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Another Grace Kelly Portrait
Sometimes, when the stars align, I get commission requests to draw my favourite faces, and I love my job so intensely, I can barely breathe
My Most Popular Celebrity Portraits of 2022
I never know what to expect when I cast a furtive eye on my previous year’s work. I decided to have a look through my clients’ perspective, and see what you all liked most, and what you chose to buy for yourselves, or to gift your loved ones at Christmas. It appears there was a theme to my bestsellers, and it was decidedly royalty
New Magazine Interview: Be Artist
Be Artist Magazine in France have sat me down for an eight-page interview, which I had great fun doing, in spite of my being notoriously lone-wolf-like.
Pencil Portrait of a Young Queen Elizabeth II
Sometimes – not often – you open an email and it feels like all your Christmas mornings wrapped up in one and tied with a red velvet bow. That’s what it was like reading this commission request from B. in America
Nude Study vs. Censorship
It’s no secret that I find censorship of the human, and especially female body, an abomination and an absurdity
Elvis Presley Pencil Portrait
Elvis. So much has been written, drawn, painted, filmed. All that was left for me to do was to do the only thing I do well: strip a few layers of mythology off this boy and find something pure and accessible
About Me: The Director’s Cut
It just occurred to me that nobody who follows my work knows anything about me (other than what is on my About Me page, of course). I’ll tell you why that is
Commissions: Child Custom Pencil Portrait
Fresh off the press, this is one of my favourite commissions I’ve ever done. Special thanks to the little one’s Dad for having a very precise vision for her portrait
Commissions: Portrait for Social Media Branding
When Monica from Brazil wrote to ask for a commission which would serve as a social media branding tool, I could almost hear the angels sing and the creative floodgates opening
Diana Ross Portrait
I’ve been thinking of drawing her for years and years, but she’s not an easy one to capture. I needed to make sure I caught her defiant spirit, her self-assuredness, her complete confidence in her power and beauty