Pale cool ground with ghostly figurative forms emerging from the background. Soft and ethereal. The figure shares the space with phantom presences.
Portrait of a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body canted, arms up, tight cropping, soft ethereal style with phantom presences emerging from pale, diffused grounds
Pale warm-grey with large fractured stone and architectural planes filling the background. The figure is warm-toned and well-integrated against the cool monumental surround. The background generates a sense of broken wall or collapsed structure.
Portrait of a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body canted, arms up, tight cropping, depicted with warm integration into a cool, collapsed architectural surround
Cool grey crosshatch and gestural marks fill the background with organic forms emerging from the surface. The figure is sketched rather than rendered with loose confident line. Immediate and alive with a life-drawing energy.
Portrait of a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body canted, arms up, tight cropping, rendered in spontaneous life-drawing lines and grey hatching
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 a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body canted, arms up, tight cropping, layered with calligraphic blue-grey inscriptions beneath warm figurative passages
Deep warm brown with large rounded forms generating ghostly face-like shapes in the background. The figure stands before a surround of watching presences under a rounded arch. Dark and atmospheric with an unsettling warmth.
Portrait of a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body canted, arms up, tight cropping, painted in warm brown with ghostly presences emerging from atmospheric darkness
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 a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body canted, arms up, tight cropping, bold figure repeated in an ordered grid of warm and cool tones, slightly surreal
Cream sand and dark charcoal in large irregular mosaic pieces — Roman floor tile or unearthed archaeological surface. Figure integrates into the mosaic ground. Neutral and substantial rather than energetic. Background has a genuinely ancient and excavated quality.
Portrait of a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body canted, arms up, tight cropping, depicted as ancient excavated mosaic, figure merging with weathered stone fragments
Entire surface broken into dense confident brushstrokes in cool blue-grey and white — figure and ground unified in the same energetic mark-making. The figure is present but woven into the surface rather than sitting on it. Cool silvery and kinetic.
Portrait of a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body canted, arms up, tight cropping, in dense, energetic strokes that merge figure and ground in silvery blue
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 nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body canted, arms up, tight cropping, painted in hot fauvist tones where figure dissolves into blazing streaked color fields
Large angular faceted planes in pale blue-grey white and cream cover the entire surface like crumpled paper or crushed ice. Figure painted in warm flesh tones sits gently against the cool crystalline ground. Precise delicate and icy.
Portrait of a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body canted, arms up, tight cropping, painted with precise crystalline geometry in cool white and warm flesh tones
Near-white ground with sparse irregular dark forms in grey-brown and warm taupe scattered at the edges and base. Figure painted in warm flesh tones with precise dark line standing clearly in the open white field. Bright airy and uncluttered.
Portrait of a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body canted, arms up, tight cropping, sparse ink forms in grey-brown and taupe framing a bright airy white field
Dense looping gestural marks fill the ground in cool grey dusty rose and muted red. Teal accents throughout. Figure stands pale against a restless tangled surround. Animated and decorative.
Portrait of a nude subject with arms up, diverted eyes, body canted, arms up, tight cropping, in an animated decorative style with tangled gestural marks in cool dusty tones and teal