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Pricing starts at

Canvas Paintings

£500

Portrait Art

£300

Sketch Art

£300

Illustrations

£300

Workshops

£400

Live Paintings

£300

Member Since

August, 2022

Avg. Response Time

3 hours

Hamley Jenkins in United Kingdom

Hamley Jenkins

Hamley

London,United Kingdom

7

(5)

Face Painters Hand-Poked

Total years of experience:

Workshop

3 Years

Reviews (7)

5.0

5.0

Ease and quality of communication

5.0

Completion and delivery timeframes

5.0

Quality of the artwork

JD

John Dembitz

(5)

| 24-Sep-2025

Hamley is an utter professional in but every way and her creativity is is beyond all expectations. She also listens to her clients and adjusts with great care to further enhance her artistic creation. I would recommend her to anyone without hesitation, she's a joy to have worked with.

SJ

Sam Jarvis

(5)

| 01-Feb-2025

It’s been a pleasure working with Hamley to create a stunning painting which was commissioned as a gift for my parents. The quality was beyond expectations, all communication was prompt and incredibly helpful. I could not recommend her highly enough.

WM

Woody Millhouse

(5)

| 07-Dec-2024

Amazing. We got a painting of our garden for my mum’s 60th. Hamley was so easy to work with and genuinely wanted to do her best. Amazing

PP

Pratik Pokharel

(5)

| 07-Dec-2024

We had a great experience with Hamley - doing a bespoke project for my wife’s birthday. She was very communicative, very accommodating and very thorough. Hamley went out of her way to research locations and produced a wonderful drawing that is a great memory for us. Highly recommend!

MC

Martin Crowder

(5)

| 18-Sep-2024

Hamely’s attention to detail and regular communication on how the project was developing was amazing. Hamely took onboard any feedback and I was so pleased with the result, and so was my wife who the gift was for. Highly recommend, a fantastic artist!!

MC

Mark Coughlan

(5)

| 25-Jul-2024

Wow! Hamley completed an amazing project for my wifes 40th. I didn't have a proper image, just a few references, and she created something unique and exactly what I was after. Having tried various avenues and struggling, hamley was the only artist who got it spot on. Communication was amazing throughout and the work was delivered early as she was so keen to help. Thank you so much for an amazing gift!

CH

Colin Hennessy

(5)

| 11-Dec-2023

I threw Hamley a curveball and had him draw someone close to me for a Christmas present. He added such excellent level of detail and was very communicative with what he had questions about and that made all the difference. He is really easy to work with and jumps at the opportunity to try something new. If you get a chance to work with him you should!

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About
Hello, I’m a Live Sketch Artist based in London. Using my artistic skills to help people express themselves is what I find rewarding, so I also run workshops and take on painting and drawing projects. Send me reference photos of favorite people and places for a long lasting artistic interpretation in ink, pencil, pastel or paint as a gift for a loved one, or invite me to be your Sketch Artist for a live drawing on site.

Pick me for these projects! :-

I love sketching a performance in front of a live audience, transcribing the scene to a blank sheet of A3 paper in front of their eyes - using only pencils. Magic! Portraits are hand-painted in acrylic on linen board, passing through my own lense to become colourful interpretations of the reference photos with a strong sense of composition. I keep you updated throughout the process to make those little tweeks that make all the difference to the final piece. Illustrations are developed with the client via good communication, so I provide 2 rough drafts and the opportunity to sign off the final piece before the artwork is sent in its digital form. Drawing is my passion, and I love to share it with anyone who wants to try. In my workshops I engage with each participant at their own skill level, encouraging each person to challenge themselves and work towards their own objectives within a group setting.

I'll sit these ones out :-

Copying another artist’s work - unless it’s Van Gogh,   or Goya,   or Magritte! If it’s a living artist and you love their work,   invest directly in them at whatever level you can.

Workshop
Life Drawing Sessions

£ 200

London life drawing sessions in your home or venue
Have a group of friends who like to draw? Get together for a social session if you have a home or venue large enough to host 10 people; Hamley can provide evening or weekend workshops in life drawing for experienced artists who need access to a life model.
Court in the Act
Dutch Painting
Ink Drawings, Charity Workshop
Painting Jacob Collier
Live sketch photo
Scenes of live drawing in situ
Cadogan Ink drawings
Veg Patch, Four Winds
Life Drawing participants
Oscar
Sky Portrait Artist of the Year YolanDa Brown
Me loving my job!
Ink sketch for Tarot Card design
Dawn over Bawdsey
Creative Workshop in action
Fierce Fashion Sydney Pimbley
Winston and Crowd
Sketchy people!
Whistling Bird in Flight
Sweetwoods Park, Edenbridge
Drawing Workshop on site
Leila Gilding
Pharoah Sings
Scenes of drawing live in venues
Tarot Card design, 3 of Cups
Paris Dancers II
Drawing Workshop
EMOM at the Crypt Ramon
Royal Albert Hall Merton Music Foundation
Black Beauty rolling in the grass
Autumn Garden
Happy Day with Dad
Ricky Also Whitecross Street Party
Black Beauty Folio Society Illustration
Broadstairs Beach
Birthday Family Portrait
Plumm Jazz Live at the Crypt
Serpentine due West
The Banger Factory Ronnie Scotts
Botany Bay
91 Living Room, Enemies of Turin
Stone Doorway, Kingsgate Bay
Rogue Theatre The Mermaid scene
Farringdon, Spring Sun
Jazz Live at the Crypt Julian Siegel Quartet
Farringdon, Rain
Farringdon, Spring Dawn

Qualifications/Positions:

Contestant in Portrait Artist of the Year 2025
Artist in Residence for Jazz Live at the Crypt,   7 years (current)
Live Sketch Artist for Wilderness Festival,   5 years in a row
BA (Hons) Design and Illustration 1993

Awards/Grants:

Exhibitions:

(Major Shows only)
ING Discerning Eye 2020 & 2017
Book Illustration Competition 2017
Lynn Painter-Stainers Show 2017
Dulwich Picture Gallery Open 2014

Worked with the following major brands:

Storyvault Films: Contestant,   Portrait Artist of the Year 2025
Wildcard,   Sky Landscape Artist of the Year 2024
Reserve Artist,   Sky Portrait Artist of the Year 2022

Secret Productions: Wilderness Festival 2012 - 2017
Folio Society
Cadogan
Wolff Olins

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