This is a painting of a young man holding his puppy golden retriever dog. Rufus sadly passed away of leukaemia in February 2022. Him and his owner, my client’s partner, were very close. This portrait was commissioned as a birthday gift in February this year (2025). I worked at a small intimate size of 20…
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Tanya the Russian Wolfhound
This painting of beautiful Tanya was commissioned by clients I created a few paintings for to date. They are very keen dog lovers and show their dogs in dog shows. Their dogs are often very unusual and specially well looked after. Tanya sadly passed away late last year after almost 12 happy years living with…
Daisy and Elsa on the beach
This drawing is one of the pet portraits I worked on last year and just never got a chance to put up on the blog. I completed it in June 2020. It is of Daisy the beagle and Elsa the doberman. Both dogs are deceased and Elaine, my client, wanted to gift this portrait to…
Dogue du Bordeaux ‘Rua’
Rua’s portrait was such an interesting painting I got to complete back in January. It was a wide landscape format in 30 x 60 cm size and I used acrylics on stretched canvas. Rua passed away sadly in autumn 2019 and the client, Rua’s owner wanted to commission a portrait of her as a keepsake….
Cuan the Irish Wolfhound
I worked on Cuan’s portrait a few weeks ago. She is a beautiful Irish Wolfhound puppy. This is how the client described her: She’s an almost 6 month old puppy. She can be a little excitable but I’m sure a lot tamer than most puppies. She’s very obedient, always wanting to please. Can be a…