Commissioning a Portrait in Georgia
Hazel Morgan provides a bespoke portrait painting service to clients throughout Georgia. An award-winning artist with over four decades of professional experience, Hazel creates hand-painted oil portraits of exceptional quality for individuals, families, corporations, and institutions across the state.
From the boardroom to the family home, Hazel’s portraits have graced the walls of distinguished collectors, university halls, and corporate headquarters throughout Georgia. Each commission begins with a personal consultation and results in a work of enduring artistic merit.
Portrait Artist Georgia Area
As your trusted Portrait Artist Georgia, Hazel Morgan serves portrait clients in Georgia and the surrounding communities. Portraits are shipped directly to your door with professional packaging and full insurance coverage.
How to Commission a Portrait from Georgia
Commissioning a portrait from Hazel Morgan is a collaborative and enjoyable experience, regardless of where you are located in Georgia. The process has been refined over hundreds of commissions to ensure a seamless experience for every client.
Step 1: Initial Consultation
The process begins with a complimentary consultation - by telephone, video call, or email - during which Hazel discusses your vision for the portrait. This covers the subject, preferred composition, size, background, clothing, and any particular details you would like to include. There is no obligation at this stage.
Step 2: Photographs & References
For clients in Georgia, Hazel can work from professional photographs, high-quality personal photographs, or a combination of multiple reference images. She provides clear guidance on the types of photographs that produce the best results. Where feasible, live sittings can also be arranged.
Step 3: The Painting Process
Once the composition is agreed, Hazel begins painting. The process typically takes between six and twelve weeks depending on the complexity of the piece. Clients receive progress photographs at key stages so you can see the portrait taking shape and provide feedback before completion.
Step 4: Delivery & Framing
Completed portraits are professionally packaged for shipping. Shipping and framing costs are provided once the painting is complete. Hazel can also recommend master framers who specialise in fine art framing to complement your finished portrait. Clients in Georgia typically receive their portrait within one to two weeks of completion.
Why Clients in Georgia Choose Hazel Morgan
Hazel Morgan brings a rare combination of artistic excellence, professional reliability, and personal warmth to every commission. Here is what sets her apart:
Over 40 years of professional experience - Hazel has been painting portraits professionally since the early 1980s, amassing a body of work that spans hundreds of commissions for private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide.
Award-winning recognition - Her work has been exhibited at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, and other prestigious venues. She is a member of several leading art societies.
A personal, one-to-one service - Unlike studio operations, every portrait is painted entirely by Hazel herself. You deal directly with the artist from first consultation through to delivery, ensuring your vision is faithfully realised.
International shipping expertise - Hazel regularly ships completed portraits to clients across the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond. Every painting is professionally packaged to arrive in perfect condition.
Complete satisfaction guaranteed - Hazel works closely with each client throughout the painting process. Progress images are shared at every stage, and adjustments are made until you are completely happy with the finished portrait.
Frequently Asked Questions - Portrait Commissions in Georgia
Hazel provides personalized quotations after an initial telephone consultation, during which she discusses your specific requirements. The consultation is complimentary and entirely without obligation. Please get in touch to arrange a convenient time to talk.
Not at all. The majority of Hazel’s commissions are painted from photographs, which makes the process convenient for clients in Georgia and beyond. Hazel provides guidance on the best types of photographs to supply. Live sittings can be arranged where practical.
Most portraits are completed within six to twelve weeks from the start of painting, depending on the complexity of the commission. Hazel provides a realistic timeline during the initial consultation. Rush commissions can sometimes be accommodated for special occasions.
Hazel has extensive experience working with a range of photographic references, including older or lower-resolution images. She can often combine multiple photographs to create a single cohesive portrait. During the consultation, she will advise on whether your available photographs are suitable.
Completed portraits are professionally packaged using custom-built crating and shipped via insured courier directly to your address in Georgia. Shipping and framing are quoted separately after the portrait is completed.
Client satisfaction is paramount. Hazel shares progress photographs at key stages throughout the painting process so you can provide feedback and request adjustments. This collaborative approach means that by the time the portrait is complete, it faithfully reflects your vision.
Why Hazel Loves Georgia
Hazel admires Georgia with a genuine warmth that goes well beyond the professional relationship she shares with her clients there. The state carries a richness of character that she finds deeply nourishing - a layered blend of Southern tradition, quiet resilience, and an openness to storytelling that feels rare and precious. From the mossy squares of Savannah's Historic District to the lively creative pulse running through Atlanta's Inman Park neighbourhood, Georgia offers a sense of place that is both grounded and quietly extraordinary. For a portrait painter, that sense of place matters enormously, because it shapes the people who live within it.
Hazel loves the way her Georgian clients carry their stories so naturally. There is an ease to how people there hold themselves - a comfort in their own skin, a willingness to be seen - that makes the work of portraiture feel like a genuine conversation rather than a formal sitting. She has found that clients who have grown up attending events at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta often arrive with a thoughtful relationship to art already in place. They understand that a portrait is not simply a likeness but an interpretation, and that mutual understanding allows Hazel to paint with greater honesty and depth. The resulting works tend to have a warmth and authenticity that she treasures.
Hazel also admires the breadth of human experience that Georgia holds within its borders. The state has produced remarkable individuals across literature, music, civil rights, and public life - from the enduring legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose birthplace in Atlanta remains a place of profound emotional weight, to the generations of artists and writers shaped by Georgia's particular light and landscape. That heritage gives her portraits of Georgian subjects an almost tangible sense of context, as though each person she paints carries a quiet piece of something larger behind their eyes.
Hazel also loves returning to Georgia whenever she can, finding that the unhurried pace of life there restores her creative instincts in ways that busier cities rarely do. The front-porch conversations, the generous hospitality, and the willingness of people to simply sit with one another remind her of why she became a portrait painter in the first place - to honour the quiet dignity found in every human face.
Ready to Commission Your Portrait?
Begin with a complimentary, no-obligation consultation. Hazel would love to discuss your portrait ideas and provide a personalized quotation for clients in Georgia.
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Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bleckley, Brantley, Brooks, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Butts, Calhoun, Camden, Candler, Carroll, Catoosa, Charlton, Chatham, Chattahoochee, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clarke, Clay, Clayton, Clinch, Cobb, Coffee, Colquitt, Columbia, Cook, Coweta, Crawford, Crisp, Dade, Dawson, Decatur, DeKalb, Dodge, Dooly, Dougherty, Douglas, Early, Echols, Effingham, Elbert, Emanuel, Evans, Fannin, Fayette, Floyd, Forsyth, Franklin, Fulton, Gilmer, Glascock, Glynn, Gordon, Grady, Greene, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Hancock, Haralson, Harris, Hart, Heard, Henry, Houston, Irwin, Jackson, Jasper, Jeff Davis, Jefferson, Jenkins, Johnson, Jones, Lamar, Lanier, Laurens, Lee, Liberty, Lincoln, Long, Lowndes, Lumpkin, Macon, Madison, Marion, McDuffie, McIntosh, Meriwether, Miller, Mitchell, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Murray, Muscogee, Newton, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Paulding, Peach, Pickens, Pierce, Pike, Polk, Pulaski, Putnam, Quitman, Rabun, Randolph, Richmond, Rockdale, Schley, Screven, Seminole, Spalding, Stephens, Stewart, Sumter, Talbot, Taliaferro, Tattnall, Taylor, Telfair, Terrell, Thomas, Tift, Toombs, Towns, Treutlen, Troup, Turner, Twiggs, Union, Upson, Walker, Walton, Ware, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Webster, Wheeler, White, Whitfield, Wilcox, Wilkes, Wilkinson and Worth.
Towns in Georgia Where Hazel’s Portrait Clients Live
Atlanta, Buckhead, Tuxedo Park, Ansley Park, Druid Hills, Brookhaven, Morningside, Vinings, Sandy Springs, Dunwoody, Marietta, East Cobb, Roswell, Alpharetta, Milton, Johns Creek, Duluth, Peachtree City, Newnan, Serenbe, Madison, Athens, Watkinsville, Greensboro, Lake Oconee, Reynolds Landing, Eatonton, Milledgeville, Macon, Columbus, Augusta, Summerville Augusta, Thomasville, Albany, Valdosta, Savannah, Ardsley Park, Isle of Hope, Skidaway Island, The Landings, Tybee Island, Richmond Hill, Sea Island, St. Simons Island, Jekyll Island, Brunswick, Darien, Blue Ridge, Clayton, Highlands Road, Dahlonega and Rome.
Savannah, Jekyll Island and the Georgia Portrait
Georgia has two portrait traditions that grew up barely speaking to each other: the old coastal one at Savannah, formal and English in temper, and the newer Atlanta one, built on twentieth-century money and a great deal of ambition. Both are still commissioning.
The land was Creek and Cherokee homeland. Oglethorpe founded Savannah in 1733 on a grid of squares that remains one of the finest pieces of town planning in America, and the colony was intended as a place of second chances, with slavery initially prohibited. That prohibition did not last, and rice, indigo and cotton built a plantation economy on the coast and through the black belt. The Cherokee were forced west from north Georgia in 1838.
Savannah’s merchant families collected and commissioned from the start. In 1886 Mary Telfair’s bequest turned her family’s Regency mansion into the Telfair Academy — the oldest public art museum in the South, and one designed by William Jay, whose Savannah houses are still the best classical domestic architecture in the region.
The city’s look owes something to a preservation fight. In 1955 a group of Savannah women stopped the demolition of the City Market and founded the Historic Savannah Foundation, saving the squares and the townhouses. Later the Savannah College of Art and Design took over dozens of derelict buildings and made the city, improbably, into an art school town of twelve thousand students.
Down the coast the Golden Isles tell a different story. In 1886 a syndicate bought Jekyll Island as a winter club, and for the next fifty years Morgans, Rockefellers, Pulitzers, Vanderbilts, Goodyears and Astors wintered there in what was, by one account, the richest private club in the world. The cottages survive. Sea Island’s Cloister followed in 1928 and still draws the same kind of family.
Atlanta rebuilt itself after 1864 and has been rebuilding ever since. Coca-Cola money, and later Delta, Home Depot, UPS and the media fortunes, made the city the capital of the modern South. The High Museum, founded in 1905 and given Richard Meier’s white building in 1983, has one of the strongest American collections in the region — and it grew directly out of a tragedy, when a 1962 crash at Orly killed more than a hundred Atlanta arts patrons and the city rebuilt its museum in their memory.
Georgia also produced a distinctive vernacular tradition. Howard Finster in Summerville, Nellie Mae Rowe in Vinings, and the self-taught painters collected at the High have given the state a second visual language entirely its own, and it has shifted what Southern collectors think a portrait can look like.
Then there is Thomasville. From the 1880s Northern families built shooting plantations across the red hills of Thomas and Grady counties, and quail hunting there remains a formal affair. Sporting portraits — dogs, horses, guns, a landowner in the field — are ordinary commissions in that part of the state and always have been.
The rest of the commissioning geography is straightforward enough. Atlanta’s Buckhead, Tuxedo Park, Ansley Park and Druid Hills. The northern suburbs from Roswell to Milton and Johns Creek. Athens and the Oconee lake country. Macon, Columbus and Augusta, where the Summerville hill above the city is one of the best-preserved nineteenth-century neighbourhoods in the South. Savannah’s historic district, Ardsley Park, Isle of Hope and Skidaway. And St. Simons, Sea Island and Jekyll.
Institutional work is steady: the University of Georgia — whose Georgia Museum of Art is the official state art museum — Emory, Georgia Tech, Mercer, Morehouse and Spelman, the state capitol, the federal courts and the older Atlanta and Savannah firms all keep portraits and continue to add.
Georgia commissions tend to be occasion-driven. A wedding, a christening, a fiftieth birthday, a house finished, a business handed to a child. There is an established Southern habit of marking a moment with a painting rather than only with a party, and Georgia keeps it going more than most.
What makes the state interesting to paint for is the range within it: coastal light on the Isles, red clay and pine in the south, granite and hardwood in the north, and a city that reinvents itself every twenty years. No two Georgia portraits need look remotely alike.