Deep blue with sweeping fluid forms that merge completely with the figure. The hair explodes into waves that fill the entire image. Figure and style become one thing.
Portrait of a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body canted, nude, cropped at the waist, where hair and form become tidal surges of saturated blue abstraction
Cool blue geometric planes like shattered ice filling the background. The figure is refracted rather than rendered. Cold and crystalline.
Portrait of a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body canted, nude, cropped at the waist, shattered ice facets refracting form into cold angular fragments
Pure monochrome grey with large geometric faceted planes filling the background. The figure is folded into the same angular surface rather than modelled in the round. Precise and cool with no colour anywhere in the image.
Portrait of a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body canted, nude, cropped at the waist, monochrome cubist facets, figure and ground merged in cool grey
Pale grey with bold dark contour line and flat rose-pink colour fills on shadows and forms. Rocky cloud-like forms fill the background in the same graphic style. Immediate and illustration-like with a strong linear character.
Portrait of a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body canted, nude, cropped at the waist, graphic ink illustration with bold contours and dusty pink form shadows
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 a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body canted, nude, cropped at the waist, soft cream background with rounded decorative shapes in earthy rust tones, ornamental and warm
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, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body canted, nude, cropped at the waist, painterly and delicate, with spectral presences softly haunting the pale ground
Near-black ground with slashing crimson and deep red forms flanking the figure. Figure is pale and exposed against the dark threatening surround. Darker and more menacing than Crimson Stage — the black dominates with red as accent. Dramatic and confrontational.
Portrait of a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body canted, nude, cropped at the waist, stark pale figure exposed against dominating black ground with deep red forms
Dark purple and charcoal with frantic swirling forms closing in around the figure. Background generates restless spiralling marks with a distinctly unravelling energy. Figure holds but the surround feels genuinely unstable. Moody and slightly alarming.
Portrait of a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body canted, nude, cropped at the waist, swirling charcoal and purple forms with unravelling, unstable energy
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 a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body canted, nude, cropped at the waist, dramatic jagged mountain forms in cool gestural strokes framing a warmly painted subject
Cool teal and blue with swirling rounded organic forms creating a vortex-like background. Dark border frames the composition. Figure is warm against the cool oceanic surround. Dynamic and fluid — the background has genuine rotational energy. Related to Blue Organ but more oceanic than biological.
Portrait of a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body canted, nude, cropped at the waist, in cool oceanic blues with rotating organic forms and 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 a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body canted, nude, cropped at the waist, silkscreen-like, colour barely arrived, delicate and unresolved
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 a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body canted, nude, cropped at the waist, painted in hot fauvist tones where figure dissolves into blazing streaked color fields