Cool blue and lavender with rounded stone forms in the background. Softer and more organic than it first appears. The palette runs from ice blue to soft purple.
Portrait of a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body from the side, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in cool blues and lavender with smooth, rounded stone forms
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 a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body from the side, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in bold graphite on dark ground with dramatic sweeping 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 a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body from the side, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in cool grey tones with swirling marks and ghostly layered faces
Pale cool ground with ghostly figurative forms emerging from the background. Soft and ethereal. The figure shares the space with phantom presences.
Portrait of a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body from the side, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in pale, cool tones with ghostly figures dissolving into misty backgrounds
Warm pink and mauve with large rounded boulder forms filling the background. The figure is naturalistically rendered and pops with sharp presence against the soft stone surround. Painterly and warm with a grotto-like depth to the background.
Portrait of a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body from the side, arms up, traditional bust cropping, painted in warm pink and mauve tones with soft rounded stone forms receding into grotto-like depth
Cool silver-grey throughout with large rounded cloud-like forms in a scaled pattern filling the background. The figure is rendered in the same silver tones as the surround with the face pushed to near-white. Unified and cool with a single luminous focal point.
Portrait of a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body from the side, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in cool silver-grey tones with rounded cloud-like scaled forms
Cool blue-purple ground with fragmented cream and gold shapes behind a confident figure. Background generates a broken tile or stained glass quality. Bold and slightly psychedelic in register. Figure holds coherence against the fractured surround.
Portrait of a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body from the side, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in fractured blue-violet and gold, like shattered stained glass
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 a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body from the side, arms up, traditional bust cropping, in a loose painterly style with chunky brushwork and cool blue-grey tones
Warm coral mauve yellow and soft blue in rounded organic fragmented planes. Background generates large abstract sculptural forms in a rich mixed palette. Figure holds coherence against the colourful surround. Energetic and warm — vivid without the intensity of hotter styles.
Portrait of a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body from the side, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in warm coral, mauve, and soft blue fragmented planes with sculptural depth
Warm rose and crimson with large flanking figurative forms swirling around the central figure. Background generates ghosted body shapes in pink and deep charcoal — reflected or echoed presences closing in. Figure stands in a surround of its own warm shadows. Intimate and confrontational.
Portrait of a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body from the side, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in warm rose and crimson with swirling figurative forms and ghosted shadow presences
Large rounded organic forms in cream pale gold and soft teal-grey pack the background like a mass of open oyster shells. Figure painted in warm flesh tones with the same impasto weight as the surrounding forms. Lush and sculptural — the figure is held rather than swamped.
Portrait of a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body from the side, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in thick impasto with rounded organic forms in cream, gold, and soft teal-grey
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 a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body from the side, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in dense impasto strokes of grey-white and deep burgundy