Strong graphite on dark ground with bold sweeping strokes filling the background. High contrast and dramatic. The figure stands in a storm of marks!
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, cropped at the waist, powerful dark-ground graphite technique with bold gestural strokes
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, cropped at the waist, unsettling grey palette, ghostly crowd of faces dissolving into swirling textured shadow
Pale cool ground with ghostly figurative forms emerging from the background. Soft and ethereal. The figure shares the space with phantom presences.
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, cropped at the waist, cool-toned figurative work where forms dissolve into spectral, atmospheric haze
Warm painterly impasto with tall organic forms flanking the figure in muted golds blues and pinks. Loose and gestural. The figure stands in a gallery of painted shapes.
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, cropped at the waist, painterly and expressive, thick impasto in soft golds and faded pinks
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, cropped at the waist, warm creamy palette, fine textile texture, gentle flowing shapes filling the composition
Dusty mauve-grey stone texture absorbs the figure into the surface. Body reads as shallow relief rather than figure against background. Cool and permanent — the source becomes architecture.
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, cropped at the waist, monolithic grey-pink surface, body fused with architectural weight
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, cropped at the waist, confident warm figure against a luminous cream field of suggested ghostly forms
Near-black ground with slashing crimson and deep red forms flanking the figure. Figure is pale and exposed against the dark threatening surround. Darker and more menacing than Crimson Stage — the black dominates with red as accent. Dramatic and confrontational.
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, cropped at the waist, menacing dark palette where black overwhelms with threatening crimson slashes
Cool blue and mauve with large rounded petal-like forms filling the background — abstract roses with a crystalline flash. Figure is warm and painterly against the cool floral surround. Soft and romantic but with a sparkling edge. Distinctive and immediately appealing.
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, cropped at the waist, in a romantic painterly style with abstract roses, cool crystal tones, and luminous warmth
Deep cobalt blue background with warm golden-yellow forms bursting outward in bold impasto. Figure painted in warm cream and flesh tones at the centre of the energy. Theatrical and baroque — stormy sky with golden light breaking through. One of the more dramatically coloured styles in the set.
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, cropped at the waist, theatrical oil painting style with stormy cobalt and bursting warm gold
Full monochrome in cool charcoal tones with deep sculptural shadows. Background generates large dark organic forms flanking the figure like stage curtains. Finds and amplifies the dramatic potential in any source — tension is always present.
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, cropped at the waist, cool-toned charcoal rendering where shadows build tension and depth
Cool blue-grey and warm ochre-gold impasto with large diagonal brushstrokes creating a herringbone pattern across the entire surface. Figure and background unified in the same energetic mark-making. Flattering and enveloping — this style wraps its subject in warmth and movement.
Portrait of partially dressed subject with averted eyes, body canted, street clothes, cropped at the waist, expressive impasto in blue-grey and ochre-gold, energetic herringbone marks enveloping the subject