I drew a portrait of Sinead and Stephen holding their baby girl Roisin back in January this year. This was my first commission of 2025. It was commissioned by a client I worked with a few times before. He is from Cork in south Ireland and commissioned a portrait of Sinead and Stephen on their…
Category: portraits of couples
Chiara and Shane’s Wedding Day
I was commissioned to create this painting as a Christmas gift for a couple that got married in the summer of 2024. The scenery the wedding photographs were taken is just breathtaking. I found it very inspiring and enjoyed every minute painting this gorgeous couple. The forest behind brings some interesting light I felt. The…
A winning jockey and her family
I finished on this painting only a couple of weeks ago. It is a 40 x 30 cm sized acrylic painting of a very happy jockey sitting on her horse with her partner and pet bichon frise dog Peanut at her side. This painting was commissioned by a client in county Kilkenny. I simplified the…
Bride and Groom in a Painting
This is another wedding portrait I created a few weeks ago. It was commissioned as a wedding gift for the couple in the portrait by their friends. The painting is 40 x 30 cm in size painted with acrylics on medium grain canvas. My clients emailed me one photograph to work from. It was taken…
Two Vintage Drawings
I always enjoy recreating vintage and old black and white photographs. They translate really well on paper in graphite pencil. The pencil seems to bring in a certain depth and texture to the traditionally taken images. These two drawings were based on family photos, one taken in the fifties and the second in the eighties….
A Wedding Day Portrait
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 unusual and special to mark their first anniversary celebration. Carol, the gorgeous wife in the…
Sinead and Sean with their baby son Shay
I drew this beautiful family last month before Easter. Sean is a client who contacted me back in January. I created a portrait drawing of him and his wife in 2020. The first drawing was an image from their wedding day. Sean wanted to commission another portrait at the same size of 40 x 40…
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…
Roseanne and John with their baby son Jackson and pet dog Lady
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, so I worked really hard to get it finished in time for Roseanne’s birthday at…
Wedding Couple Lighting Candles
I worked on this pencil drawing a couple of weeks ago. The couple’s 30th wedding anniversary is coming up this Monday, the 7th August 2023. They were married back in 1993 and their son Eoin commissioned me to create their wedding anniversary gift in the form of a pencil drawing. The drawing is from one…