Warm brown and taupe tones with dramatic rocky stone forms flanking the figure. Painterly and classical in feel. The figure and background feel genuinely integrated.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, cropped at the hip, rendered in warm earth tones with painterly classical technique
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, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, cropped at the hip, rendered in cool grey tones with swirling marks and ghostly layered faces
Soft mauve and dusty pink with large rounded stone forms filling the background. The figure is warm-toned against a cool muted surround. The background generates a gentle grotto of pale organic shapes.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, cropped at the hip, rendered in soft mauve and dusty pink with rounded stone forms and warm-toned figure
Warm flesh and pale blue with tiled repeated copies of the figure filling the background in an ordered grid. The central figure stands before a wall of its own reflections. Distinctive and slightly disorienting with a pop multiplicity.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, cropped at the hip, rendered in warm flesh tones and pale blue with a pop-art grid of repeated figures
Deep navy and charcoal with ghosted shrouded figures flanking the central form — veiled presences closing in from either side. Figure stands exposed against the dark threatening surround. More menacing than Fallen Angel — the flanking forms feel actively hostile. Dark and genuinely unsettling.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, cropped at the hip, rendered in deep navy and charcoal with ghosted figures looming from the shadows
Deep navy and cobalt with rounded organic forms in the background — ghostly skull-like faces scattered through the dark blue ground. Figure is cool and pale against the haunted surround. Oceanic and eerie rather than overtly threatening. Dark and distinctly unsettling.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, cropped at the hip, rendered in deep navy and cobalt with pale ghostly forms lurking in organic shadows
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, cropped at the hip, rendered in swirling teal and blue with fluid vortex energy and a dark framing border
Deep crimson and burgundy geometric planes sweep through the background in large bold angular forms. Figure rendered in pale white-grey tones against the rich red surround. Dramatic and saturated — the red commands the image. Architectural but warm-blooded.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, cropped at the hip, in bold geometric planes of deep crimson and cool grey
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 nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, cropped at the hip, in warm rose, cream, and ochre impasto with thick generous brushwork
Pale azure ground with large draped forms described in clean dark contour line. Figure rendered in the same decisive line with warm flesh tones. One of the more reliably flattering styles available. The clean line finds and elevates the essential form in almost any source.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, cropped at the hip, rendered in bold dark contour line on pale blue ground with warm flesh tones
Pure black ground with a single massive pale column dominating the centre in fine cracked mosaic texture. Figure merges with the column surface as if carved into weathered ancient stone. Monumental and slightly eerie — figure and pillar become one.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, cropped at the hip, rendered in cracked pale mosaic against deep black, figure and stone fused
Pale near-white ground with loose organic forms in cool blue-grey and warm taupe floating around the figure like torn fragments drifting in open space. Figure painted in warm golden flesh tones with loose painterly marks. Airy and open with generous white space throughout.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, cropped at the hip, rendered in pale washes with drifting cool and warm fragments on an open white ground