Soft warm pinks and mauves with a lush organic background of rounded floral forms. The figure feels luminous against a rich decorative ground.
Portrait of a subject, eyes averted, with arms behind, nude, astonished, cropped at the hip, painted in soft pinks and mauves with lush rounded floral forms
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 subject, eyes averted, with arms behind, nude, astonished, cropped at the hip, rendered in cool blues and lavender with smooth, rounded stone forms
Cool grey with large sculptural rock forms in the background. Painterly and soft. The figure sits comfortably in front of the surface.
Portrait of a subject, eyes averted, with arms behind, nude, astonished, cropped at the hip, rendered in soft painterly greys with sculptural stone textures
Cool grey with ghostly watching faces filling the background. Unsettling and distinctive. Similar to Ghost Crowd but painterly rather than graphic.
Portrait of a subject, eyes averted, with arms behind, nude, astonished, cropped at the hip, painted in muted grey tones with ghostly faces looming in the background
Pale grey and white with large rounded sculptural forms in the background. Light and airy. The figure feels set against polished stone.
Portrait of a subject, eyes averted, with arms behind, nude, astonished, cropped at the hip, rendered in pale grey and white with soft sculptural forms and an airy, polished atmosphere
Cool grey-brown with tall dark arched panels flanking the figure. The panels carry circular rivet-like forms giving the background a strong industrial character. Stark and architectural with a mechanical edge.
Portrait of a subject, eyes averted, with arms behind, nude, astonished, cropped at the hip, rendered in stark industrial tones with riveted arched panels and cool grey-brown palette
Pale white and cool grey with soft organic forms emerging from the background. The figure is warmly rendered against the ghostly painterly surround. Atmospheric and painterly with a dreamy quality to the open space.
Portrait of a subject, eyes averted, with arms behind, nude, astonished, cropped at the hip, in pale white and cool grey, soft organic forms emerging from an atmospheric painterly ground
Pale grey and warm brown with large rounded cloud-like forms filling the background. The figure is naturalistically rendered in warm flesh tones against the soft organic surround. Painterly and warm with a gentle depth to the background.
Portrait of a subject, eyes averted, with arms behind, nude, astonished, cropped at the hip, painted in warm flesh tones against soft rounded cloud-like forms in pale grey and warm brown
Cool blue and white vertical streaks dissolve the background into a waterfall or melt effect. Warm figure stands confidently against the cool dissolution. Brushwork is loose and expressive rather than geometric. Strong temperature contrast between figure and ground.
Portrait of a subject, eyes averted, with arms behind, nude, astonished, cropped at the hip, rendered in loose brushstrokes with cool blue-white streaks cascading behind a warm central figure
Cool teal and warm taupe with monumental rounded figurative forms filling the background. Central figure stands against oversized sculptural presences — abstract bodies or limbs at enormous scale. Surreal and imposing. The background dominates without consuming the figure.
Portrait of a subject, eyes averted, with arms behind, nude, astonished, cropped at the hip, rendered in cool teal and warm taupe with monumental rounded forms looming behind
Cream sand and dark charcoal in large irregular mosaic pieces — Roman floor tile or unearthed archaeological surface. Figure integrates into the mosaic ground. Neutral and substantial rather than energetic. Background has a genuinely ancient and excavated quality.
Portrait of a subject, eyes averted, with arms behind, nude, astonished, cropped at the hip, rendered in cream and charcoal mosaic tessellations evoking Roman floor tile
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 a subject, eyes averted, with arms behind, nude, astonished, cropped at the hip, rendered in thick impasto with plum-mauve and cool blue, brushwork unifying figure and ground