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, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, rendered in expressive swirling greys with a considered, three-dimensional quality
Deep cobalt blue and warm golden-yellow geometric planes fill the entire image. The figure is rendered in the same luminous yellow as the background geometry. Bold and immediate with figure and ground sharing a single warm-cool palette.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, rendered in luminous yellow against deep blue geometric abstraction
Warm flesh and pale blue with tiled repeated copies of the figure filling the background in an ordered grid. The central figure stands before a wall of its own reflections. Distinctive and slightly disorienting with a pop multiplicity.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, bold figure repeated in an ordered grid of warm and cool tones, slightly surreal
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 partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, bold spiral fragments of warm peach and mauve dissolve dynamically around a steady figure
Pale white and cool grey-green ground shattered into large angular planes by bold dark outlines. Figure described in confident contour with minimal interior rendering. Background generates broken geometric shapes like fractured ice. Clean and immediate with strong graphic authority.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, bold contour drawing with fractured geometric background in icy white and grey-green tones
Cool silver and blue with dramatic angular mountain-like forms filling the background — jagged peaks or shattered rock faces in dark gestural marks. Figure is warm and painterly against the powerful cool surround. Alpine and commanding. One of the more dramatically structured backgrounds in this range.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, dramatic jagged mountain forms in cool gestural strokes framing a warmly painted subject
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 partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, cool glowing masses float in near-black space with warm figure contrast
Warm sepia-tan ground with visible canvas or linen texture throughout. Background generates loose angular-organic dark forms — primitive architectural fragments or crude masks. The whole surface has a warm parchment quality. Textured and slightly hallucinatory.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, on aged parchment ground where dark angular mask-shapes surface through visible canvas texture
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, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, with angular burgundy forms and pale sculptural figure work
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 partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, soft cloudlike ground with charcoal vine tracery and cool blue-grey base
Saturated yellow ground with vertical streaks and drips of red orange and blue running through the composition like paint in motion. Figure painted in warm flesh and orange-red tones fully absorbed into the blazing ground. Hot gestural and overwhelming.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, painted in hot fauvist tones where figure dissolves into blazing streaked color fields
Flat irregular stone forms in cool grey-white with dark crack lines fill the background like a rendered stone wall. Figure painted in warm flesh tones with precise dark outline standing clearly in front of the flat pale ground. Clean graphic and architectural.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, rendered with clean outlines and flat pale architectural stonework behind