I was commissioned to draw a pencil illustration of the old school building back in January this year. The drawing was gifted to the school Secretary who retired earlier this year. The school is a beautiful historic building built in…
It is getting closer to that time of year when everyone starts thinking about gifts for the special day. I know it is only September but I get very busy coming up to Christmas and ordering early means securing a…
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 recently finished on a pencil drawing of a family home. It was commissioned by the owners’ daughters as a 30th wedding anniversary present. Their mum always wanted a portrait of her house and I can see why. The house…
I have been asked a number of times to create drawings and paintings of houses, buildings and landscapes. I even painted a construction site! I always welcome the challenge and enjoy working on urban landscapes sometimes to break the routine…
Sometimes, an unusual commission pops up and it is very exciting to work on something different. I completed this painting a couple of weeks ago for a client in county Limerick. The painting is of a building site and there…
This painting was commissioned as a retirement gift to a professor by his colleagues. The streetscape is of the Museum Building on the Trinity College campus in the Dublin City Centre. The painting is 30 x 40 cm in size…
I was commissioned to draw this building as a keepsake for the client and his wife. The drawing was drawn with graphite pencils on paper to the size of 30 x 40 cm. I removed some elements from around the…