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 making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, 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 nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, cropped at the waist, unsettling grey palette, ghostly crowd of faces dissolving into swirling textured shadow
Cool grey with a prominent marble or stone form behind the figure. Elegant and architectural. The figure is framed rather than consumed by the background.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, cropped at the waist, cool-toned marble architecture as backdrop, geometric and refined, figure clearly defined
Warm sandy stone with rounded cobble-like forms filling the background. Soft and tactile. The figure feels set into the surface rather than placed in front of it.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, cropped at the waist, earthy cobblestone surface, figure integrated into rounded relief forms
Pure monochrome grey with large geometric faceted planes filling the background. The figure is folded into the same angular surface rather than modelled in the round. Precise and cool with no colour anywhere in the image.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, cropped at the waist, strict angular planes, no colour, figure folded into geometric surfaces
Pale grey with bold dark contour line and flat rose-pink colour fills on shadows and forms. Rocky cloud-like forms fill the background in the same graphic style. Immediate and illustration-like with a strong linear character.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, cropped at the waist, strong linear style with flat pink fills and rocky cloud forms in pale grey
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 nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, cropped at the waist, monolithic grey-pink surface, body fused with architectural weight
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, cropped at the waist, painted with broken brushwork, cool palette, figure dissolving into textured ground
Pale white and cool grey-green ground shattered into large angular planes by bold dark outlines. Figure described in confident contour with minimal interior rendering. Background generates broken geometric shapes like fractured ice. Clean and immediate with strong graphic authority.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, cropped at the waist, clean graphic style with confident line work and shattered angular forms in pale cool tones
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, cropped at the waist, gestural impasto painting, organic forms emerging from unified brushwork in mauve and blue
Deep indigo and navy forms fill the background in large bold brushstrokes with warm brown-ochre accents. Figure stands in pale blue-grey tones against the turbulent dark surround. Rich impasto character with genuine menace — the dark masses press in from all sides.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, cropped at the waist, thick impasto painting, turbulent dark surround in deep blue and ochre against pale grey figure
Warm teak-brown and golden angular planes fill the background in strong tonal modelling — carved wood or folded leather rendered in faceted geometry. Figure merges into the same warm brown tonal range. Rich and unified — the entire image breathes in one warm key.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, cropped at the waist, strong tonal modelling in unified amber-brown, geometric warm harmony