Strong graphite on dark ground with bold sweeping strokes filling the background. High contrast and dramatic. The figure stands in a storm of marks!
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, traditional bust cropping, powerful dark-ground graphite technique with bold gestural strokes
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 nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, traditional bust cropping, loose impressionist technique, glowing with pinks, greens, and blues
Pale cool ground with ghostly figurative forms emerging from the background. Soft and ethereal. The figure shares the space with phantom presences.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, traditional bust cropping, cool-toned figurative work where forms dissolve into spectral, atmospheric haze
Warm grey with bold swirling painterly forms in the background. The figure feels modelled rather than painted. Sculptural and considered.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, traditional bust cropping, against gestural painted forms in warm grey, the figure sculpted with careful depth
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 square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, traditional bust cropping, warm painterly style with rounded rock forms in blush and mauve creating a cave-like atmospheric background
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 nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, traditional bust cropping, in large irregular cream and dark mosaic pieces with an unearthed archaeological quality
Warm sepia-tan ground with visible canvas or linen texture throughout. Background generates loose angular-organic dark forms — primitive architectural fragments or crude masks. The whole surface has a warm parchment quality. Textured and slightly hallucinatory.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, traditional bust cropping, in earthy sepia with crude architectural fragments dissolving into hallucinatory textured warmth
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 nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, traditional bust cropping, in textured rose-pink and ochre impasto, figure merging warmly with floral surround
Pale white and cool grey central forms flanked by deep burnt orange-red on both sides — bleached columns between dark ember wings. Figure stands in the pale central zone against the dramatic warm surround. High contrast and architectural — cool centre held between walls of fire.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, traditional bust cropping, high-contrast palette of cool grey columns against smouldering orange-red surrounds
Pale near-white ground with loose organic forms in cool blue-grey and warm taupe floating around the figure like torn fragments drifting in open space. Figure painted in warm golden flesh tones with loose painterly marks. Airy and open with generous white space throughout.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, traditional bust cropping, airy and spacious, warm taupe and blue-grey forms drifting freely on a near-white ground
Large rounded cloud-like forms in white and cool grey fill the background with soft dark contour lines defining the volumes. Figure painted in warm flesh tones with clean precise line standing clearly against the pale airy ground. Gentle sculptural and softly drawn.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, traditional bust cropping, warm figure tones contrasting softly drawn cool backgrounds with delicate line
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 square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, traditional bust cropping, in a crisp graphic style, warm tones contrasting a cool grey-white stone wall