Paint my House

Dogs, horses, houses, cats... I paint commissions for people who love the things in their world. My name is Richard Carman, and I am an artist.

I am based in the UK, and have been selling paintings and commissions for many years. I have been featured on UK TV many times, in my own series "A Brush With the Mersey", on BBC2's "Restoration", ITV's "Locks and Quays" and on Channel 4's "Watercolour Challenge". The first paintings I ever sold were of people's houses local to where I lived as a student, of local pubs, farm houses and businesses.

Since then I have painted all over the world, from Cape Town to Copenhagen, Barbados to Beirut. I post most of my stuff here, but if you like Instagram I'm at www.instagram.com/richard_carman_artist and if web sites are your thing you can do www.richardcarman.com

14/05/2025

This is Obie, Carlo and, in the front, Scarlet. Their staff member wanted a fairly small painting, and I explained that it might not be possible to dig into their characters if each individual portrait was quite small on the page. So we came up with the idea of them all cracking into a photo booth together vying for the attention of the camera, and made this composite image from three separate photos. I think it works.

Painted in acrylics on a piece of handmade French paper, I bought the paper from the maker in Frankfurt nearly thirty-five years ago, and it has sat for all these years waiting for its day to come. It came.

Hope you like Obie, Scarlet and Carlo.

13/04/2025

I painted Wilson in acrylic on canvas for my friend Kev. What a sensible, responsible and mature-looking chap he is. That's Wilson, not Kev.

Edit - apologies to Wilson, who I accidentally called Henry. No wonder he won't come back when I call him.

08/04/2025

Turn your house into the National Gallery of Dogs (horses, cats, ugly husbands etc)...

01/04/2025

I started painting dogs in my teens - drawing my own dogs and doing them for friends and colleagues. I'm over 300 years old now, and I've drawn and painted a LOT of hairy best friends. But it all goes back to this one. This is Tinker. or "Tink" as she was affectionately known. We got her when I was about nine years old, and she was my best friend. We went to Abersoch in North Wales for weekend after weekend, Easter, Whitsun and half term holidays. It was the perfect place for a little boy and a dog to grow up together, when it was still a quiet little fishing village with no Range Rovers, no jetskis and no hoardes of Cestrians filling up the miles-long sandy beaches. We'd wake up in the morning and Tinker and I would head off into the sand hills with a football, finding stonechats and adders in the dunes, or crabs washed up on the beach. We'd climb the rocks at the curve of the bay or traipse to Llanbedrog Head to the east, and go home when we were hungry. All we lacked was Kirrin Island, but the islands in the bay served as potential Kirrins, though we never got out to them. Back at home we'd get up and go out Saturday morning bird-nesting and watching the birds come and go with binoculars, or I'd hook up with Paul and his sheltie, Brodie, and we'd wander the lanes. It was always sunny and warm and the hedges were alive with wildlife. A vulgar housing estate is built there now and most of the wildlife is gone. Tinker didn't live for very long - she went totally blind eventually and died very suddenly when I was seventeen. My dad buried her down the lane on the edge of a field of barley. The remains of my first best friend will be a metre down in somebody's garden these days. So if I have painted your dog, or you're thinking about whether you'd like me to, you can blame this little dog for why I do what I do, and why I love my subjects so much. I know what they mean to you because I look back on this little boy and his friend and know what she meant to me.

17/03/2025

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16/03/2025

I drew John and Teddy in pencil for my friend Sarah. I hope you like it...

09/03/2025

This handsome lady is Pono, a great Pyranees poodle, painted in acrylics. Hope you enjoy her as much as I enjoyed painting her.

19/02/2025

This is the mighty Henry, painted in acrylics on paper. What an excellent man he looks eh?

14/01/2025

I've not been posting much lately. The weather has been poor, I've had a dose of COVID, and the snow kept me indoors. But I have been doing some drawing out and about. Here's some recent sketch book pages to get up to date...

01/01/2025

Happy new year, and all the best for 2025 to everyone who has passed by this page in the last year. If you clicked on something to have a closer look, liked something, even if you actively disliked something but engaged with it anyway, thank you. I hope 2025 is a good, or at least a better year for you. ###

24/12/2024

Wishing everyone who's clicked onto this page, liked a painting, left a comment, shared a post or (be still my beating heart) bought one of my paintings, a very happy Christmas, if Christmas is your thing. And if it's not, I wish you all the best anyway. Thank you all for your support over the last year - it means the world to me. I don't really have a Christmassy painting to share at this point, so let's go with my last painting of the year to date... A CHAFFINCH!!!

23/12/2024

Approximately 4x4", a little male chaffinch in the hawthorn, painted in acrylics.

Hope you like. £75.00, unmounted, includes UK p&p. Comment or message me 😀

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My name is Richard Carman, and I am an artist. I am based in the UK, and have been selling paintings and commissions all over the world for many years. I have been featured on UK TV many times, in my own series "A Brush With the Mersey", on BBC2's "Restoration", ITV's "Locks and Quays" and on Channel 4's "Watercolour Challenge". The first paintings I ever sold were of people's houses local to where I lived as a student, of local pubs, farm houses and businesses. Since then I have painted all over the world, from Cape Town to Copenhagen, Barbados to Beirut. Most of the commissions I do nowadays are for animal portraits, paintings of house and homes all over the world, and portraits. You can visit my website at www.richardcarman.com, and my shop at www.etsy.com/uk/people/richardcarman999?ref=si_pr