I work from my studio in Kilcock. It is a small room with shelves all around to put my finished and unfinished work onto. I like to give each work a few days to 'rest' before I completely finalise them and email my clients their portrait scans. On this page, you will find more information on how I work together with some progress photos and videos of my process. I discuss the materials I use and how I go about completing each piece of work. Because I work from photographs, I like to share them here too for comparison. You can subscribe to the blog and receive updates 3 to 4 times a month.
This is an acrylic portrait I painted back in autumn 2020. It was commissioned by the father in the painting as a present for his wife. The photo I worked from was taken in Bray, county Wicklow and you can see Bray head in the background. It was a selfie…
This is a project I worked on in September last year. The client was someone gifted with a drawing of her own pet from her sister last year. She loved it so much that she decided to commission drawings of her sister’s dogs Finn and Luna. Finn is the happy…
I created this portrait back in autumn 2020 as a present for the daughter of the man in the painting. It was commissioned by her husband. The portrait was a very special and personal gift. It is painted with acrylics on stretched canvas at 40 x 30 cm. I had…
This drawing is one of the pet portraits I worked on last year and just never got a chance to put up on the blog. I completed it in June 2020. It is of Daisy the beagle and Elsa the doberman. Both dogs are deceased and Elaine, my client, wanted…
This is the first commission I worked on in 2021 and it was very enjoyable. There is something about old photographs that I just love interpreting on paper. Graphite works so well to translate old photographs to an artwork. This one is of a man looking over his shoulder. The…
This pencil drawing is of a father and son at the son’s graduation. It was drawn based on one reference photograph and was commissioned as a 30th birthday gift. It was commissioned by the young man’s girlfriend. She wanted to give him something special for his big birthday. The drawing…
This is a portrait of Bob, the beautiful tabby cat whose portrait was commissioned as a Christmas present. Bob was sadly killed on the road last year and the client commissioned his painting as a gift for his wife. They both miss Bob terribly and wanted a keepsake of him…
This painting was commissioned as a wedding anniversary present for the bride in the photo. The couple would have celebrated their 40th anniversary in summer 2020 but her husband sadly passed away the year before. Her children decided to gift their mom a special present of a painting of one…
After a long break I am writing here again. I have been so busy over the past two months working on your commissions. There have been many, drawings and paintings alike, of all sorts of subjects, landscapes and even houses. This year has been a very strange sort of year…
I drew this portrait based on one photograph taken at a soccer stadium. The client is one of the boys and he commissioned this drawing as an 18th birthday gift for his brother. It was a sentimental photograph and I wanted to capture the connection the two brothers share in…