Just had this lovely message from Poppy’s owners. Thanks, Maggie, here she is! Hi Nina A rather belated happy new year!  We adore the portrait of Poppy, our hairy hound, and proudly show it off to friends and neighbours, but haven’t found her on your website or blog. best wishes, Maggie Welsh

Drawing more images for cards and prints. These lovely ladies are from Barford Farm, nr. Wimborne. A great place for ice-cream! What do you think so far? >

A lovely dog to draw, makes a lovely head study of a german shepherd.

A beautiful spaniel portrait, they make great subjects! Zac is a lovely example of one, with bags of character too! Thanks for coming across to pick him up, Nicola, I’m glad you liked him.Nina Squirewww.thepastelartist.co.uk07967 736762

I’m really pleased with these lovely characters – they make a great terrier portrait! That’s all I can show for now – there’s so many surprises for Christmas. I’ve been flat out since the summer and can just about see the end of the line of commissions for Christmas which is great but exhausting! Its …

Just working on this lovely pair, always great characters spaniels!

Just finishing these two off, they make a great pair.

A Sheltie with a wall eye and sooo many colours!

This is the first of two spaniel portraits, these are welsh springer spaniels, a lighter brown than the liver and white spaniel portraits I’m used to. Always lovely to work with such pretty eyes, pastels are perfect for animal portraits.