What a commission looks like

Your photograph, painted in oil.

Pets, families, weddings, memorials, houses and landscapes — the full range the studio paints, all in oil on canvas, all worked up from a photograph.

These are example paintings, produced to show the subjects, styles and finish we work in — not photographs of individual customers' orders. Yours is painted from your own photograph, and we send you a photo of the finished canvas to approve before it ships.

Photograph, then painting

Drag the line and watch the photo become a painting.

Each pair below is the same subject in the same position — the reference photograph on the left, the finished oil on the right. Drag the handle, or focus a pair and use the arrow keys.

The reference photograph of a spaniel, before painting — SpanielPhoto → painting

The same spaniel hand-painted in oil on canvas — SpanielPhoto → painting

The reference photograph of a cat, before painting — CatPhoto → painting

The same cat hand-painted in oil on canvas — CatPhoto → painting

The reference photograph of a family group, before painting — Family groupPhoto → painting

The same family group hand-painted in oil on canvas — Family groupPhoto → painting

The reference photograph of a couple, before painting — CouplePhoto → painting

The same couple hand-painted in oil on canvas — CouplePhoto → painting

The reference photograph of a bride and groom, before painting — Wedding dayPhoto → painting

The same bride and groom hand-painted in oil on canvas — Wedding dayPhoto → painting

The reference photograph of a horse, before painting — HorsePhoto → painting

The same horse hand-painted in oil on canvas — HorsePhoto → painting

Your choice

One photograph, three ways.

The background is yours to decide. Below is the same snapshot — a spaniel on a kitchen floor — painted three different ways. Tell us which you want when you send the photo, or ask and we'll suggest one.

The reference photograph: a cocker spaniel on a kitchen floor — The photograph

Keep it
The room painted as it was — the kitchen, the light, the day it was taken.

Take it out
Background removed and replaced with a plain studio ground.

Change it
Somewhere else entirely — say the field they would rather have been in.

The rest of the work

Single paintings, by subject.

Pet Portraits

8 paintings

Dogs, cats, horses and the rest of the household.

Oil painting of a black and white border collie — Border collieOil on canvas

Oil painting of a French bulldog — French bulldogOil on canvas

The reference photograph of a ginger cat — Ginger catPhoto → painting

Oil painting of a ginger cat — Ginger catPhoto → painting

Oil painting of two dogs together in a single portrait — Two dogs togetherOil on canvas

Oil painting of a greyhound — GreyhoundOil on canvas

Oil painting of a spaniel standing in a field — Spaniel in a fieldOil on canvas

Oil painting of a parrot — ParrotOil on canvas

Oil painting of a pet rabbit — RabbitOil on canvas

Family & Portrait

5 paintings

One person, or a full room of them.

Oil painting of three generations of a family together — Three generationsOil on canvas

Oil painting of two young boys — Two boysOil on canvas

Oil painting of a newborn baby — NewbornOil on canvas

Oil painting of a large family group — Large family groupOil on canvas

Oil painting of a father and his daughter — Father and daughterOil on canvas

Wedding

3 paintings

The first dance, the portrait, the day itself.

Oil painting of a couple's first dance — First danceOil on canvas

Oil painting of a bride and groom, a formal wedding portrait — Bride and groomOil on canvas

Oil painting of a newly married couple outdoors — Couple outdoorsOil on canvas

Memorial

3 paintings

A portrait of someone you have lost, painted from a photograph.

Memorial oil painting of an elderly gentleman — GentlemanOil on canvas

Memorial oil painting of an elderly lady — LadyOil on canvas

Memorial oil painting of a serviceman in uniform — In uniformOil on canvas

House & Architecture

2 paintings

A first house, a family home, the place you keep going back to.

Oil painting of a terraced house — Terraced houseOil on canvas

Oil painting of a country cottage — Country cottageOil on canvas

Landscape

2 paintings

Coast, hills and water.

Oil painting of a coastal landscape — CoastOil on canvas

Oil painting of a landscape of lakes and hills — LakesOil on canvas

Begin yours

Send us your photograph.
We'll paint it by hand.

Hand-painted oil on canvas, delivered in about three to four weeks, plus delivery. From £220, with nothing to pay until you have seen the plan and said yes.

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