animal portraits by jane maher
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Working from detailed photographs, I paint watercolour portraits of your favourite animal.TRANSCRIPT
Animal Portraits by Jane Maher
Portraits that capture the character of your horse, dog or cat
Welcome to the first catalogue of my art.
I hope you will be inspired browsing
through it.
I have chosen a variety of subjects, from
small hairy dogs to magnificent competition
horses. I have also been persuaded to do
human portraits, and even a study of a
beautiful Italian villa!
I particularly love painting all animals, and
to me the challenge is to capture that
element of their character that is unique
and memorable.
I usually paint in watercolour, sometimes
with added gouache. On occasion i have
used pen and wash or pencil, and there
are examples of both included here.
I work from photographs which if
possible, I would rather take
myself. This allows me to meet
the subject concerned which
helps portray him better in the
final painting. Of course this is
not always possible, in which
case I can work from good clear
photographs provided by you.
Please do not hesitate to contact
me if you would like to discuss my
work or if you would like to
commission a portrait.
Thank you for looking
Jane
t. 07787 505518
‘Mac’
A magnificent warmblood who competed at
Blenheim 3* eventing, and now has a successful
showing career as a veteran
‘Tor’ Tor starred in ‘Black Beauty’ in his youth.
He is now retired in the lap of luxury –
and looks as good as ever
‘Lucky’ A beautiful dressage horse with a kind eye
The watercolour head portrait is framed by two
pen and wash studies of him in action
I visited Lucky and took photographs of his
head for the portrait, and used competition
photographs for the action pictures
‘Nobby’ Winner of the South Oxfordshire Riding Club portrait
prize at the Open Show 2010, Nobby is a stunning
horse who has successfully competed in all disciplines
‘Tully’ Tully was a talented irish horse with stunning paces and
jump. He evented successfully with his owner and is
dreadfully missed: he died of colic aged 11
‘Three Fells’
These three fillies were not impressed at having their
photographs taken, and had to be handled one at a time
Their characters made them a pleasure to paint though
‘Jake and Max’ Two stunning and well behaved show cobs who were a
delight to paint
‘Edward’
‘Howden Edward’ is a multi-talented New
Forest pony who won the portrait prize at the
SORC Open Show in 2012
‘Puppies’
These inseparable puppies were six months old
at the time of painting
‘Billy’
A delightful sheepdog who despite
being desperate to run about,
posed beautifully for his
photograph to be taken
‘Carrie’
A faithful and law-abiding labrador
‘Barney, Sadie and Pebbles’
Family pets - two Jack Russells and a Collie
‘Simba’
A typical lurcher, loyal and loving with a mind
of his own
‘Bertie’
A rather woolly terrier – painted in
watercolour with gouache
‘Jade and Amber’
Two colourful and composed Springer spaniels
‘Ruskin and Higgins’
Two very aristocratic Red Setters
‘Tess’
A serene black Labrador (one
of many I have painted!)
‘Harvey and Jambo’
Brothers, I believe. Two elegant and self contained pointers – very dignified
‘Cats!’
Cats can be challenging to
photograph, but make interesting
subjects and I enjoy painting them
Please note I own the Copyright of the pictures I have painted so please do not reproduce
any images without my permission