Sheila was gifted these two portraits by her niece Orla who described her in a wonderful way when commissioning the portraits: The commissions are going to be for my aunt, Sheila. She is turning 70 this year. She is an absolutely amazing lady – incredibly special in every way. She doesn’t have any children of…
Category: portraits of couples
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…
A Portrait of a Young Family
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 drawing features my client’s sister Naomi, her partner Michael and their new baby boy Ryder….
Sinead and Stephan
A drawing of this lovely couple Sinead and Stephen was commissioned as a surprise wedding gift from their friends. The drawing is 30 x 30 cm in size drawn with graphite and charcoal pencils on paper. I had one photograph to work from for this portrait. The photo is from a beautiful part of south…
A Portrait of Parents and Their Dogs
This is one my recent commissioned family drawings. The couple in the portrait are my client’s parents, now deceased, and my client wanted a keepsake portrait of them to display in her home. Her mum Tess loved the outdoors, flowers and gardens. Her father Larry was a vet and the couple always had animals around…
Megan and Charles walking with their sheep
I worked on this painting in the autumn of 2022. It was commissioned as an engagement present for the couple in the painting, the client’s brother-in-law and his fiancee. The client provided me with one photograph to work from and another for a close up of the couple’s faces because they are captured quite far…
A Couple Portrait in Sardinia
A painting of a married couple bathing in the sea in Sardinia. This is an acrylic painting commissioned as a Christmas gift for the lady in the portrait. This was their second visit and holiday in Sardinia and Edward, my client, wanted to surprise his wife with a memory of the lovely times they shared….
A Wedding Anniversary Gift
I completed this painting just a week ago. Michelle, my client, contacted me to turn this beautiful image into a painting for her wife Katie. It is their first wedding anniversary at the end of the month and Michelle wanted to give her wife a unique gift. I just loved the photo. It captures such…
A Family Portrait of Four
I worked on this drawing back in July this year. It is a family portrait drawing of parents and their two children. Their children live in Australia and they don’t have a clear photograph of all four of them together. I worked from many different photos to create one composition. The challenge was to make…
Two portraits of parents
I worked on these two drawings in the beginning of July this year (2022). They were commissioned by a client in Douglas in county Cork. The drawings feature the client’s parents, one of both parents at a wedding and the other of just her father from the same setting. The first portrait was commissioned as…