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 nude subject with averted eyes, facing aside, body canted, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, powerful dark-ground graphite technique with bold gestural strokes
Soft impressionist brushwork in pale pinks greens and blues with floral forms in the background. Delicate and luminous. The figure feels alive with light and colour.
Portrait of nude subject with averted eyes, facing aside, body canted, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, loose impressionist technique, glowing with pinks, greens, and blues
Warm painterly rendering with a rocky stone background in cool grey and blue. The figure feels grounded and real. Naturalistic and unfussy.
Portrait of nude subject with averted eyes, facing aside, body canted, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, grounded figurative painting, warm hues on cool stone
Pale cool ground with ghostly figurative forms emerging from the background. Soft and ethereal. The figure shares the space with phantom presences.
Portrait of nude subject with averted eyes, facing aside, body canted, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, cool-toned figurative work where forms dissolve into spectral, atmospheric haze
Cool grey with large rounded boulder forms filling the background. The figure stands in front rather than integrating with the surface.
Portrait of nude subject with averted eyes, facing aside, body canted, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, cool-toned stone backdrop of rounded boulders, figure distinct in front
Bold red and black sweeping curves frame the figure against a pale blue-white centre. The background generates dramatic looping forms that enclose the composition like a frame. Sensuous and immediate with high graphic energy.
Portrait of nude subject with averted eyes, facing aside, body canted, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, sensuous high-contrast composition of sweeping curves in red, black, and cool white
Deep cobalt blue and warm golden-yellow geometric planes fill the entire image. The figure is rendered in the same luminous yellow as the background geometry. Bold and immediate with figure and ground sharing a single warm-cool palette.
Portrait of nude subject with averted eyes, facing aside, body canted, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, in a bold warm-cool palette of cobalt and gold geometric forms
Dark blue border frames a cool interior of rounded boulder forms in pale blue and stone. Figure is warm and painterly against the cool surround. The vignette framing gives a distinctive painting-within-a-painting quality. Cool and composed with real painterly substance.
Portrait of nude subject with averted eyes, facing aside, body canted, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, painterly composition with dark border framing and cool sculptural tones
Cool teal and blue with swirling rounded organic forms creating a vortex-like background. Dark border frames the composition. Figure is warm against the cool oceanic surround. Dynamic and fluid — the background has genuine rotational energy. Related to Blue Organ but more oceanic than biological.
Portrait of nude subject with averted eyes, facing aside, body canted, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, painted with spiraling aquatic energy, rounded fluid shapes, and deep border framing
Dark charcoal and deep purple flank large pale glowing rock or ice forms behind the figure. Scattered leaf shapes in the upper corners add a decorative note. Figure is warm against the luminous pale centre. Dramatic contrast between glowing stone and dark surround. Moody and painterly.
Portrait of nude subject with averted eyes, facing aside, body canted, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, dramatic chiaroscuro in charcoal and purple with scattered leaf motifs
Luminous white cloud forms fill the background with dark charcoal tendril or vine-like marks threading through them. Cool blue-grey at the base. Figure painted in warm flesh tones against the pale open surround. Looser and more organic than Pale Damask — botanical rather than decorative.
Portrait of nude subject with averted eyes, facing aside, body canted, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, organic botanical style, pale open surround with loose dark linear marks
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 nude subject with averted eyes, facing aside, body canted, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, executed in urgent expressionist strokes, flesh and ground merging in volcanic color