Portrait Portfolio

Dedicated to grandparents everywhere.

Have your wedding day immortalised in a portrait.

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...

Ben and Sacha with their abstract expressionist father Frank Bowling's 'Cover Girl' for the Lots Road Group exhibition ‘Connected: the changing face of Britain’.

 How a portrait can memorialise a special moment for a special occasion

How a portrait can memorialise a special moment.

Robert Nisbet Sky News Correspondent and partner lawyer Alexis Mavrikakis. The story of a 'non conventional' double oil portrait commission that hints at their shared history.

 The story of a family portrait in oils from conception to unveiling

The story of my painting of ‘Mum and me’ for the first Lots Road Group of portrait painters exhibition 'Motherhood'.
Oil on canvas.

Three separate portraits in oils made at three separate times to celebrate three of the most important people in my life, son John-Paul and daughter Jasmine and niece Holly.

Portrait in oils of Lynne, my sister Lorna and Godfather's son Simon.  Childhood remembrances that evoked shared memories in the viewer...

Autobiographical portraits have a universal feel that stretches across the years to remind us of our own pasts.