Portrait Artist in Toronto

Commission-based. Yorkville.

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

The Yorkville Studio

The studio is at 32 Scollard Street in Yorkville — a neighbourhood shaped by galleries, design houses, and people who understand that the things worth keeping are made by hand.

Toronto has always been a place of return for us. It is where commissions come in steadily, where clients refer without being asked, and where the work has found its audience.

The studio itself is quiet and private — a deliberate counterpoint to the city outside. It is designed for attention.

A Fine Art Portrait Commission in Toronto

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 the Yorkville studio. Quiet, 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.

“It arrived and I understood immediately what it was. Not a photograph. Something more permanent.”

Christine

Working in Toronto’s Yorkville

The studio is at 32 Scollard Street — easy to find, easy to arrive at, and designed to feel like a world apart from the street outside.

Clients come from across Toronto and the GTA: Rosedale, Forest Hill, The Bridle Path, Lawrence Park, Moore Park, Summerhill, Leaside, and beyond. Many also travel from Mississauga, Richmond Hill, King City, and Oakville.

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 Yorkville 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.