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.
I worked on this pencil drawing a couple of weeks ago. The couple’s 30th wedding anniversary is coming up this Monday, the 7th August 2023. They were married back in 1993 and their son Eoin commissioned me to create their wedding anniversary gift in the form of a pencil drawing.…
This is one of the latest paintings to come off my easel. The painting features Edel, my client’s wife, whom I painted already at her wedding day. You can view her painting on my blog here. Since I painted her, Dave and Edel had a little girl whom they called…
Tom Parlon is a well known man in Ireland, having been involved in politics, serving as a TD for the Laois-Offaly constituency and a Minister of State at the Department of Finance. He recently retired from his last position as the president of the Construction Industry Federation of Ireland. It…
Sheila was gifted these two portraits by her niece Orla who described her in a wonderful way when commissioning the portraits: The commissions are going to be for my aunt, Sheila. She is turning 70 this year. She is an absolutely amazing lady – incredibly special in every way. She…
This is a painting of a wedding proposal at Mahon Falls in county Waterfod in the south east of Ireland. I was commissioned to create this landscape portrait a few months ago. The painting was given as a gift to the couple at their engagement party. It was commissioned by…
These are two portrait drawings I worked on a few weeks ago in May 2023. I was commissioned by the little boy’s father to create these portraits for his wife’s birthday. He wanted me to capture two very special moments, each capturing the baby boy with his lovely grandmothers, one…
I completed this portrait only a few weeks ago in spring 2023. It was for a client returning to me for another commission. I created a number of drawings of her family, her sister and brother and their families. This drawing features my client’s sister Naomi, her partner Michael and…
A drawing of this lovely couple Sinead and Stephen was commissioned as a surprise wedding gift from their friends. The drawing is 30 x 30 cm in size drawn with graphite and charcoal pencils on paper. I had one photograph to work from for this portrait. The photo is from…
This is one my recent commissioned family drawings. The couple in the portrait are my client’s parents, now deceased, and my client wanted a keepsake portrait of them to display in her home. Her mum Tess loved the outdoors, flowers and gardens. Her father Larry was a vet and the…
Back in September 2022, I was contacted by a client from a local area. Mary and her siblings wanted a special gift for their Mum’s birthday and they decided on commissioning me to create a pencil drawing of their Dad. He sadly passed away not long ago, only last year…