Every time I draw or paint a portrait of someone I feel a real connection to them as I spend a good amount of time looking at the emotion and character on their face and how they hold their body. I feel like I can get a real sense of their personality and what they’re feeling in the moment. This was my first maternity portrait and I found it such a tender moment between a mother and her unborn child. It really moved me. I was lucky to have such a gorgeous model who posed so elegantly showing the tenderness and strength of the pregnant female form. Thank you so much Montahna. You are going to be an amazing mother.

If you’re interested in commissioning me to paint or draw a portrait of yourself or a loved one please click here to contact me.

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You’d just have to send me a photo of yourself or someone else who you think would be an amazing goddess and then we could talk about favourite colours or textures or themes that you’d like to include in your goddess portrait! Amazing right!!!

I’ve got a million goddessing ideas for your portrait that I think would look beautiful so if you’re not really sure what you’d want I can show you a few different things that I think would work really well. Just a thought…Let me know if you’re interested.

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A friend of mine commissioned me to paint a huge wall visible from the front door, through the hallway, into her dining/kitchen area. She told me that she’s been wanting me to paint a mural for her before she even bought her house so to do whatever I want. I thought I’d better get a basic concept from her first to be safe. So she told me that she loves art deco, flowers and colourful Mexican stuff. With that, I started brainstorming.

In the end, I decided to do an art deco, geometric pattern in gold all over the wall and then I painted some huge flowers in fun Mexican colours. It’s completely transformed the whole look of the house! I’ve also become obsessed with golden geometric patterns. It’s like the wall is always changing because as you walk around different parts of the golden pattern shine and attract your eyes to another part of the flower painting.

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This project came about because The Hen has a HUGE marquee on their beautiful property which is used for weddings, as a music venue, comedy acts and just a nice shaded spot to sit with a drink on a sunny afternoon. The only problem was that it was looking a bit stark being such a big white space so they enlisted me to inject a bit of colour with some art work.

There were a lot of ideas flying around as to what the paintings should be of, but the main components which reflected the venue were greenery, music, fun and of course hens! So I decided to paint a whole range of influential musicians in a pop art style with greenery around  them and then to add a bit of humour I added a chook to each of the iconic images.

I’m really happy with the outcome and I think the punters are too. I visited The Hen for lunch with my family yesterday and I was really excited to see that people were pointing and taking photos of my work and I was told that they’re a real focal point of the venue.

I’d like to say a special thank you to The Hen for showcasing my work in such a beautiful environment.

If you’d like to go and view them for yourself The Henley Brook is located at 9810 West Swan Road, Henley Brook, WA.

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