painting Archives * Portrait Artist

Portrait of George Best “The Best Ever Footballer”

https://www.manutd.com/en/players-and-staff/detail/george-best Arguably the greatest player in British football history. Belfast-born Best was already a Manchester United and Northern Ireland star aged 17. Dubbed ‘El Beatle’ by Portuguese press reporters in 1966 after United beat Benfica 5-1 in Lisbon, Best’s fashion sense and Beatle haircut saw him emerge as the first ‘pop-star’ footballer. The leading scorer…

Girl With The Pearl Earring

Johannes Vermeer It depicts an imaginary young woman in exotic dress and a very large pearl earring. The work permanently resides in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague. Girl with a Pearl Earring, oil on canvas by Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665; in the Mauritshuis, The Hague. I have been learning from the old masters and…

Nude Portrait Commission Done!

Photographer Ian Morrish commissioned a painting of his wife Jane. It was a fabulous piece. I have worked on nudes, life drawings and paintings however this was a first for me in terms of a full blown commission. I used a combination of media. I sketched the image first and then used acrylic to get…