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 nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, dramatic stone forms in rich ochre and taupe, old master style
Pale white and grey with soft angular background forms and warm red accents. Light and airy. The figure feels illuminated from within.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, light airy composition with geometric background forms and glowing inner radiance
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 from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, sculptural figure work with clean bold shapes and fluid organic background forms
Pale cool ground with ghostly figurative forms emerging from the background. Soft and ethereal. The figure shares the space with phantom presences.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, soft ethereal style with phantom presences emerging from pale, diffused grounds
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 nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, warmly rendered figure against a ghostly, dreamy expanse of cool muted tones
Cool grey and blue-white angular stone planes fill the background like a quarry face. Figure is clean and graphic against the fractured surround. Pale and architectural — precise rather than painterly. Strong structural character throughout.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, clean graphic figure against fractured stone-like angular planes in pale grey tones
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 from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, soft cream background with rounded decorative shapes in earthy rust tones, ornamental and warm
Cool blue taupe and pale rose with rounded smooth boulder forms filling the background. Figure is warm and confident against the cool stone surround. Naturalistic and grounded — the background reads as river-worn stone rather than angular rock. Softer and more painterly than Blue Granite.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, warm figure set against cool rounded boulder forms, painterly and grounded
Dark near-black ground with large pale rounded forms glowing with cool violet-grey light and teal edge highlights. Figure stands warm against the luminous floating masses. The orbs read as buoyant and light-catching rather than geological — strange and quietly spectacular.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, cool glowing masses float in near-black space with warm figure contrast
Pale watercolour-like ground with soft grey-blue shadow marks and rose-pink accents catching at knees hands and floor. Dark forms loom in the upper corners. The surface has a first-pull silkscreen quality — colour present but not yet fully arrived. Delicate and slightly unresolved.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, silkscreen-like, colour barely arrived, delicate and unresolved
Luminous white cloud forms fill the background with dark charcoal tendril or vine-like marks threading through them. Cool blue-grey at the base. Figure painted in warm flesh tones against the pale open surround. Looser and more organic than Pale Damask — botanical rather than decorative.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, soft cloudlike ground with charcoal vine tracery and cool blue-grey base
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 from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, angular blocks of cool light and warm figure, bright and airy