Prices & info

Cards, prints, swimming hats etc.

I have a shop on Etsy at www.waterdrawnart.etsy.com where I list a selection of prints, cards and swimming hats with my own designs on them. I can also make prints to order if there is a drawing that I’ve done that you can’t find there.

Commissions:

My apologies, I am not taking any commissions on this year because a broken wrist (not my drawing hand but still very incapacitating) has prevented me from completing any artwork since February. The autumn and winter months are when I get very little artwork done in any case as I usually have a lot of orders of calendars, hats and prints to deal with. So next spring is when I expect to have the first few months of useful time to work on artwork and until then I am not going to be taking on any commission work.

Here are some examples of past work:

Digital drawings – commissions

I can work from a single photo, or a combination of several photos and imagination to make up the scene that you want to depict. The image is drawn on a tablet, so the finished product is a print, using gallery-quality paper and inks. Usually I make just one print, which you will have, but I can make multiple prints if you would like more than one, at a much smaller additional cost than the original image.

Chris, beginning the channel swim, commissioned by Lawrence pidcock

Maeve Mulcachy’s Fastnet to Baltimore swim

Anne Sheehy and chanel relay team, commissioned by Anne

Sophia, swimming. Digital drawing by Nancy Farmer

learning to sail — Digital drawing – “Learning to Sail”

Paintings – commissions

Most of my paintings are studies of underwater figures, if you’d like to be in one of my paintings I’d be happy to discuss this. I work in watercolour, sometimes with gold leaf and other metal leaf. I will usually need a very good photo to begin with – it doesn’t need to be perfect, but it does need to be interesting. If you are nearby (I am based in Somerset, UK) I can also meet and take photos of you first to work from.

lifting paint to make highlights — lifting paint (with the tiny ‘scrubbing brushes’)to make highlights

Helen Betley in monochrome watercolour and different kinds of metal leaf (Gold, Palladium, Aluminium)

Ghislaine – watercolour & palladium leaf

Winter Sun - watercolour and metal leaf by Nancy Farmer — Winter Sun – watercolour and metal leaf by Nancy Farmer

Row Clarke, getting into the sea at Clevedon — Row Clarke, (not originally a commission)

Mini Swimmer – 4×4 inch miniature of Fiona

Swimming hat designs, t-shirts, logos etc – commissions

I would be happy to discuss what you’d like and give you a fixed price usually after showing you an initial sketch.

‘Swim Wild and Free’ – hat for Outdoor Swimmer

The Big Chill Swim 2016 – event image for Chillswim

‘All Pie no Tri’ – Hat for Suzanna Cruickshank

Yes, I can work from photos:

A lot of my artwork is based on a combination of photographs and imagination, and I can create a scene from several photos if you have different photos of several people. Please bear in mind that the more complicated the composition is, the more it will cost! I also take underwater photos at Vobster Quay, which usually has lovely clear water and if you would like to join me I can take photos to work from. (Vobster Quay: Radstock, Somerset, BA3 5SD, UK. www.vobster.com)