Deep reds and burgundy with bold swirling impasto forms filling the background. The figure sits in a vortex of colour. Emotional temperature runs hot.
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, astonished, tight cropping, turbulent vortex of crimson and deep red in heavily textured oil
Cool grey with swirling marks and ghostly repeated faces emerging from the background. Unsettling and distinctive. The figure stands in a crowd of shadows.
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, astonished, tight cropping, unsettling grey palette, ghostly crowd of faces dissolving into swirling textured shadow
High contrast black and white with dark architectural forms flanking the figure. Graphic and controlled. The figure stands in a surround of deep shadow and structure.
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, astonished, tight cropping, stark monochrome with controlled shadow and geometric structure
Cool blue geometric planes like shattered ice filling the background. The figure is refracted rather than rendered. Cold and crystalline.
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, astonished, tight cropping, cubist planes of glacial blue splinter the figure into icy geometry
Sandy ochre and warm stone tones with the background generating a clear arch and flanking walls that frame the figure in a niche. Painterly and naturalistic with strong architectural presence. The figure feels placed rather than imposed.
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, astonished, tight cropping, soft brushwork in amber and ochre, figure nestled in a carved stone arch
Warm cream and pale pink with tall flowing organic forms filling the background. A fine woven texture maps figure and ground throughout. Warm and tactile with a gentle flowing quality.
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, astonished, tight cropping, warm creamy palette, fine textile texture, gentle flowing shapes filling the composition
Deep warm brown with large rounded forms generating ghostly face-like shapes in the background. The figure stands before a surround of watching presences under a rounded arch. Dark and atmospheric with an unsettling warmth.
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, astonished, tight cropping, bathed in dark warmth, arched forms conjuring watchful figures from swelling shadow
Warm peach gold and dusty mauve fragments spiral behind a coherent figure. Background generates strong rotational energy — almost kaleidoscopic. Figure holds while the surroundings dissolve into motion. Energetic and flattering to warm sources.
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, astonished, tight cropping, vibrant warm-toned abstraction with spinning dusty mauve and golden peach background motion
Warm cream and ivory ground with faint ghosted figure forms visible in the background texture. Painterly and delicate — the spectral presences are suggested rather than stated. Figure is confident and warm against the pale haunted surround. Flattering and quietly distinctive.
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, astonished, tight cropping, confident warm figure against a luminous cream field of suggested ghostly forms
Cool blue taupe and pale rose with rounded smooth boulder forms filling the background. Figure is warm and confident against the cool stone surround. Naturalistic and grounded — the background reads as river-worn stone rather than angular rock. Softer and more painterly than Blue Granite.
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, astonished, tight cropping, soft naturalistic palette of weathered stone with warm confident figure
Bright cerulean blue upper ground with large pale grey-taupe sculptural forms flanking the figure like twisted columns or sentinel presences. Figure painted in warm flesh tones against the vivid blue. Theatrical and architectural — the flanking forms give every subject a dramatic escort.
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, astonished, tight cropping, dramatic architectural staging in cerulean blue with pale sculptural presences
Saturated yellow ground with vertical streaks and drips of red orange and blue running through the composition like paint in motion. Figure painted in warm flesh and orange-red tones fully absorbed into the blazing ground. Hot gestural and overwhelming.
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, astonished, tight cropping, executed in urgent expressionist strokes, flesh and ground merging in volcanic color