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This isn’t a pet related update per say but it is related to our art careers. My oil painting of my step-daughter Lucy called “Serenity” has been accepted and shown at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition at the prestigious Mall Galleries in London this year.

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We’re updating the website again. We should be really doing it more often but we’ve been very busy with work - both pet portraits and other projects outside of this website - and so as always this one is a big one :)

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We would like to share with you a Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II which I painted in the recent days to commemorate Her Majesty and her Reign.

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It seems like recently we have been mainly posting bigger updates! This has everything to do with the fact that we experience times where we are so busy that we just can’t find any time to update the blog. And then the longer those periods last and the longer we don’t do an update, the more portraits there are to get ready and include in the post and in the end we decide to leave it until we have a lot to share. BUT we are not complaining of course! We are very grateful for all the wonderful new work that comes our way!

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We have been swamped with commissions recently and we didn’t have time to update our blog and galleries for a while. So for this blog post we decided to chose a selection of our commissions from the past few months. We loved working on all of them! We have already put them in the galleries as well.

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Happy Easter everyone! Hope you have a lovely time!

We are planning on eating lot’s of chocolate eggs to compensate for not being able to see our families yet again at this time of year

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We would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! Lots of Health and Happiness! May the New Year bring us Peace and Joy!

Kate & Paul

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Very excited that we can finally share the news!

This lovely Paint&Draw book which includes my 16-page tutorial on painting a Berneese Mountain Dog (pictured on the cover) in oils is finally out (December 2020). It's already available in the UK and online…

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“Portrait of Tiddles” was ordered by Ian who wanted to surprise his brother Donald with a painting of his beloved cat on his 80th birthday. As Ian put it “Donald is besotted [with his cat] as is the cat with him”.

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Today we would like to share with you two portraits that we created very recently for the #portraitsfornhsheroes project started by a British artist Tom Croft where UK artists offered to create portraits of NHS key workers as a thank you for their work during the pandemic.

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Portrait of Lille was ordered by Daphne who lives in the US. Lille is a lovely Labradoodle and I knew I would have fun painting her from the start. She is such a character and it shows!

Daphne sent me quite a few photos but offered to also take some new ones based on my advice. They came out great and Daphne managed to capture

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As you probably know by now, recently Paul took part in Portrait Artist of the Year 2020. The episode that Paul was in was actually filmed a year before, so we had to keep it quiet for a really long time. It was aired on March 3rd 2020.

Having watched the show for years, it was great to see how the whole program is organized and see the backstage, talk to the judges (Kate Bryan, Tai-Shan Schierenberg and Kathleen Soriano), the presenters (Stephen Mangan and Joan Bakewell)

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We can now finally share that Paul will be in tomorrow’s Portrait Artist of the Year 2020 episode (airing 3rd March 2020)! We’re very excited! Here’s the self-portrait that he submitted for the show. We hope you enjoy watching the program! :)

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Hi everyone. Here are some of our latest drawings! To find out more about them please click on the gallery icons.

I’m hoping to post some of our finished paintings soon! At the same time we are constantly working on new commissions. Currently Paul is working on a portrait of cute Papillion dog and getting ready to

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Update on our latest oils! Here are one of our latest oil paintings. I have already shared the videos of them being varnished but I also wanted to share the proper, face on versions of the paintings. Portrait of Wynn & Rocky was ordered by Simon as a present for his wife.

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Our November/December commissions have been drawn, painted packaged, sent, and we’re now taking commissions for 2020. There is so so much to share but it takes time to prepare and we’re very busy working not only on our pet portraits but also on various other private commissions and book covers. So for now we’d like to share a short two videos of our latest oil commissions being varnished! :)

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PHEW! Hold onto your hats, we’ve got a long post for you, plenty of portraits to talk about.

We’re working on a number of exciting portraits right now: Kate is working on a painting of two beautiful Shar Peis in oils. The client ordered a 50x50cm size. It will be a while before we can share that because it’s going to be

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Kate recently finished two wonderful oil paintings. The first is of Lille. As Kate says:

“I’m close to finishing this painting of Lille, working on some final touches. Lille is such a graceful subject to paint. Daphne wanted her painted on plain background at first but as we went through many options and compositions,

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Here’s what we’ve been up to recently!
Paul has just finished his pencil portrait, which he framed in a beautiful wooden frame with a gold slip and white mount, and sent it to his client. I have finished the portait of Baxter and Ziggy which was a lot of fun to do and their owners love the final effect! They chose a lovely frame for it - one of my favourites - which

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