Custom Portraits with The Silhouette Lady
We’re thrilled to welcome back The Silhouette Lady to the Carriage Barn Arts Center on Sunday, November 30th!
Looking for a truly unique keepsake or gift? Deborah O’Connor crafts exquisite, heirloom-quality silhouette portraits with breathtaking detail—all in just minutes. Each intricately cut profile captures the essence of its subject, creating a timeless piece of art that will be treasured for generations.
These beautiful hand-cut silhouette portraits can be created for your family or pets (email profile photo in advance). Add a frame to create the perfect for gift or keep as cherished heirlooms.
Silhouettes are $30, with optional oval frames available (see examples below).
Book a sitting below between 11am-3pm.
Email profile photographs in advance for subjects (pets or people) who cannot attend in person [email protected]
History: Silhouette cutting is done entirely freehand in a matter of minutes. Working with layers of paper, it is possible to create several silhouettes of the same subject at once. These extra “copies” are traditionally sold at half the cost of the “original”, and make wonderful gifts. There is a magical quality to this art, beyond the fascination of seeing how quickly an accurate portrait is produced, using only scissors and a trained eye. A silhouette can capture the very “essence” of a person. Before the invention of the camera, the silhouette ranked as the most popular form of portraiture.
Book a sitting time and order custom, hand-cut silhouettes of your loved ones.