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 nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, cropped at the waist, soft tactile stonework with embedded, sculpted 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, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, cropped at the waist, naturalistic figure rendered with sharp presence against painterly pink and mauve boulders
Deep teal-blue flanking forms cradle a pale billowing centre with the figure rendered in warm flesh tones. The contrast between cool surround and luminous centre gives the image a soft dream-like quality. Painterly and immediate with a cinematic warmth.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, cropped at the waist, cool blue shadows frame a glowing core in loose, cinematic brushwork
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 nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, cropped at the waist, bold figure repeated in an ordered grid of warm and cool tones, slightly surreal
Cool grey and blue-white angular stone planes fill the background like a quarry face. Figure is clean and graphic against the fractured surround. Pale and architectural — precise rather than painterly. Strong structural character throughout.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, cropped at the waist, clean graphic figure against fractured stone-like angular planes in pale grey tones
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, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, cropped at the waist, painted against pearlescent draped fabric in blues and silver with luminous warmth
Pale ice blue and dark brown in large flat geometric planes — the figure shattered into cool angular fragments. Background dissolves into the same fractured geometry. Stained glass or broken mirror quality throughout. Cool and precise with real graphic authority.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, cropped at the waist, fractured angular planes of cool blue and brown dissolve figure into crisp geometry
Dusty rose taupe and cream in large swooping curved geometric planes — the warm counterpart to Teal and Ice. Figure integrates into the geometry in matching warm tones. Soft and unified with the same elegant geometric confidence. Warm and immediately inviting.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, cropped at the waist, rendered in soft unified warm tones with sweeping curved geometry
Dark near-black ground with large pale rounded forms glowing with cool violet-grey light and teal edge highlights. Figure stands warm against the luminous floating masses. The orbs read as buoyant and light-catching rather than geological — strange and quietly spectacular.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, cropped at the waist, cool glowing masses float in near-black space with warm figure contrast
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 nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, cropped at the waist, painted with precise crystalline geometry in cool white and warm flesh tones
Large irregular pale grey-white forms suggest rough-hewn rock faces receding behind the figure. Cool blue ground visible between the forms. Figure painted in warm flesh tones standing clearly against the pale rocky ground. The figure commands the space with quiet authority.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, cropped at the waist, painterly rocky backdrop in cool blues and pale greys contrasting warm figurative tones
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, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, smiling, cropped at the waist, strong contour lines and decisive strokes in crimson on minimal white ground