Maggie Tanner

We’ve just got back from Will’s 70th birthday celebrations and I cannot tell you how thrilled he is with your portrait of his beloved Molly!! The whole family is blown away by it and we can’t wait to hang it in our hallway!

I sent a photo of it to my aunt and uncle who are very involved in the art world and my uncle said "She should win The Turner Prize”! He used to be the curator of The National Art Gallery!'

Mum said it was "absolutely gorgeous" and cried pretty much instantaneously. "It's just so him. You captured him so completely, thank you."
Dad said it was “unbelievably realistic“ and was completely blown away. "I can't stop looking at it, absolutely incredible".

I've now got tears in my eyes - you couldn't have captured Gracie any more than you have. I just want to cuddle her. Wow, absolutely amazing Maggie, I'm choked up - you are so talented, I can't thank you enough xx

So I'm now the proud owner of a Maggie Tanner original! It is the most exquisite piece of work and I can't wait to get it framed and on the wall. Just hoping it's not the only one I ever have.'

Dear Maggie, I just wanted to thankyou so much for the magnificent portrait of Hector. It is absolutely stunning.

I asked Maggie to draw 2 portraits of my Newfoundland dogs. Her attention to detail is amazing, the portraits are so life like. The standard of her work is outstanding. I will be commissioning Maggie to do 2 more portraits for me this year.

We have many pictures in our home that Maggie has drawn with pastels. Her talent is unbelievable; such attention to detail. She has a very keen eye and brings her drawings to life. We had commissioned Maggie to draw an elephant for a friend's 50th. Amazing! I wouldn't go anywhere else for my artwork.

Maggie's portraits of Harry are moving, amazing and fantastic. It takes a while to understand why, the impact of the image on a visual and emotional level. Maggie interprets colour, texture and form, converting a photograph into higher definition of being, so the subject comes alive. It seems every hair is defined, every texture is alive and so the emotions come alive. Harry is with us again within the frame, and for a moment it tricks us into the belief that somehow we could again reach into the frame, on the one hand and touch him, and Harry too, reaches out of the frame to meet us as he once was, in totality. At that moment we are moved emotionally beyond words. Maggie understands this emotional connection, and is the benchmark of her success For me, this reaction will never leave me, even now, each time I look at the portrait, and I thank Maggie for that from the bottom of my heart.