Made in a farmhouse,
on the edge of an olive grove.

A different kind of portrait studio.

Our atelier sits in a converted 200-year-old farmhouse near Mdina. Limestone walls, north-facing light, an olive grove out the back that's older than any of us. It's not a factory. It's the kind of place where the people who make your portrait actually care that it lands well.

We print every order on 250gsm Enhanced Matte Art, the same paper used by European galleries for limited-edition prints. Ships flat in a protective sleeve from our warehouse in mainland Europe. Framed prints arrive later this year, we're building the framing operation now.

The bit where technology helps.

We use a current-generation image-rendering pipeline — the same calibre of tooling used by professional illustration studios — to render six fine-art interpretations of your pet. Every preview is then inspected for likeness against your original photograph before it reaches you.

If the model can't render a portrait that recognisably looks like your pet, we re-render before showing you anything. If a print arrives and it still isn't them, we refund the whole order, no questions.

The AI does the painting. The studio does the printing. The olive grove just gives us somewhere nice to sit and answer your emails.

— The studio Olea & Hound · [email protected]