Why a Portrait?

Some reasons to commission a portrait:

– Affirmation. Whether for a loved one or oneself, going through the process of having a portrait painted makes you feel valued; that you are worth remembering as you are, where you are in life, right now.

– Life Passages. Stages of life, graduations, promotions, accomplishments, retirement.

– Permanence, Originality. In a world awash in screen images and short attention spans, a portrait stands in contrast because it is created with care by human hands, and cannot be duplicated.

– Grandkids!

– Memorial tribute. Memory of a loved one brought to life, painted with warmth, depth of character, and light in their eyes.

– Honor a civic or business leader, or the family matriarch/patriarch.

– For art’s sake. To bring beauty and meaning into the home. To inspire young people to value art, and perhaps to become artists themselves. To personalize your home’s decor.

– Centuries-long tradition of commemoration through portraiture.

– To ‘freeze frame’ a significant time in one’s life for generations to come.

– Portrayal of the subject’s essence that simply cannot be rendered any other way.

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