Pet Portraits - Dogs, Cats, Animals and Landscape Paintings - About Isabel Clark, the Artist

Pet portraits and Greeting Cards of your pets, dogs, cats animals, or landscapes make very special gifts and Cards.

All I need from you is a CLEAR photo of your pet dog, cat, or any other pet, person or place, to create a unique and special gift.

If you do not have any CLEAR, close up photos of your pet, take some NOW

Telephone: UK 024 76462885

"God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear, To give sign we and they are his children, one family here."

- Robert Browning. 1812-1890 -

My Work

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.

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 Life

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.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.
 - John Luckey Mccreery -

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, field mice, 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, smooth newts, stickle-back fish, minnows, water boatmen and a myriad 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.