Portrait Commissions
Desmond employs traditional techniques and his paintings are made using oil on canvas.
The figure is set in an imaginative context which is often formed with quotations from historical paintings. Ideally, the sitter would choose their favourite images from art history to provide the landscape within which they are represented.
However, if the sitter prefers a more classic style of portraiture, this can certainly be accommodated. As well as painting in oils, Desmond is an accomplished draughtsman and watercolorist.
Please get in contact if you wish to know more.
Portrait in oil of the costumier Dave Whiteing
Portrait of Federico, oil on canvas
Portrait of Phoebe, oil on canvas
Portrait of Sarah, oil on canvas
Portrait in oil of the poet Matthew Caley
Portrait in oil of Iris with a background by Fragonard
Portrait in oil of John with a background by Fragonard
Portrait in oil of Guido amongst three of his favourite paintings: Waterhouse’s Hylas and the Nymphs, Titian’s Venus and Adonis, and Ucello’s Battle of San Romano
Portrait in oil of Emma between quotations from Waterhouse’s St Cecilia and A Tale from the Decameron
Charcoal drawing of Arif
Charcoal drawing of Victoria