Pet Portraits You Will Love
Welcome to Pastel Pet Portraits. I’m Lorraine Gray, a UK based pet portrait artist who has been offering custom, hand-painted artwork since 1999. We adore our pets and my lifelike, custom paintings make the perfect gift to remember a special friend.
If you are looking for someone who can produce a realistic, lifelike drawing of your dog, cat or horse it would be my privilege to capture their personality.
UK Animal Portrait Artist Lorraine Gray
With my many years of experience, I have been delighting clients worldwide with my bespoke, original art of their beloved cats, dogs and horses from their photos.
Many of my commissioned animal portraits are from people who want a lifelike portrait to remember a recently passed, loved pet. With a good photo to work from and by talking to my client about their pet’s personality I aim to bring their furry friend to life. Having a painting of the pets we have loved can be very comforting when they have gone.
Why Commission Me For A Custom Pastel Artwork?
The market for pet portraits varies between mass produced digital work to custom, hand painted artwork by professional artists. With a custom portrait you are paying for the artist’s skill to take the source photos and recreate a lifelike representation of your special pet. Here are some other reasons why you can put your trust in me.
- I’m a published author on the topic of pet portraits. Here are links to my Amazon Author and Goodreads Author pages.
- I’ve appeared on the BBC1 TV programme ‘Animal Rescue Live’ back in July 2007 along with presenters Matt Baker and Selina Scott where I painted a rescue dog from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home.
- I have over fifty 5-star reviews on my Google Business page.
Why They Make The Perfect Gift
I receive many commissions from clients looking for a unique gift. Hand-painted artwork makes a wonderful present, especially as Christmas gifts, birthday gifts or as a Valentines Day surprise. I’ve even written a recent blog post about why pet portraits make a great gift idea. If you want to commission a custom pet portrait as a gift please book early. For those times where the decision is last minute you can always buy a gift certificate so that the owner can decide on the pose at a later date. Details of my gift cards can be found on my prices page.
My testimonials show that you can be confident that I will provide you with a animal portrait that is lifelike and will bring you many years of cherished memories of your pet or pets.
Custom Pet Portraits From Your Photos
Dog Portraits
Beautiful & lifelike dog portraits from photos in pastels. As with all my pet portraits I can supply framed or unframed.
Cat Portraits
Let me capture your cat’s personality forever with one of my commissioned cat portraits. Pet portraits make the ideal gift.
Horse Portraits
Pet portraits of horses from a photo. My horse portraits are available in pastel and can be supplied framed or unframed.
Client Testimonials & Feedback
I have over fifty 5-star reviews on Google. The following are just a small selection of these reviews.
We were absolutely delighted with our portrait of Nala, our daughter’s dog. We couldn’t get over how life like it really looked, amazing! It is a beautiful portrait and made a wonderful 30th birthday present.
Lorraine could not have been more helpful or sympathetic. She ensured the whole process was quick and easy for me to manage remotely. Her regular updates were reassuring and WOW when we saw the final portrait… it was just amazing!!
This lady is one fantastic artist. I have had 2 pastels done by Lorraine, the first over 20 years ago of my now late Cavalier King Charles spaniel Harvey. Recently I have had another done of my second Cav Ollie. Both are now up side by side above my fire so I can see them both in all their glory. This is even more special as both are related with Harvey being Ollie’s Great, Great, Great Uncle.
Thank you to Lorraine for such a brilliant lasting memory of both of my best friends.My pastel portrait of our family dog is even better than I could have imagined and will make a wonderful gift for my parents. I couldn’t be happier.
I commissioned Lorraine to do a portrait of our 4 year old Tibetan Terrier named (Albie) for my wife’s birthday.
My wife and I are both amazed by what Lorraine has done and the likeness is second to none.Lorraine did the most amazing coloured portrait of my darling departed, 20 year old cat, Samson. It was incredibly lifelike and fully captured his essence; with a tear, looking at his portrait, I welcomed my boy home.
Lorraine is the best artist we have ever dealt with. She has done 4 portraits of pets we and my partners daughter have lost. The likeness in the portraits is outstanding which to us we could just put our hands in and stroke our beloved pets.
Lorraine created a beautiful life-like portrait of our beloved labradoodle Dash. The likeness to him is truly remarkable and I couldn’t be happier. She kept us updated on the progress and the final result was simply fabulous. Thank you so much!
I am over the moon with the portrait that Lorraine recently completed for me. She captured my Springer’s personality perfectly and her work is absolutely beautiful. Thank you!
Beautiful portrait of my horse Sid. Thank you xx
The amazing portraits of my dogs are a constant reminder of how much I love them!
We lost our cocker spaniel and thought that a portrait would be a fitting memorial. We contacted Lorraine and supplied her with 2 photos and after she looked at the pictures we arranged for her to paint the portrait. She kept us fully informed of price, delivery dates and the final picture exceeded our expectations. The portrait was stunning. Lorraine captured the very essence of our dog and and is a “living” reminder of the time we spent with our dog.
Words cannot fully express the quality and realism of the portrait. Thank you Lorraine for a truly wonderful portrait.This is my 4th pet portrait I have commissioned Lorraine to do and it’s just as beautiful. They are a perfect reminder of pets who have passed and ones still with me. Thank you Lorraine.
Common Questions About The Commission Process
These are just some of our frequently asked questions. Click each question to reveal the answer. If you have a question not answered on this website please contact us.
Why not commission me to paint a custom dog portrait, cat portrait or horse portrait?
We all love our pets dearly and so it’s only natural that we want to capture their personality in a painting. Pet portraits make a wonderful gift to someone special, or why not treat yourself?
