I have been painting, drawing and creating small animal ceramics and sculptures since I can remember. My first pet portrait commission accrued when I was about 13 years old.
I started at Art school in Gothenburg year 1993 and graduated year 1996.
I always did commissioned work from time to time but I never thought of establish my own business out of it. As a matter of fact, I was the only one at school claming that it’s hard to make
a living out from selling art. Maybe that was true, since internet wasn’t in that many people’s minds back then. Internet is a great recourse for artists around the world, being able to finally be seen and create their own online galleries creating artwork, selling prints, originals and giving a service of custom art and much more.
My Pet Portraits web site has been online for more then a year now and the year 2007 is going to be another busy year. My Pet Portraits has become very popular and it’s very rare that a Pet portrait Artist gets established as fast as I did. I have been working very much though, at least 10 hours a day to create this web site, painting and drawing portraits for reference galleries, creating business cards, flyers, writing articles and texts. From the beginning I asked friends or people that I didn’t know if I could paint and draw their dogs. Almost all the portraits I painted from the beginning were bought from the dog owners, it really didn’t matter if I knew them or not. That was a great way to start up my Pet Portrait business! Being able to create and learn at the same time as I got most of the portraits sold.
My web site is regularly updated and I do have many unique visits every day. My experience in web design and as I have been working closely with marketing people gave me a good base. I still had to learn online marketing though, witch I didn’t know anything about.
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I started to paint again, after 10 years of working with web design, graphic design and touch screen applications in the company Logina, Slovenia! The idea suddenly came up one day as I wanted to create a painting of the Laekenois “Nozem” from kennel Longfields. She had many great photographs of her dogs and I asked if I could use them to create a painting. She said yes and when it was painted I posted it on my forum about Belgian Shepherds. She bought it in a minute! After this painting I got a commission from Teus, Sculpadog NL who is a professional trainer of Police dogs and hearing dogs after he had seen the Laekenois painting. So it suddenly came to me, why not make a living from painting pets!? It was my true call in life as I both adore animals, same time as art always had been in my life. One day later I registered my domain Pet-Art.net and started working! I’m still creating web sites and graphic design for mostly breeders and animal organizations beside my Pet Portraits.
So here I am today, painting all your wonderful animals! Guess I was born to do this :) I just adore animals, and expressing their soul and character gives me extreme satisfaction. An animal can give you so much pleasure, something I sense every day in my own two dogs.
A pencil Drawing made by me
at age of 10
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