After leaving college, at the age of nineteen, I worked as a textile designer for seventeen fabulous years, creating hundreds of original designs and thousands of colourways, for a company that supplied mattress tickings and duvet sets to the bedding industry.
Five years after becoming a mother, I decided to take a job as an Arts & Design Technology Technician in a large secondary school on the outskirts of Manchester. Seeing my people portraits and continuous attendance of Stockport Art Guild's portrait evenings, in 2012, a colleague at the school asked me to paint his mother in law's dog, and ever since then, I've been completely hooked! š¶ š
I have painted pet portraits in all kinds of media, but most recently, in lockdown 2021, I closed the commissions book down for a few months so I could totally concentrate on developing my skills in the ancient art of traditional, kiln-fired glass painting. I took an online course by Williams & Byrne, (alongside studying the works of various master crafters), and joined The British Society of Master Glass Painters.
When Iām not painting people's pets, Iām slowly filling my Etsy shop with flowers, leaves, birds, butterflies and bees. šŗ š
DO get in touch if you'd like a portrait for yourself or a friend!
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Click on this link to go to the Etsy shop: DogPortraitsUk.Etsy.com
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