In March this year (2025) I was working away on this small acrylic painting of Bonnie the miniature schnauzer dog sitting at a beach in county Galway. She is pictured here watching over her owner Joanne who is swimming in the sea. Joanne, my client, asked me to paint this image for her husband. It…
Category: landscapes
Aine with Cassie and Millie at the Flaggy Shore in county Clare
This is an acrylic painting of Aine, a very happy owner of two golden retriever dogs called Cassie and Millie. I painted their portrait as a birthday gift commissioned by Aine’s husband Declan. My client contacted me last year and I completed the painting at the end of November. The painting is 40 x 80…
Dairy Herd on a Family Farm
I only finished on this landscape painting last week. It is of a beautiful farm in Dromcollogher in county Limerick Ireland and belongs to a lovely family. My client’s father who ran the farm for many years has retired this year and his children decided to gift him with an acrylic painting of his beloved…
Accepting Commissions now for Christmas 2024
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 place on my portrait list. I already have a few on that list this year….
Jerry and Matthew with their dog Lenny
This is one of those portraits with an unforgettable setting. I painted this portrait back in January this year. It portrays Jerry, the client’s husband, who was turning 50 in January this year. It was commissioned as a birthday gift for him to remember a very special family trip to Norway. He is pictured here…
Young Family in a Tuscan Landscape
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 distant hills to the foreground with the young family. I was commissioned to create this…
Brand New Gallery Page is Now Live!
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 receptions, wedding proposals, corporate buildings for office gifts, family homes as birthday or anniversary gifts….
Mount Errigal Mountain Art Prints
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 and the original painting is hanging in her living room. The painting is painted with…
A Proposal at Mahon Falls in county Waterfod
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 the bride’s sister. She wanted…
Ben the sheepdog on a boat
I was contacted by Ben’s owner at the end of 2022 about commissioning a painting of Ben who sadly passed away after many years with the family. He was almost blind, but managed very well and was very much loved by his owners. They wanted a memory of him in the form of a painting…