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, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, traditional bust cropping, sculptural figure work with clean bold shapes and fluid organic background forms
Warm sandy stone with rounded cobble-like forms filling the background. Soft and tactile. The figure feels set into the surface rather than placed in front of it.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, traditional bust cropping, soft tactile stonework with embedded, sculpted depth
Cool grey with large rounded boulder forms filling the background. The figure stands in front rather than integrating with the surface.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, traditional bust cropping, large smooth rock shapes receding behind a foregrounded figure
Bold red and black sweeping curves frame the figure against a pale blue-white centre. The background generates dramatic looping forms that enclose the composition like a frame. Sensuous and immediate with high graphic energy.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, traditional bust cropping, dramatic looping forms in red and black enclose a pale luminous centre
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, smiling, traditional bust cropping, pale organic shapes form a gentle grotto of cool muted tones behind a warm figure
Warm peach gold and dusty mauve fragments spiral behind a coherent figure. Background generates strong rotational energy — almost kaleidoscopic. Figure holds while the surroundings dissolve into motion. Energetic and flattering to warm sources.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, traditional bust cropping, bold spiral fragments of warm peach and mauve dissolve dynamically around a steady figure
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, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, traditional bust cropping, bold rounded forms in pale blue and stone with a warm central figure
Pale ivory and cream ground with loose scrolling organic forms in terracotta and rust. Background generates rounded decorative shapes — ornamental rather than architectural. Figure is warm and confident against the near-white surround. Distinctive and quietly decorative.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, traditional bust cropping, soft cream background with rounded decorative shapes in earthy rust tones, ornamental and warm
Pale white and cool grey central forms flanked by deep burnt orange-red on both sides — bleached columns between dark ember wings. Figure stands in the pale central zone against the dramatic warm surround. High contrast and architectural — cool centre held between walls of fire.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, traditional bust cropping, bleached architectural forms caught between walls of ember-dark warmth
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, smiling, traditional bust cropping, clean decisive linework on azure ground, draped forms in elegant dark outline
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, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, traditional bust cropping, angular blocks of cool light and warm figure, bright and airy
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, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, traditional bust cropping, bold primitive brushwork in black across a pale peach ground, ancient and elemental