I began the year 2026 with a really interesting project: a colourful portrait painting of a couple – I know I created many of these before – but this time was very different. The photo I was given as a…
This is a drawing that was commissioned as a Christmas gift for the gentleman in the photo. His wife sadly passed away and their children decided to gift their father a memory of them two outside their home, which they…
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…
I painted this lovely family portrait of Ann-Marie and her husband Eugene with their lovely son Henry in July this year. They took a family trip to Carvoeiro in the Algarve in southern Portugal earlier in 2025. Eugene was celebrating…
I drew a portrait of Sinead and Stephen holding their baby girl Roisin back in January this year. This was my first commission of 2025. It was commissioned by a client I worked with a few times before. He is…
I was commissioned to create this painting as a Christmas gift for a couple that got married in the summer of 2024. The scenery the wedding photographs were taken is just breathtaking. I found it very inspiring and enjoyed every…
I finished on this painting only a couple of weeks ago. It is a 40 x 30 cm sized acrylic painting of a very happy jockey sitting on her horse with her partner and pet bichon frise dog Peanut at…
This is another wedding portrait I created a few weeks ago. It was commissioned as a wedding gift for the couple in the portrait by their friends. The painting is 40 x 30 cm in size painted with acrylics on…
I always enjoy recreating vintage and old black and white photographs. They translate really well on paper in graphite pencil. The pencil seems to bring in a certain depth and texture to the traditionally taken images. These two drawings were…
I created this portrait to mark a one year wedding anniversary of the beautiful couple pictured. It was a gift to the bride in the image commissioned by Andrew, the groom. He wanted to gift his wife something a little…
I drew this beautiful family last month before Easter. Sean is a client who contacted me back in January. I created a portrait drawing of him and his wife in 2020. The first drawing was an image from their wedding…
Tuscany is one of those places that cannot be confused with any other. It is so picturesque, sometimes too much so and so easy to get sucked in when painting it. I thoroughly enjoyed this painting process though, from the…