THE PORTRAIT ARTISTS

Mia Funk - Fine Art Painter

Trained at the ateliers Beaux-Arts, Paris. She has participated in number of international juried competitions including the Salon d’Automne Paris, for which she won the Prix de Peinture 2009. She has shown at the Grand Palais, official selection of the Salon des Artistes Français 2012. She was a finalist in Sky Television’s Art Competition London 2010, and The Guardian Newspaper’s London Lives Competition 2010, was nominated for the Celeste Prize 2010. Her work has been highlighted on radio, television and numerous art publications. She has exhibited widely and is known for her figurative and portrait work. She was commissioned to do a painting for the 30th anniversary of the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. Her paintings are held in a number of public, private and corporate collections including the Dublin Writers Museum et de la FIU World Art Collection in Amsterdam.

Gloria Pacis – Fine Art Painter / Commercial Artist / -- years as Scenic Artist

After several years working as lead stage designer for Seattle Children’s Theatre, she moved to New York in 2002. Apart from her work as a fine artist, where her focus is on large figurative paintings, she works as a commercial artist with a special interest in designing signage and props.

Her dramatic use of contrast and expressive brushwork, results in a strong graphic style which is immediately recognizable.

As well as her painting and commercial art, Gloria likes to lend her time to causes she believes in and has created artwork and organized art auctions for Veteran Artists and other charities.

Our portrait artists have over a hundred years combined experience painting the human form. They have a breadth of knowledge and expertise for which they have been awarded prominent painting prizes, as well as notable public commissions. Among the notable commissions include a 30th anniversary painting for the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival...and a recent portrait of Alec Baldwin for Capital One Bank which featured prominently in a recent nationally televised advert. <read more>

Their commercial work for film and television dramas has given them invaluable working knowledge of composition and the scenic arts, and an instinct for creating strong images which are both memorable and full of emotional impact. Some of the directors our artists have worked with include Martin Scorcese, Steven Spielberg...Prominent productions our artists have been involved with past and present include The Sopranos, The Good Wife, 50 Rock.

Other notable portraits created by our artists include L’Audience (a group portrait of leading 20th century artists, including Picasso, Matisse and Cezanne, awarded the Prix de Peinture by the Salon d’Automne de Paris 2010. ‘An Audience with the Queen’ an award-winning portrait of Lucian Freud and Queen Elizabeth (Thames & Hudson Prize 2011).

Their work has appeared in theatre, on publicity posters, and in arts and literary magazines. Their paintings are in a number of public and private collections in France, England, Switzerland, Italy, Ireland, Belgium, China and the United States. They have collaborated with architects and fashion designers and Mia Funk is currently working with a Chinese fashion label who have commissioned her paintings for a range of luxury hand screen printed silk scarves.

OIL PAINTING PORTRAIT

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COMMISSION A STUDY / WORK ON PAPER

Like to commission a portrait, but just not ready to have your portrait painted in oils? Why not send us a photo and one of our artists can execute a ink brush painting, charcoal, conte or pen-and-ink work on paper.

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For an addition $––––––––ink brush painting, charcoal, conte or pen-and-ink can be done on canvas board.

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