Paint & PyreShop

Commissioned

Pet portraits

The bread and butter, and how most people find her. Somebody sends a photograph of their animal and gets a painting of it back.

Painted portrait of a black labrador against blue
Black labrador
Painted portrait of a border collie, mouth open, against lavender bokeh
Border collie
A white husky painted against chrome yellow
White husky on chrome yellow
A long haired tabby cat with green eyes, painted on a round panel with her name Luna lettered in red
Luna, painted on a round

Her own work

Paintings and oddities

What gets painted when nobody has commissioned anything. Kitsch, horror, and a great deal of colour, usually all at once.

A grey wolf snarling beside a pale sleeping figure, among mushrooms and autumn leaves
Wolf in the mushrooms
A snarling pink sphynx cat painted against a black starfield
Sphynx on a starfield
A pale animal among orange sunflowers on a magenta ground
Sunflowers on magenta
A cartoon green dragon painted on pink
Green dragon
A Furby painted on a carved wooden heart, purple fur, teal eyes and a yellow beak
Furby on a wooden heart

Commissioned

Portraits of people

Family portraits and wedding portraits, painted the same way as the animals and priced by how many faces are in them.

Painted portrait of a bearded man holding two small girls, in a gold field
A father and his girls
Painted portrait of a young woman holding a kitten
Young woman with a kitten

In person

At the market

Originals on the walls, prints and cards on the table, magnets and wood burned rounds in between. This is the stall at The Redd on Salmon Street in Portland.

Paint & Pyre under a black canopy at night, in front of the lit brick facade of The Redd on Salmon Street
The Redd on Salmon Street, Portland.
Sara's printed market banner, reading Vibrant Whimsical Eclectic on the left and Original Art Prints Curios on the right, with her cat mark in the middle
Her printed banner. The black band at the top of this site is the same layout.
Sara's market table, with hand painted magnets on a pegboard, racks of prints and cards, and a large painted moon portrait
Prints, cards, and magnets on the table
Framed wood burned rounds and a board of hand painted button magnets at the stall
Wood burned rounds and button magnets

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Want one of your own?

Commissions are open all year. Send a photograph of the animal, or of the people, and Sara will tell you what it takes.