Fragments the source into angular colour planes with a cubist edge. Renders consistently in warm reds. The planes find bone structure on faces and body geometry on figures with equal conviction.
Portrait of a subject eyed averted with arms behind, street clothes, arms behind, astonished, traditional bust cropping, bold angular planes in warm reds, cubist faceting of form
Dissolves the source into pointillist scatter on a pale ground. Warm earth tones of cream rust and burgundy. The figure is readable but barely — features survive as suggestion rather than form.
Portrait of a subject eyed averted with arms behind, street clothes, arms behind, astonished, traditional bust cropping, pointillist fragmentation in cream and burgundy, form hovering at edge of legibility
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 a subject eyed averted with arms behind, street clothes, arms behind, astonished, traditional bust cropping, integrated figure and landscape in warm browns, painterly realism
Soft mauve and dusty pink with a swirling floral pattern filling the background. The figure is warmly rendered against the decorative surround. Flattering and painterly with a rich decorative character.
Portrait of a subject eyed averted with arms behind, street clothes, arms behind, astonished, traditional bust cropping, set against lush swirling pink and mauve botanical patterning
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 eyed averted with arms behind, street clothes, arms behind, astonished, traditional bust cropping, painterly and atmospheric, soft forms dissolving into an open, ghostly white and grey surround
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 a subject eyed averted with arms behind, street clothes, arms behind, astonished, traditional bust cropping, bathed in dark warmth, arched forms conjuring watchful figures from swelling shadow
Warm cream and ivory ground with faint ghosted figure forms visible in the background texture. Painterly and delicate — the spectral presences are suggested rather than stated. Figure is confident and warm against the pale haunted surround. Flattering and quietly distinctive.
Portrait of a subject eyed averted with arms behind, street clothes, arms behind, astonished, traditional bust cropping, confident warm figure against a luminous cream field of suggested ghostly forms
Deep navy and violet flank large pale cloud-like forms at the centre — the composition reads like dark wings around a spotlight. Figure is warm and illuminated against the cool dramatic surround. Ghosted face visible in the lower right adds an eerie presence. Atmospheric and slightly otherworldly.
Portrait of a subject eyed averted with arms behind, street clothes, arms behind, astonished, traditional bust cropping, otherworldly chiaroscuro blending ghosted forms into shadowed surrounds
Cool blue and taupe with angular stone-like geometric forms and a distinctive arched border framing the composition. Background generates fractured architectural planes within the arch. Figure is clean and graphic against the cool structured surround. Architectural and precise with a classical framing quality.
Portrait of a subject eyed averted with arms behind, street clothes, arms behind, astonished, traditional bust cropping, clean graphic forms set against structured angular stonework within a classically arched surround
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 eyed averted with arms behind, street clothes, arms behind, astonished, traditional bust cropping, gestural impasto painting, organic forms emerging from unified brushwork in mauve and blue
Cool blue-grey and near-black with a blazing white centre that backlights the figure dramatically. Large dark organic forms sweep in from both sides like heavy wings or drawn curtains. Figure sits at the threshold of light and shadow in deep cool tones with only traces of warm flesh breaking through.
Portrait of a subject eyed averted with arms behind, street clothes, arms behind, astonished, traditional bust cropping, deep cool palette, blazing backlight, monumental dark shapes converging on a luminous threshold
Large rounded organic forms in cream pale gold and soft teal-grey pack the background like a mass of open oyster shells. Figure painted in warm flesh tones with the same impasto weight as the surrounding forms. Lush and sculptural — the figure is held rather than swamped.
Portrait of a subject eyed averted with arms behind, street clothes, arms behind, astonished, traditional bust cropping, in a lush impasto style where figure and ground share equal painterly mass and warm flesh tones