Custom Birthday Gift from Your Photo

Most birthday gifts are used up or forgotten by autumn. A painting is not. Send one clear photo, the birthday person as they actually are, and we hand-paint it in oil on canvas. These are our personalized oil portraits, made to order, never printed. You see a digital preview and approve the likeness before we finish. The canvas then ships stretched, varnished, and ready for the wall it was meant for. From approval to delivery is usually two to three weeks, so order with a little room before the date. A phone photo is fine to start from; you do not need a professional shot, and you approve the likeness on screen first, so the finished canvas is never a gamble.

Why Paint a Birthday Portrait

Flowers wilt. Gadgets date. A portrait stays put and means a little more each year.

It also lands differently. A wrapped painting is not a gift card. People remember who gave them the thing on the wall.

And it suits any personality. A quiet parent, a loud teenager, a friend who owns everything already. A portrait still lands.

It travels, too. The piece moves house with them, from a first flat to a family wall, and keeps meaning something.

Sizes run from a small shelf piece to a statement canvas. You pick the scale; we match it to the wall. Delivery is tracked and the piece arrives wired and ready to hang.

It scales to any age. A first birthday suits children portraits from photo; a fiftieth deserves something with real weight on the wall. Same painter, same hand, whatever the number on the cake.

Sending the Photo

One sharp, well-lit shot. Eye level. No heavy filters. Group photo? That is fine too, since we can pull one person out or paint the whole crowd. Tell us the size you want and the wall it is heading for, and we will match the canvas to the space.

Old photos work as well as new ones. A childhood picture painted for a milestone birthday tends to stop the room. Send whatever means the most.

Not sure which one? Send two or three and we will tell you which will paint best, then confirm the size and crop in writing before we start.

The same craft carries into the couple's own milestones, from a birthday to anniversary portraits from photo further down the line. Pick the photo. We do the rest.