Proof, Not Promises
Interpretation, Side by Side
These are real commissions, with the real reference photographs beside the finished paintings. Read the full stories on the Memorial Portraits page.
Two photographs, taken years apart in unrelated places, became a single scene that never existed as a photograph — but is entirely true.
Nine candid photographs, none in the right outfit or setting, became the formal portrait every one of them was quietly reaching toward.
A photo of a mother on her own wedding day, decades earlier, became the moment she stood beside her daughter on hers.
An ordinary photo taken at home, flight suit and all, became a tarmac scene beside the aircraft he flew — the setting the moment always deserved.
Every family who has seen their painting for the first time says some version of the same thing: “That's exactly her.” It's rarely a sentence anyone says about a photograph. It's what people say when a painting has done its job.
