Welcome to Claire’s animal & pet portraits

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Animal & pet portrait artist Claire Harris creates beautiful portraits of animals and pets from photographs. Claire uses fine artist pastels and pencils to capture an amazing likeness of the animal or pet so that the portrait will be treasured forever.

Pastel Portraits make wonderful presents and mementos and Claire provides a personal service to every customer. Gift certificates are available and start from a very reasonable price.

Bristol artist Claire has enjoyed drawing from an early age and has studied art to A Level. Although her career branched into another direction, she never lost her love of drawing and found herself offering to "have a go" at a pastel portrait of her friend's horse ‘Guinness’. She has never looked back! Claire found a hobby that combined her passion for art and animals. She has been producing pet portraits for friends and family since 2001 and is now offering her talent to the wider public audience.

Claire likes to draw any animal or pet from a good clear photograph and she is happy to discuss your requirements without obligation. Claire specialises in animal & pet portraits but she can also draw portraits of people and she likes to draw and paint buildings and landscapes. Claire is currently woking on a project to produce illustrations for a series of children’s books written by Jackie Beard which Claire and Jackie hope to get published.

When she is not drawing portraits of her customer's pets, Claire can usually be found racing across the countryside on her endurance horse Eko, or at home with her husband, baby and Winston the cat.

 

  • Dog Portraits

  • Cat Portraits

  • Horse Portraits

  • Other Portraits

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Dog Portraits

A pastel portrait of your dog or puppy can be treasured for a lifetime. Claire makes every effort to capture the individual’s personality on paper. If you would like a pastel portrait of your dog or puppy, please contact Claire using the contact form. More information can be found on the How to Order page.

Claire’s dog portrait gallery is a ‘work in progress’ and she will add new portraits as and when she completes them.

“The more people I meet the more I like my dog”
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Cat Portraits

Cats are funny, fuzzy, wonderfully snooty little creatures that make great companions. Treasure a pastel portrait of your cat or kitten. Claire makes every effort to capture the individual’s personality on paper.

If you would like a pastel portrait of your cat or kitten, please contact Claire using the contact form. More information can be found on the How to Order page. Claire’s cat portrait gallery is a ‘work in progress’ and she will add new portraits as and when she completes them.

“Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you later”
Mary Bly

 

Horse Portraits

Horses are beautiful drawn in pastels and Claire makes every effort to capture the individual’s personality on paper.

If you would like a pastel portrait of your horse or pony, please contact Claire using the contact form. More information can be found on the How to Order page.

“There’s nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse”
Ronald Reagan

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Other Animal Portraits

Claire likes to draw any type of animal including wild animals from good clear photographs. If you would like a pastel portrait of an animal or pet, please contact Claire using the contact form. More information can be found on the How to Order page.

Claire’s other animal portrait gallery is a ‘work in progress’ and she will add new portraits as and when she completes them

“An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language”
Martin Buber

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News & Events

Five Freedoms Photography Competition

Claire has agreed to donate a commissioned portrait to the Five Freedoms Photography Competition which is being held at the Bristol Dogs and Cats Home Open Day on Saturday 26th May 2012. Claire has donated an A3 pastel portrait worth £105 and she will supply some promotional material to the charity for a display at the Open Day. The competition gives the public the chance to enter their photgraphs based on the RSPCA's Five Freedoms:

 

1.       Freedom from hunger and thirst 

2.       Freedom from discomfort

3.       Freedom from pain, injury and disease 

4.       Freedom to express normal behaviour 

5.       Freedom from fear and distress. 
 
Great Western Air Ambulance Donation

Claire has donated a portrait in aid of a charity event on 25th Nov 2011 for the Great Western Air Ambulance.

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