Dense ink crosshatch on pale ground with swirling figurative forms filling the background. Engraving-like in character. The line maps the figure with forensic intensity.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, smiling, traditional bust cropping, forensic ink linework builds form through layered crosshatching on pale ground
Cool grey with large rounded boulder forms filling the background. The figure stands in front rather than integrating with the surface.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, smiling, traditional bust cropping, large smooth rock shapes receding behind a foregrounded figure
Cool grey with large sculptural rock forms in the background. Painterly and soft. The figure sits comfortably in front of the surface.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, smiling, traditional bust cropping, cool grey tones, loose brushwork, monumental rock forms softly rendered
Warm painterly impasto with tall organic forms flanking the figure in muted golds blues and pinks. Loose and gestural. The figure stands in a gallery of painted shapes.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, smiling, traditional bust cropping, loose gestural brushwork with organic forms in dusty warm tones
Warm grey with bold swirling painterly forms in the background. The figure feels modelled rather than painted. Sculptural and considered.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, smiling, traditional bust cropping, rendered in expressive swirling greys with a considered, three-dimensional quality
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 partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, smiling, traditional bust cropping, naturalistic figure rendered with sharp presence against painterly pink and mauve boulders
Cool blue-white fractured rock forms flank the figure with warm brown earth tones at the base. The background generates a raw cave-like surround with a primal quality. Naturalistic and grounded with genuine geological character.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, smiling, traditional bust cropping, naturalistic cave setting with raw geological textures and primal depth
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 partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, smiling, traditional bust cropping, bold psychedelic mosaic of cool purples and broken cream-gold fragments
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 partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, smiling, traditional bust cropping, with angular burgundy forms and pale sculptural figure work
Warm cream impasto background covered in large swirling floral forms — the brocade fabric of a sofa that was never meant to be sat on. Figure rendered in warm flesh tones that merge politely with the respectable surround. Comfortable and slightly suffocating.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, smiling, traditional bust cropping, painted with merging warm tones and heavy brushwork evoking ornate upholstered comfort
Entire surface broken into dense confident brushstrokes in cool blue-grey and white — figure and ground unified in the same energetic mark-making. The figure is present but woven into the surface rather than sitting on it. Cool silvery and kinetic.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, smiling, traditional bust cropping, in dense, energetic strokes that merge figure and ground in silvery blue
Large rounded cloud-like forms in white and cool grey fill the background with soft dark contour lines defining the volumes. Figure painted in warm flesh tones with clean precise line standing clearly against the pale airy ground. Gentle sculptural and softly drawn.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, smiling, traditional bust cropping, gentle sculptural forms with clean contour lines and an airy, cloud-like ground