Pale ground with bold simplified planes and swirling organic forms in the background. The figure becomes sculptural. Clean and immediate.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, traditional bust cropping, rendered in bold simplified planes with swirling organic forms on a pale ground
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, face and body square to the canvas, traditional bust cropping, rendered in cool grey tones with swirling marks and ghostly layered faces
Pure monochrome grey with large geometric faceted planes filling the background. The figure is folded into the same angular surface rather than modelled in the round. Precise and cool with no colour anywhere in the image.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, traditional bust cropping, rendered in faceted grey geometric planes, angular and precise
Warm cream and pale blue with large flowing draped forms filling the background. The figure is naturalistically rendered in warm flesh tones against the sculptural surround. Calm and considered with a classical drapery quality.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, traditional bust cropping, in warm cream and pale blue with flowing classical drapery
Deep teal-blue flanking forms cradle a pale billowing centre with the figure rendered in warm flesh tones. The contrast between cool surround and luminous centre gives the image a soft dream-like quality. Painterly and immediate with a cinematic warmth.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, traditional bust cropping, rendered in painterly teal and warm flesh tones with a luminous, dreaming centre
Deep warm brown with large rounded forms generating ghostly face-like shapes in the background. The figure stands before a surround of watching presences under a rounded arch. Dark and atmospheric with an unsettling warmth.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, traditional bust cropping, rendered in deep umber tones with looming rounded forms suggesting shadowed faces
Dark blue border frames a cool interior of rounded boulder forms in pale blue and stone. Figure is warm and painterly against the cool surround. The vignette framing gives a distinctive painting-within-a-painting quality. Cool and composed with real painterly substance.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, traditional bust cropping, rendered in cool blues and warm painterly strokes with vignette framing
Cool pale blue and cream with tall rounded vertical forms filling the background — standing stones or monoliths in pale stone tones. Figure is warm against the cool ancient surround. Clean and naturalistic with a megalithic presence. Distinctive vertical character sets it apart from other stone styles.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, traditional bust cropping, rendered in cool blue and cream tones with tall pale monolithic forms
Pure black ground with shattered mirror or glass fragments flying outward from the figure in cool silver-white. Figure stands at the centre of the explosion in pale silver tones. Cinematic and high contrast — one of the most dramatically distinctive styles in the set.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, traditional bust cropping, rendered in explosive silver-white shards against pure black, cinematic and high contrast
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 nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, traditional bust cropping, rendered in pale blue and cream geometric planes with warm flesh tones
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, face and body square to the canvas, traditional bust cropping, rendered in pale washes with drifting cool and warm fragments on an open white ground
Pale warm peach ground with massive sweeping black forms rendered in bold gestural marks at cave-painting scale. Figure painted naturalistically and relatively small against the dominant primitive marks. Raw and monumental.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, traditional bust cropping, in raw gestural black on warm peach, monumental cave-scale marks dwarfing the figure