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…
This is a portrait painting of Breffni Twohig (now Kelly), a cross country running athlete competing at the 2009 European Cross Country Championships in Dublin. Her father, Ronan, contacted me back in August to complete this portrait as a gift…
This is Roxy, the beautiful Springer Spaniel dog having a reflective time in a river surrounded by beautiful trees. This is a memory of a lovely pet I painted a couple of weeks ago. Roxy sadly passed away earlier this…
I have been working on a large painting of a cross country running race over the last week and it got me thinking I have been commissioned to create sports portraits on more than one occasion. I thought I will…
This is a montage drawing of four dogs owned by my client’s sister. They include, from left to right, Daisy the springer spaniel, Kiszy the black poodle, Trigger the long coat Dalmatian and Jack the retriever coonhound dog. I combined…
I wanted to let everyone know I am now in the process of accepting commissions for Christmas. Please don’t leave it till too late to avoid disappointment. I am available for pet portraits, family and people portraits and any unusual…
I have been collating some of my previous landscape, house and building commissions over the last few days. I put them together into a brand new page on my website’s Gallery. It includes paintings and drawings of places of wedding…
I painted this painting a few years ago, of a breathtaking mountain in county Donegal. It was painted for a friend of my husband’s and mine who visits Donegal on a regular basis. She climbed this mountain a few times…
A pencil drawing of a very unusually dark golden doodle called Salvador was commissioned by a client in Dublin. This pet portrait was a 40th birthday gift for Salvador’s owner, my client’s boyfriend. I worked on the drawing in August…
I was commissioned to create this lovely family portrait a few weeks ago back in August. John, the client, contacted me with quite a tight deadline for his wife’s birthday present. It was such a lovely photo, I couldn’t refuse,…