Commissions

If you want me to paint something for you, send me an email using the yellow form on the About page.

I do portraits, but painting someone’s likeness is not what I do best. I prefer to do portraits of people by painting their home, their pets, belongings, as animals. I’ve done a few paintings of people as fish wearing suits. I’ve done a family portrait as a totem pole of favourite objects. There are lots of ways to do a portrait that don’t involve a really lifelike painting.

Other than portraits, the paintings I’m commissioned to make tend to fall into three categories:

Theme paintings

What I mean is a group of paintings connected by an idea. These dancers, for example. The idea here was swing dancing and being able to hang them upside down.

The originals hang in Ham Yard, in London, and you can buy prints of them in my shop.

Views

These might be imaginary or real landscapes, or views from a cafe, or anything along these lines. They have interesting small details that tell a story. An example is the painting above, called View of Lapa, which I painted sitting at the window of a friend's apartment. The view really looks like this, but I added some extra things to look at, like the rooms you can glimpse through the windows. 

Animal portraits

Just as with my portraits of humans, I don't make animal portraits look exactly lifelike, because I'm not that kind of painter. Instead I try to capture the character and liveliness of the animal. 

Above is a dog called Bill. He really does have eyebrows like that (see?).

I hope that’s helpful. Send me an email using the form on the contact page and I’ll get back to you.

David