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 making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, astonished, traditional bust cropping, rendered in cool grey tones with soft rounded boulder forms
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 making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, astonished, traditional bust cropping, rendered in bold red and black sweeping curves with graphic intensity
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 making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, astonished, traditional bust cropping, in bold cobalt and gold geometric planes, De Stijl-inspired
Warm cream and pale blue with large flowing draped forms filling the background. The figure is naturalistically rendered in warm flesh tones against the sculptural surround. Calm and considered with a classical drapery quality.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, astonished, traditional bust cropping, in warm cream and pale blue with flowing classical drapery
Cool blue-grey palette with chunky broken brushwork throughout. Background generates irregular boulder or cloud-like forms in blue grey and muted brown. Figure merges softly with the cool ground. Loose and painterly with a raw textural quality.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, astonished, traditional bust cropping, in a loose painterly style with chunky brushwork and cool blue-grey tones
Cool grey and blue-white angular stone planes fill the background like a quarry face. Figure is clean and graphic against the fractured surround. Pale and architectural — precise rather than painterly. Strong structural character throughout.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, astonished, traditional bust cropping, rendered in cool grey and blue-white angular stone planes, precise and architectural
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 making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, astonished, traditional bust cropping, rendered in cool blues and warm painterly strokes with vignette framing
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 nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, astonished, traditional bust cropping, in a soft romantic style with cool blue-mauve florals and warm painterly brushwork
Near-white ground with cool blue outline marks describing figure and background in the same delicate line. Rounded organic forms in the background share the same blueprint-like character. Minimal and elegant — the figure exists as cool blue drawing on white. Light and immediately distinctive.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, astonished, traditional bust cropping, rendered in delicate cool blue line on near-white, minimal and elegant
Rich impasto in warm plum-mauve and cool blue with large loose visible brushstrokes unifying figure and background. Background generates rounded organic forms from the same energetic brushwork. The surface is alive throughout — one of the more genuinely painterly styles in the set.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, astonished, traditional bust cropping, rendered in thick impasto with plum-mauve and cool blue, brushwork unifying figure and ground
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 nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, astonished, traditional bust cropping, rendered in vivid cerulean blue with monumental sculptural forms in pale grey-taupe
Pale warm peach ground with massive sweeping black forms rendered in bold gestural marks at cave-painting scale. Figure painted naturalistically and relatively small against the dominant primitive marks. Raw and monumental.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, astonished, traditional bust cropping, in raw gestural black on warm peach, monumental cave-scale marks dwarfing the figure