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 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…
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 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…
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…
The painting of Checky was a birthday present to his owner Caitlin. She was celebrating her 21st birthday during the lock down in May. Her parents wanted to gift her something special and since Caitlin is ‘animal mad’ as they described her, they decided to commission portraits of her with…
Molly is a stray cat that visits my client on a regular basis and has become a part of her family so much that my client decided to commission a portrait of her. I worked on her painting back in June this year. I worked from one photograph for the…
This is a drawing of a gorgeous grey cat called Clementine or ‘Tiny’ for short. The portrait is 20 x 30 cm in size and I used graphite pencils and coloured pencils to create a tint in her eyes. Tiny sadly passed away last year and the client commissioned her…
This is a painting of Rocco, the tan Jack Russell dog. I worked on his portrait back in May. The painting is painted with acrylics on stretched canvas. It is 25 x 25 cm in size. The painting of Rocco was commissioned as a gift for his owner, the client’s…
This painting of Katy and Hank was commissioned a few months ago and travelled with Katy all the way to the US. It was commissioned as a birthday present to her from her partner Conor. The painting is 40 x 40 cm in size painted with acrylics on stretched canvas.…
I hope you are all keeping well and safe during these strange times. I am still working away on my commissions, so please don’t worry they will all be painted and drawn. There might be a slight delay in finishing work as I have my 6 year old daughter at…