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| Gillian Harris has been a professional artist for over thirty years, with paintings displayed in private collections all over the world. She has exhibited in London galleries, Game Fairs and Horse Trials, but now her work is mostly commissioned. Gillian's portfolio contains portraits, people portraits, pet portraits, animal portraits, animal sculptures and sculptures. |
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| Gillian - I would like to thank you for taking time to browse through my website, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions regarding my work or commissioning a portrait. I have the happy knack of getting a likeness whether it is an animal, person, house, or vintage car and love to create a painting which tells a story about the subjects involved'. I can arrange to take photographs of your children or pet's (Subject to distance) or I can work from existing good clear photographs if you can provide them. I work from different photographs and use various aspects from each to create your perfect painting, First I will create a drawing of the subject to ensure that you are happy, once you have approved the drawing I then start to paint the portrait.This way the client gets an accurate life-like portrait. Likeness guaranteed!
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This picture is from an article in the Times, the picture features my oil painting of my husband's dog Flint. |
| Gillian - Early in my career I painted wildlife, but once you've painted several mice and smaller wildlife there isn't much of a challenge to capturing their character anymore. So I progressed to children and family pets. Gillian offers children and animal portraits with a realistic background that is often overlooked. | |
| Gillian's home studio is just outside Chichester in West Sussex. | |
| A tight brief and she'll be happy. "I enjoy being told what's wanted, I really do enjoy meeting people to discuss their portrait requirements". Gillian gets a huge buzz from her clients when she sees their reaction when they first see her creation in real life. |
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| She says. "I'm not one of those artists who always wants to do their own thing. I enjoy meeting people and supplying what they want." Gillian wins brownie points when she reveals that she has a Springer spaniel and is partial to the breed.' | |