Fragments the source into angular colour planes with a cubist edge. Renders consistently in warm reds. The planes find bone structure on faces and body geometry on figures with equal conviction.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, tight cropping, rendered in angular red color planes with cubist geometry
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 nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, tight cropping, rendered in cool grey tones with swirling marks and ghostly layered faces
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 nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, tight cropping, rendered in warm cream and blush tones with tall flowing organic shapes and woven texture
Cool blue lavender and silver with a silky vertical flow in the background — draped fabric or cascading water in cool light. Figure is warm against the pearlescent surround. Iridescent and luminous throughout. One of the more delicate and distinctive backgrounds in this range.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, tight cropping, rendered in cool lavender and silver with silky cascading texture and warm iridescent glow
Dark blue border frames a cool interior of rounded boulder forms in pale blue and stone. Figure is warm and painterly against the cool surround. The vignette framing gives a distinctive painting-within-a-painting quality. Cool and composed with real painterly substance.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, tight cropping, rendered in cool blues and warm painterly strokes with vignette framing
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 nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, tight cropping, rendered in moody oils with glowing pale stone against deep charcoal and purple
Cool ashen blue-grey forms churn through the background in loose gestural marks — chaotic and atmospheric. Figure painted in warm flesh tones against the turbulent cool surround. The background energy dwarfs the figure.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, tight cropping, in loose gestural brushwork with cool ashen blues swirling around warm flesh tones
Pale yellow cream and soft mauve-blue build both figure and background as if a pointillist painting has been gently diffused — dots present but bleeding into each other. Background generates large luminous cloud-like forms in the same soft technique. High-key and summery — luminous rather than crisp.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, tight cropping, rendered in soft pointillist strokes of cream and mauve-blue that bleed into luminous clouds
Cool cream and white ground with strong vertical streaks in deep blue-grey and teal that read like frozen cascades or dripping ice. Figure rendered in the same cool palette with deep shadow and quiet intensity. Large dark organic forms flank the composition like drawn curtains.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, tight cropping, rendered in cool creams and blue-grey with vertical streaks like frozen cascades
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 nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, tight cropping, rendered in bold, unified brushwork of cool blue-grey and white
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 nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, tight cropping, rendered in explosive gestural brushwork with saturated drips bleeding through molten ground
Near-white ground with bold crimson-rose and dark contour lines describing the figure in confident decisive strokes. Minimal background detail keeps the focus entirely on the line. Immediate and graphic with the authority of a strong fashion illustration.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, tight cropping, rendered in bold crimson-rose lines on near-white with graphic fashion illustration confidence