Dark grey with cave-like grotto forms in the background. Hints of pink and mauve bleed through the stone texture. Cooler and moodier than Cool Slate.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, lingerie, smiling, tight cropping, moody cave-grey palette with pink and mauve seeping through textured stone
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 partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, lingerie, smiling, tight cropping, dramatic stone forms in rich ochre and taupe, old master style
Soft impressionist brushwork in pale pinks greens and blues with floral forms in the background. Delicate and luminous. The figure feels alive with light and colour.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, lingerie, smiling, tight cropping, luminous impressionist style with pale floral tones and delicate brushwork
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 partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, lingerie, smiling, tight cropping, soft tactile stonework with embedded, sculpted depth
Sandy ochre and warm stone tones with the background generating a clear arch and flanking walls that frame the figure in a niche. Painterly and naturalistic with strong architectural presence. The figure feels placed rather than imposed.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, lingerie, smiling, tight cropping, painterly naturalism set within a sculpted niche of sandy warm tones
Warm cream and pale pink with tall flowing organic forms filling the background. A fine woven texture maps figure and ground throughout. Warm and tactile with a gentle flowing quality.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, lingerie, smiling, tight cropping, soft tactile weave of pale pink and cream, organic forms rippling through figure and ground
Pale ground with a dense blue-grey pattern of text-like or script-like marks filling the background. The figure is rendered in warm flesh tones over the inscribed surface. Distinctive and layered with an archaeological quality.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, lingerie, smiling, tight cropping, layered with calligraphic blue-grey inscriptions beneath warm figurative passages
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, lingerie, smiling, tight cropping, dramatic jagged mountain forms in cool gestural strokes framing a warmly painted subject
Dark charcoal and deep purple flank large pale glowing rock or ice forms behind the figure. Scattered leaf shapes in the upper corners add a decorative note. Figure is warm against the luminous pale centre. Dramatic contrast between glowing stone and dark surround. Moody and painterly.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, lingerie, smiling, tight cropping, painterly contrasts of warm figure against luminous rock and shadowed surround
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, lingerie, smiling, tight cropping, soft cloudlike ground with charcoal vine tracery and cool blue-grey base
Deep navy border framing fractured rock-like forms in cool blue-grey and white with vivid scarlet accents. Figure painted in warm flesh tones with red shoes that match the mood exactly. Bold and theatrical — this style turns everything up.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, lingerie, smiling, tight cropping, bold theatrical style with cool blue-grey planes and vivid red accents
Warm rose-pink cream and ochre impasto with large rounded floral forms filling the background in thick generous brushwork. Figure merges warmly with the rosy surround. The muted unsaturated tones read as autumn rather than high summer — abundant but cooling.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body canted, lingerie, smiling, tight cropping, rendered in muted autumnal tones with abundant rounded forms in heavy paint