I would like to welcome you to my pet portrait website and start by giving you a brief introduction to my art and animal history and experience. After school, I studied at Bournemouth college of Art and Design. It was here I was first able to combine my love of animals and wildlife with study and illustration. It was also where I started undertaking pet portraits, after friends and relatives saw the ones I had painted of my own animals. This developed as a way of helping to pay for my studies and now after many years of painting pet portraits, this website is allowing me to reach a wider audience.

After I completed a B.T.E.C at Bournemouth in Natural History Illustration, I went on to study Scientific and Medical Illustration at Middlesex University, where I completed a degree course. Therefore, with an understanding of anatomy, I became driven to continue very detailed work, which in turn, helps me to bring about pet portraits that have a true likeness to the animals I paint, helping to capture the essence of that special friend.

This website aims to provide information to people who wish to capture forever, the beauty and personality of the special friends in their lives. Whether a dog, cat, horse or anything furry! I can professionally complete a painting for you in your choice of size and medium. For example watercolour, graphite, or pastel. Watercolour is usually the most popular for pet portraits. Whatever your preference, I am always happy to produce your own pet portrait in any of these mediums.

Please enjoy the website, and I hope that you will be inspired to commission me, Joanna, to produce art for you. You will find information and guidance on how to request a commission for a pet portrait or piece of wildlife or animal inspired art. You will find the process easy and I can assure you, that working with me, you will receive a professional service.

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