Commission: posthumous portrait of Olav Bratli
January 8, 2024
"Stella was extremely professional and sensitive – and we are absolutely delighted with the results" Commissioner N Rayner
Commission: retiring vicar of St Milburga Beckbury
September 7, 2023
It's been a joy to be asked to create a digital painting of Keith, the much appreciated and now missed vicar of St Milburga church in Beckbury, Sa...
The art of storytelling
September 3, 2022
'A Life Well Lived' runs at the Ealing Project, Ealing Broadway till Tuesday
The story of a commission via the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
June 23, 2022
Of Kasmira & Chandra Naik in traditional dress for their 50th wedding anniversary
Hello young lovers: wedding day portraits
February 12, 2022
Have your wedding day immortalised in a portrait.
Musician art: The Phantoms have found a new home!
November 30, 2021
Drummer's partner gifts him his portrait
Musician art: Jump Lead - my first album cover commission!
November 22, 2021
Digital painting original prints perfect keep sakes of farewell gig for band...
Latest portrait commission!
August 10, 2021
The story of a commission of Barbara Wichmann, to mark a new life in Cornwall.
NEW! Digital portraits
August 8, 2021
A new, cheaper option for painted portraits - digital painting.
Recommendations
February 23, 2021
What portrait commissioners thought of the experience.
Family portrait commission: the artistic process
November 12, 2020
After having met the family for one sitting, seen where the portrait would hang and discussed the pose and what they'd wear, work began to note their skin tones, personalities, gesture. After taking and agreeing on photos to be used, I return to my home studio, where the work to created the portrait in earnest begins...
Portrait: George Alagiah OBE
June 30, 2020
The story of my 2014 portrait of the BBC journalist and television news presenter George Alagiah.
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