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- About The Artist -
Her Pet Portraits, Landscapes & Greeting Cards from Your Photos
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See more of my paintings on my other websites:-
www.petportraits.org - www.isabelclarkpaintings.freeserve.co.uk - www.icpetportraits.com
petportraits.go2click.com - pet-portraits.mybravenet.com - petportraits-by-isabel-clark.go2click.com
www.isabelclarkpaintings.com - www.icpaintings.com - www.petportraits-england.com
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Make Very Special Gifts or Cards.
If you do not have any clear, close up photos of your pet, take some NOW.
If you have a specific portrait request which I have not addressed, please feel free to ask.
I am a self employed artist working from home. My greatest loves are animals (pets and wild creatures), the environment, and painting animals in oils or watercolour, although I also very much enjoy painting, landscapes, flowers, people and buildings. I feel so lucky being able to combine the two great loves in my life - pet dogs, cats, indeed all pets, and wild animals, with my love of painting pet portraits and landscape paintings.
Having many pets of my own I know just how precious they are to us and what a special gift a portrait of a beloved pet is. Even more so when our pet has sadly died. Many of my commissions are memorials to much loved pets and they are a lasting tribute to a lost friend.
I also have many requests for pet portraits as Christmas gifts. If this is the case, please do get your pet portraits orders in well before December. I would hate to have to turn anybody down because it was too late. In fact, if you want the pet portrait for Christmas, send the order in right away. The important thing is to get that important Christmas order in for your Pet Portraits so you are at the front of the queue.
The majority of my commissions for pet portraits come through the mail and from many parts of the world - the USA, Canada, Australia, Continental Europe, Eire, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and my own country, England.
I need at least one CLEAR photograph of the subject you wish me to paint. The clarity of the photo is crucial to the quality of the finished portrait. A 6"x4" photo is quite large enough, so long as the subject is just about filling the frame and is clear and in focus. I need to see the small details of the subject so that the original and unique character of your pet, person or place is retained in the finished portrait.
Although I have painted for as long as I can remember, I obtained a BA (Honours) Degree in Fine Art from The Lanchester Polytechnic (Coventry University) in 1982, and have been working as a professional artist for many years now, painting pet portraits of dogs, cats and all animals.
I care very much about animal welfare, the natural environment and the sympathetic care of my Country's heritage. I love England and feel very passionately about the urgent need to care for the English countryside with it's various wildlife and wildlife habitats. It is only by caring for their habitats that some of our most pressured wild animals, birds and plants have any chance of flourishing. We should all do our best to alleviate some of the harm man has done and try to prevent further harm.
My Home
My home is a small house on the outskirts of Coventry, in the Midlands of England, where I live with my brother Reg, five rescue dogs (Percy, Mitzi, Quake, Tremor and Tarn), two cats (Rosa and Tansy) and little Titch, our female Teddy Bear Hamster and, as you can see from the website, I also have a soft spot for ducks.
I had a wild mallard duck for many years after she had been swept away from her mother in a violent storm. My son, who was about 13 years old, told the River Warden about the tiny duckling's plight, and was told him that he could have the duckling if he could get her as she would die without her mother. So, of course, what did my son do? Yes, he jumped into the river fully clothed and plucked her out of the water.
During the years we had "Me-Too", she went almost everywhere with us. I am afraid she had no idea she was a duck and cuddled up with the dogs to sleep.
My son Paul is now grown and he and his wife Jayne, live just around the corner from me, with my two young grandsons, Daniel and Jacob and their two rescue dogs.
Within a few yards of my home are woods and fields and the dogs have great fun romping through the trees and meadows. I have to take the same route each time because 2 of my dogs are blind and they have more confidence if they know where we are going.
One blind dog, Mitzi, is 15 and also deaf and very frail but insists on going for her walks. If she gets too tired, I carry her.
The other blind dog is Tremor. She, however, went blind very young and still has lots of energy. You could not tell she is blind from the way she plays with the other dogs and goes swimming in the pond. She does need a careful eye kept on her though, and a warning "MIND!" shouted if she is racing towards a tree, or a quick call if she has lost her bearings. When I have to shout "MIND!" to her, she skids to a stop immediately and then feels her way slowly until I shout the all clear signal which is "OK THEN!" Then she is off on her mad chases again.
Wild flowers, such as foxgloves, bluebells, primroses, meadow cowslips, ladies smock, buttercups, and violets, grow in abundance and the area is home to foxes, voles, fieldmice, moles, muntjac deer, owls, lapwings, pheasants, woodcocks, kestrels, peregrine falcons, bluetits, longtailed tits, bullfinches. There is also a wonderful variety of butterflies, assorted dragonflies and so many other birds and animals I couldn't possibly mention them all.
The nearby pond is also home to more animals, mallard ducks, moorhens, frogs, toads, great crested newts, stickle-back fish and assorted other water creatures and insects, some of which are quite rare.
One of my greatest pleasures is wandering through the meadows with my dogs, sketchbook in hand, watching the English spring scenery pass on into summer and autumn and then watch the autumn leaves fall before the first snows of winter. Nobody has to be rich to enjoy these pleasures but how poor are those who can find no pleasure in them.
Please do not hesitate to contact me for further details or samples of my work, or if you have any query or just want a chat.
If you want a really unusual and special gift for a pet or animal lover for Christmas, Birthdays, Thanksgiving, Easter, Anniversaries, Retirements, Presentations or any other celebration, a portrait of a beloved pet is always a unique and very welcome gift. Whether it is a dog painting, cat painting, horse painting, wild animal painting, bird painting, child or adult human painting or a painting of someone's home and garden, it will bring delight and surprise to the recipient.
Pet Portraits of Special Pets, People & Places make Special Gifts
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