If you’re looking for an original piece of artwork, perhaps I can create a bespoke canvas or framed illustration for you? There are many reasons to commission work, some use it as an opportunity to celebrate a favourite location, illustrate a personal story or mark a special moment in their life… and they are often given as gifts for special occasions.
Below you will find recent examples of commissioned artwork for private individuals.
You can also read my rough guide to the commissioning process here.
Here’s a little Church commission I completed recently… the architecture of the Winchester Baptist Church has such lovely clean lines. The facade is a cool cream colour, but in the past has also been blue. The top of the columns have crisp white blocks with bold black lettering. Sadly the […]
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Another birds eye city view to share today! it’s another impression of Zurich, Switzerland with imagined rooftop views looking out into the cool lake. ‘View Over Zurich’ is a 70 x 50 cm feature canvas within a 74 x 54 cm floater frame.A previous attempt at this skyline, ‘Zurich Rooftops’, […]
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I have a nice peaceful mountainside commission to share with you. I liked the reasonably straightforward composition on this one… it has a lovely stillness to it with a big open blue sky.There’s plenty of interesting colour tones surrounding the building though with silvers and browns at the front of […]
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This is the first in what I hope will be a new series of ‘throwback Thursday’ posts, catching up on previous projects and key artworks that perhaps I didn’t have time to share previously. This painting was created for a private commission, to be given a special wedding gift. The […]
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I had a funny, but lovely, commission request recently for a traditional architecture & landscape scene to be given as a wedding gift. The subject was Highcliffe Castle in Dorset, the venue for a family wedding this August. Well this happens to be a place that I know extremely well, […]
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Here’s a colourful sunset to take your mind off a grey afternoon. It was created as a commission for a 70th birthday present. Titled ‘Sunset Over St Marys Lighthouse, Whitley Bay‘, it was painted with acrylic and ink on paper, mounted within a thin black 60 x 50cm frame. I’ve […]
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