{"id":34640,"date":"2014-02-06T01:37:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T14:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/articles\/the-art-of-wedding-portraits\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T03:16:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T16:16:08","slug":"the-art-of-wedding-portraits","status":"publish","type":"au-article","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/articles\/the-art-of-wedding-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of wedding portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"
Anita Faulkner was always going to be an artist.<\/p>\n
Her earliest memories involve lying on her parents’ bed as a four-year-old and drawing intricate circular patterns all over her mother\u2019s cardboard bill box.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d be yelled at every day because I\u2019d draw on anything that was blank; walls, books, even, tables,” says Anita, who remembers being unable to stop drawing since she was old enough to hold a pencil.<\/p>\n
“I’d take chalk and draw on the road outside our home and, when I was four or five, I even drew fairies on my parents’ marriage certificate!”<\/p>\n
Forty five years later, all that \u201cpractice\u201d has paid off.<\/p>\n
Today, the NSW-based mother-of-eight is an award-winning artist who\u2019s dabbled in everything from pottery and folk art to batik, silk screen printing and airbrushing.<\/p>\n
But of all her artistic pursuits, it is painting Anita loves best and, today, she shares her gift with couples on their wedding day.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople have painted their weddings for centuries, and not the weddings of royalty,\u2019\u2019 says Anita citing wedding paintings found of ancient Greek vases dating back to 4 B.C. as well as, of course, one of the most famous wedding paintings of all time, Jan van Eyck\u2019s The Arnolfini Wedding<\/em> (below).<\/p>\n \u201cThese lovingly created paintings would take pride of place in their homes and would be seen every day for decades, sometimes even centuries,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n \u201cBut with cameras everywhere these days, people don\u2019t often think of having a wedding painting done, but weddings are just as special today as they were in 4 B.C. and it\u2019s such a lovely and unique way to commemorate your big day.\u201d<\/p>\n The Arnolfini Wedding by Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (1434)\n