were getting married in a couple of weeks and she needed my to create something quite fast. I usually have a…
This painting is one of many landscape paintings I worked on to date. It is painted from a photograph taken from the Killarney Lake Hotel overlooking the Killarney Lakes. It not only features the lakes themselves but also a beautiful…
I painted a portrait of PJ and his cattle a couple of months ago just before the summer. His portrait was a commission from his daughter-in-law. This was a birthday gift for PJ’s son, my client’s husband. Jayme, my client,…
I was commissioned to paint Hank for his family a few months ago. He is a blond coloured prized bull that was kept as a pet by his family on a farm in Leamlara in county Cork. He sadly passed…
I was commissioned to paint an aerial view of the Clanard Court Hotel a couple of months ago. The hotel is family owned and the painting was a gift for the family that set up the hotel 20 years ago…
In March this year (2025) I was working away on this small acrylic painting of Bonnie the miniature schnauzer dog sitting at a beach in county Galway. She is pictured here watching over her owner Joanne who is swimming in…
This is an acrylic painting of Aine, a very happy owner of two golden retriever dogs called Cassie and Millie. I painted their portrait as a birthday gift commissioned by Aine’s husband Declan. My client contacted me last year and…