Cool grey with large sculptural rock forms in the background. Painterly and soft. The figure sits comfortably in front of the surface.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, traditional bust cropping, painterly style with muted greys and large sculptural background forms
Warm pink and grey with tall vertical brushstroke forms filling the background. The figure is naturalistically rendered in warm flesh tones against the streaked surround. Soft and painterly with a textured wall-like quality.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, traditional bust cropping, soft vertical brushwork in muted rose and grey forms a tactile, wall-like backdrop
Warm sandy terracotta with a fine grain texture throughout. The background generates large soft white rounded forms that billow behind the figure. Warm and tactile with an unusual contrast between earthy ground and pale sculptural surround.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, traditional bust cropping, fine-grained terracotta palette with rounded ivory shapes emerging from a warm matte surface
Cool grey crosshatch and gestural marks fill the background with organic forms emerging from the surface. The figure is sketched rather than rendered with loose confident line. Immediate and alive with a life-drawing energy.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, traditional bust cropping, sketched with raw confident strokes and organic crosshatch texture
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 nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, traditional bust cropping, richly painted, warm peach and cream forms glowing against shadowed blue-grey depths
Warm peach gold and dusty mauve fragments spiral behind a coherent figure. Background generates strong rotational energy — almost kaleidoscopic. Figure holds while the surroundings dissolve into motion. Energetic and flattering to warm sources.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, traditional bust cropping, vibrant warm-toned abstraction with spinning dusty mauve and golden peach background motion
Cool cerulean blue and cream in large flat geometric planes. Figure is warm against the cool blue geometry — a clean warm-cool contrast. Elegant and graphic rather than sensuous. Background generates smooth rounded geometric forms in deep and pale blue.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, traditional bust cropping, elegant graphic style with smooth rounded shapes in cool blue and ivory
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, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, traditional bust cropping, painted with spiraling aquatic energy, rounded fluid shapes, and deep border framing
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 nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, traditional bust cropping, fluid broken strokes in blue-grey and teal, sunlit warmth at centre
Deep navy terracotta-red and pale blue-grey rectangular blocks arranged in a stark architectural composition. Figure painted naturalistically in warm flesh tones against the hard-edged colour field. Modernist and uncompromising — colour as architecture.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, traditional bust cropping, rendered in uncompromising color-field geometry with naturalistic warm flesh tones
Pale blue-white ground with large fluid dark forms sweeping in from the sides like heavy shadow or dark marble veining. Figure painted in warm flesh tones with cool blue accents standing clearly in the pale centre. Dramatic and fluid with a marbled quality.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, traditional bust cropping, dramatic marbled contrasts with sweeping dark forms and glowing pale center
Rich teal-green ground with large flowing organic planes in pale cream and white sweeping around the figure like unfurling tropical leaves or petals. Deep teal shadows define the forms. Figure painted in warm flesh tones against the cool botanical ground. Fluid and lush.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, traditional bust cropping, painted with sweeping botanical forms in cool teal and warm ivory