Animal Portraits

Welcome to my animal portrait website. I’m a artist based in Cape Town, South Africa and I love creating customised hand painted animal portraits for you in watercolour or soft pastel. I can also create digitally remastered works if so preferred. My custom animal portraits can be supplied framed or unframed. The works that clients ask me to paint are available in a range of sizes.
Some examples of my work can be seen on this website or can be viewed on my Facebook and Instagram pages.

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Animal Portraits by Hannelie Gouws

I’m Hannelie Gouws and I have been a animal lover and portrait artist for over 10 years now. I have been delighting clients with portraits of their beloved animals from their photos that they supply. Many of my portraits are from people who want a lifelike portrait to remember a recently passed, loved pet or animal. With a good photo to work from and by talking to my client about their animal's personality I aim to bring their lost friend to life in the animal portraits I produce. Having a painting of the animal we have loved can be very comforting when they have gone.
I also get orders from people wanting to give pet / animal portraits as a gift. These paintings are great gifts, especially as Christmas gifts or birthday gifts. If you want to order a custom animal portrait as a gift please book early. For those times where the decision is last minute you can always buy a gift certificate so that the owner can decide on the pose at a later date.

Animal Portraits from Photos

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Soft Pastel Portraits

Beautiful & lifelike dog portraits from photos in soft pastels. As with all my animal portraits I can supply framed or unframed.

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Digital Portraits

Let me digitally restore any of your old pet photos. Files are supplied in tiff format or it can be printed on canvas.

Watercolour Portraits

I can paint your beloved pet and capture its personality forever. Watercolour portraits can be supplied framed or unframed.

Please contact me for a quote info@hanneliegouwsdesign.com