Cool grey with a prominent marble or stone form behind the figure. Elegant and architectural. The figure is framed rather than consumed by the background.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, very tight cropping, elegant stone backdrop in cool grey, figure distinctly framed against structured form
Cool grey with large rounded boulder forms filling the background. The figure stands in front rather than integrating with the surface.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, very tight cropping, large smooth rock shapes receding behind a foregrounded figure
Cool blue-grey stone block architecture fills the background with arched recesses and layered masonry. The figure is warm-toned against a cool structured surround. Painterly and grounded with a classical architectural presence.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, very tight cropping, soft brushwork evoking Renaissance masonry in muted blue-grey and warm flesh tones
Warm pink and mauve with large rounded boulder forms filling the background. The figure is naturalistically rendered and pops with sharp presence against the soft stone surround. Painterly and warm with a grotto-like depth to the background.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, very tight cropping, naturalistic figure rendered with sharp presence against painterly pink and mauve boulders
Pale lavender and cool grey with tall vertical forms and ghostly figurative shapes emerging from the background. The figure stands in a softly haunted interior. Atmospheric and slightly unsettling with a delicate palette.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, very tight cropping, tall vertical forms emerge from a softly haunted interior in delicate, unsettling hues
Warm rose and crimson with large flanking figurative forms swirling around the central figure. Background generates ghosted body shapes in pink and deep charcoal — reflected or echoed presences closing in. Figure stands in a surround of its own warm shadows. Intimate and confrontational.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, very tight cropping, bold flanking figures in deep charcoal and pink, intimate and confrontational oil style
Cool silver-grey and white monochrome with large rounded rock or ice forms filling the background. Figure rendered in the same cool tones and merging with the pale sculptural surround. Arctic and glacial in character — cold light on cold stone.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, very tight cropping, pale arctic tones, rounded ice-like shapes absorbing figure and ground into one cold mass
Warm cream impasto background covered in large swirling floral forms — the brocade fabric of a sofa that was never meant to be sat on. Figure rendered in warm flesh tones that merge politely with the respectable surround. Comfortable and slightly suffocating.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, very tight cropping, painted with merging warm tones and heavy brushwork evoking ornate upholstered comfort
Warm brown-ochre surround with elaborate white marble sculptural forms filling the background — baroque fountain or ornate palace relief with faces and figures visible in the carved masses. Figure stands in warm flesh tones against the opulent white marble. Grand and slightly overwhelming.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, very tight cropping, painted with opulent carved marble figures and warm flesh tones in baroque grandeur
Flat irregular stone forms in cool grey-white with dark crack lines fill the background like a rendered stone wall. Figure painted in warm flesh tones with precise dark outline standing clearly in front of the flat pale ground. Clean graphic and architectural.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, very tight cropping, rendered with clean outlines and flat pale architectural stonework behind
Dense swirling gestural marks in cool grey-white and deep burgundy-red. Dark turbulent forms flank a pale central figure. Heavy impasto quality throughout. Brooding and theatrical.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, very tight cropping, with turbulent gestural marks in cool greys and dramatic crimson
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 nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, very tight cropping, in an animated decorative style with tangled gestural marks in cool dusty tones and teal