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, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, stark monochrome with controlled shadow and geometric structure
Warm flesh tones with strong painterly modelling against a cool teal-grey ground. The background generates a bold white cloud-like or glacial mass behind the figure. High contrast and corporeal with a sense of cool open light.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, corporeal oil painting style, warm flesh against cool grey with dramatic sculptural light
Warm grey and pale pink with tall flowing organic forms flanking the figure. The background generates shapes that read as draped fabric or slow-moving flame. Painterly and calm with understated movement throughout.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, painterly calm with draped shapes and slow-moving warm-toned forms
Dark blue-grey ground with large pale peach and cream cloud-like forms rising behind the figure. The figure is warmly rendered in flesh tones against the cool dark surround. Painterly and dramatic with a strong light-dark contrast.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, richly painted, warm peach and cream forms glowing against shadowed blue-grey depths
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, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, confident warm figure against a luminous cream field of suggested ghostly forms
Pale ice blue and dark brown in large flat geometric planes — the figure shattered into cool angular fragments. Background dissolves into the same fractured geometry. Stained glass or broken mirror quality throughout. Cool and precise with real graphic authority.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, cool cubist shards of ice blue and deep brown with stark stained-glass graphic force
Cool teal-green and blue-grey background in loose broken brushwork with warm golden flesh tones glowing at the centre. The contrast between sunlit figure and cool watery surround is the defining quality. Luminous and flattering — one of the more beautiful colour combinations in the set.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, fluid broken strokes in blue-grey and teal, sunlit warmth at centre
Warm rose-pink cream and ochre impasto with large rounded floral forms filling the background in thick generous brushwork. Figure merges warmly with the rosy surround. The muted unsaturated tones read as autumn rather than high summer — abundant but cooling.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, in textured rose-pink and ochre impasto, figure merging warmly with floral surround
Pale blue and cream angular planes fill the background in large airy blocks — bright and open rather than heavy. Figure painted in warm flesh tones against the luminous cool ground. Light-filled and confident.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, luminous cubist planes in blue, cream, and confident warm tones
Large irregular pale grey-white forms suggest rough-hewn rock faces receding behind the figure. Cool blue ground visible between the forms. Figure painted in warm flesh tones standing clearly against the pale rocky ground. The figure commands the space with quiet authority.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, figure in warm tones set against irregular pale rock faces with glimpses of cool blue ground
Flat irregular stone forms in cool grey-white with dark crack lines fill the background like a rendered stone wall. Figure painted in warm flesh tones with precise dark outline standing clearly in front of the flat pale ground. Clean graphic and architectural.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, in a crisp graphic style, warm tones contrasting a cool grey-white stone wall
Dense swirling gestural marks in cool grey-white and deep burgundy-red. Dark turbulent forms flank a pale central figure. Heavy impasto quality throughout. Brooding and theatrical.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, subtle jewelry, traditional bust cropping, in brooding theatrical impasto, dark swirling forms framing pale light