Julia contacted me a couple of months ago about a custom commissioned portrait for her mother. This gift was to be a very special memory of her uncle Greg, her mother’s brother. A photo of him hung framed in her…
I painted a few whippet portraits in the past. You can search for some of them on this blog to see how they turned out. This is another small sized painting I worked on just before Christmas. I am only…
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…
I drew this county Monaghan wedding before Christmas 2025. The drawing was a commissioned portrait given to the couple in the photo as a Christmas gift. My client, Jennifer, wanted me to capture her cousin and her new husband on…
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 this pencil sketch based on a photograph taken in a hospital. The two hands holding are those of a mother and daughter. My client, the daughter’s friend, commissioned this drawing after her friend’s mother passed. It was a…
This portrait was commissioned as a first birthday present from a client whom I completed a couple of portraits for previously. The little boy in the photo is Teddy and in his original photo, he is sitting up in a…
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 was commissioned to paint this man’s portrait by his son who is living in the US. He asked me to create this portrait late last year. It is of his father, who sadly passed away in 2022. I posted…
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…
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…