Rich dark red floral forms fill the background with the figure rendered in warm flesh tones against them. Lush and decorative. The background has real depth and complexity.
Portrait of a subject eyed averted with arms behind, nude, arms behind, astonished, cropped at the hip, rendered in rich decorative style with deep crimson botanicals and glowing flesh tones
Cool grey with swirling marks and ghostly repeated faces emerging from the background. Unsettling and distinctive. The figure stands in a crowd of shadows.
Portrait of a subject eyed averted with arms behind, nude, arms behind, astonished, cropped at the hip, eerie repeated figures emerge from shadowy grey backgrounds with expressive gestural marks
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 a subject eyed averted with arms behind, nude, arms behind, astonished, cropped at the hip, soft tactile stonework with embedded, sculpted depth
Dark ground with dense organic cellular forms in muted pinks and greys. The pattern fills the space completely. The figure pushes through but the surface competes.
Portrait of a subject eyed averted with arms behind, nude, arms behind, astonished, cropped at the hip, biological patterning in dusty rose and grey overwhelms the pictorial surface
Warm sepia and grey-brown tones over a heavily layered textured surface. The background generates dark flanking forms that read like weathered or torn paper. The figure feels retrieved from an aged document rather than a contemporary image.
Portrait of a subject eyed averted with arms behind, nude, arms behind, astonished, cropped at the hip, aged document aesthetic with dark flanking forms and weathered paper surfaces
Cool grey with large angular fractured rock forms flanking the figure on both sides. The figure is warmly rendered in flesh tones against the cool jagged surround. Naturalistic and grounded with a raw stone quality.
Portrait of a subject eyed averted with arms behind, nude, arms behind, astonished, cropped at the hip, rendered with angular rock forms in cool grey framing warm naturalistic figure painting
Cool blue-grey palette with chunky broken brushwork throughout. Background generates irregular boulder or cloud-like forms in blue grey and muted brown. Figure merges softly with the cool ground. Loose and painterly with a raw textural quality.
Portrait of a subject eyed averted with arms behind, nude, arms behind, astonished, cropped at the hip, rendered in raw textural strokes with muted blue-grey and brown tones
Cool cerulean blue and cream in large flat geometric planes. Figure is warm against the cool blue geometry — a clean warm-cool contrast. Elegant and graphic rather than sensuous. Background generates smooth rounded geometric forms in deep and pale blue.
Portrait of a subject eyed averted with arms behind, nude, arms behind, astonished, cropped at the hip, bold flat geometry in deep and pale blue, warm figure against cool graphic forms
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, nude, arms behind, astonished, cropped at the hip, rich textured paint surface, loose energetic strokes in warm plum and blue throughout
Warm ochre tan and mauve-rose rock forms fill the background in loose painterly strokes with teal-green shadow accents. Figure rendered in warm flesh tones that merge naturally with the sun-baked surround. Dusty and warm — the palette of old stone walls in strong afternoon light.
Portrait of a subject eyed averted with arms behind, nude, arms behind, astonished, cropped at the hip, warm flesh tones blending into dusty rock forms in a painterly afternoon palette
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 a subject eyed averted with arms behind, nude, arms behind, astonished, cropped at the hip, 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 a subject eyed averted with arms behind, nude, arms behind, astonished, cropped at the hip, soft cloudlike ground with charcoal vine tracery and cool blue-grey base