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About Us

ABOUT US


Celebrate Portraits is a custom portrait brand providing artistic creations from uploaded photos of life's most precious moments.

The art store is owned and operated by Greg Gillespie - professional artist with over 40 years experience in the art business - everything from commercial art to fine art.

MISSION


Our philosophy is simple: we offer beautiful, eye-catching artworks that preserve your memories with minimalist frames that blend seamlessly into your home.

We believe in the highest quality and standards. That’s why we’ve worked tirelessly to ensure our artwork styles, fonts, and frames all work together to create the perfect art piece.

With multiple warehouses across the globe, we provide fast local shipping to Australia, NZ, USA, Canada, and the UK. All our portraits are made with love by the artist Greg Gillespie in Australia.

OUR COMMUNITY


We are constantly inspired and moved by your stories. Your special moments are not only important to you, but also to me as your creative artist. If you would like to leave us a review please go here.

Have a question or want to get in touch? You can contact me here.

WE SUPPORT


Celebrate Portraits actively supports Fentanyl Awareness Education. The alarming rise in unintentional drug overdose deaths, more accurately termed "accidental poisoning deaths," demands urgent attention to safeguard our most vulnerable.

Fentanyl Awareness is an educational initiative aimed at informing our youth about the dangers of counterfeit pain medications often disguised as legitimate ones. Teaching them how to recognize these deadly substances and prevent tragedies is a cause we passionately support.



When you purchase one of our Memorial Portraits, we support the following foundations:

 10% of all Custom Memorial Portrait profits, donated to Fentanyl Awareness Education.

About The Artist - Greg Gillespie


🐣 From the age of 5 when I realized I had something special about my drawing skills, I was delighted to thrill people with my art.

📺 My first memorable drawing was of "Rock Sullivan" - (the Flintstones version of Ed Sullivan - 60's late night TV host). Both my mum and dad thought my crayon drawing really looked like the cartoon character on our black and white TV.

💨 AIRBRUSH ARTIST TO 📀 DIGITAL ARTIST

Having worked as a commercial artist in the 1980's and 90's, mixing in some fine art works along the way, I have been working across a broad number of mediums and art landscapes - both traditional and digital realms - always inspired by other great artists!

👍 MAKE ART AFFORDABLE - 🤗 AGAIN

I have launched my Custom Portraits Shop, to share the skills I have learned over the years, so that people can afford to have some of life's most memorable events immortalized in affordable and beautiful works of art - that I am most proud of.

Back in the days of the commercial art and fine art scenes - my commissions ran into the thousands of dollars and this put my work out of reach of anyone but the rich.

Naturally to make living as an artist working with big advertising agencies for companies like Microsoft, Coca Cola, IBM, Toyota - who had the big budgets to work with, was my meal ticket and this lasted a good 25 years or more.

✏️ PENCILS - 🎨 PAINT & 👾 PIXELS

Fast forward to now, and my fascination of copying and replicating still has not waned, and with the tools of trade now including everything from - Pencils, Paint and Pixels - I have been able to create my own visions of the paste not as direct copies but as derivative new works - as if done by the original artist.

🖼 CELEBRATE PORTRAIT PRINTS - are works of art based on events, people, pets and places in your life that hold significant memories for you and your loved ones.

🥳 I am so excited to be able to help you add some immortalized art to your space.

Just ask me how I can help and I will see what the possibilities are, and get back to you pronto!


🎨 Greg Gillespie
👨🏼‍🎨 Artist & Celebrate Portraits Founder