The Painting You've Been Describing for Years
You know the wall. You may even know the animal. What you have never been able to find is the piece. That is what a commission is for.
Inside the process
From a blank canvas to the reveal.
Step 01
The Conversation
Your wall, your light, your size range, and what you want to feel when you walk in. I ask a lot of questions. We measure, in person or over video.
Step 02
The Mood Board
Palette, reference imagery, and a composition sketch. Nothing is painted until this feels like yours. The $1,000 deposit is placed here.
Step 03
The Painting
Oil on canvas, built in layers. You get progress photos from the studio as it comes alive.
Step 04
The Reveal
Final photos for approval, then varnish, signature, certificate of authenticity, and insured delivery to your door.
Recent commission
A three-piece set, built for one wall.
A mother came to me with a simple ask: her daughter's three horses, on her daughter's wall. Not horses in general, these three, each with a personality the whole family could name from across a field.
I painted them as a set so that whoever walks into that room feels what the daughter feels at the barn: known, steady, and completely at home.
Three ways to begin
Choose the shape, I'll paint the rest.
Single piece
One anchor painting
The piece the room is built around. Wildlife, seascape, or a place that matters, sized to your wall.
Set or triptych
Two or three, one story
Panels composed together so they read as a single piece across a wide wall, a hallway, or above a bed. Like the horse set above.
Corporate
Lobbies, offices, resorts
Art with a story your guests and team can talk about. The Belize Collection was commissioned this way: 20 paintings for one island resort.
Start a commission
Tell me about the space.
Three minutes, no obligation. I reply personally and we start with a conversation, not a contract.
- Pricing. $3 per square inch, the same as every original.
- Deposit. $1,000 to begin, balance on completion.
- Timeline. [x weeks] from deposit to delivery.