Portrait Artist in Ottawa

Commission-based. South Ottawa.

I work with individuals and families in Ottawa who want to hold something — not a file, not a digital image, but a finished work that belongs to your walls and your life.

Where It All Began

Ottawa is where this work began.

In 2002, Nisha and I moved here. She saw something in my early photographs and encouraged me to open my first studio in Canada. What started as a quiet practice became something deeper — a place where people came not just to be captured, but to be understood.

Ottawa shaped the way I work. It taught me patience, attention, and respect for the subtle. Everything that followed — Toronto, Miami, the work itself — began here.

A Fine Art Portrait Commission in Ottawa

This is not a photography session. It is a commission — a collaboration between an artist and the people who matter to you, resolved into a single finished work.

Each portrait begins with a sitting in South Ottawa. Personal, unhurried, and built around presence rather than performance. What emerges is captured, then shaped — by hand — into a Monochrome or Mixed Media artwork that becomes part of your home.

The work resolves as a physical, framed artwork. There are no digital files.

Monochrome and Mixed Media

A Monochrome portrait is light, expression, and restraint — printed on archival material and finished to museum standard. Timeless in the truest sense.

A Mixed Media work begins as a photograph and is transformed by hand using encaustic beeswax and oils. No two are alike. Each one carries the mark of the making.

During the viewing, we explore both paths together. The choice is always yours — and always unhurried.

"Something true came through. I didn’t expect that.”

Marie-Claude

Working in South Ottawa

The studio is in South Ottawa, at Colonnade — a quiet, professional space suited to this kind of work. Sittings are by appointment.

Clients come from across the National Capital Region: the Glebe, Westboro, Rockcliffe Park, Old Ottawa South, Kanata, Barrhaven, and beyond. Many also travel from Chelsea, Wakefield, Gatineau, and the Outaouais.

How It Works

A commission begins with a conversation — a brief exchange to understand what you are hoping to hold onto, and who or what is at the center of it.

From there, a sitting is arranged at the South Ottawa studio. The experience is personal and collaborative. Nothing is rushed.

After the sitting, a private viewing — a guided projection of what was captured, where we choose the image and discuss how it will be finished and scaled for your space.

The finished artwork is delivered framed, ready to live with.

If you are ready to begin, or simply want to understand what a commission looks like — reach out. There is no pressure and no timeline but yours.