Pale ground with bold simplified planes and swirling organic forms in the background. The figure becomes sculptural. Clean and immediate.
Portrait of a subject making eye contact with arms behind, lingerie, arms behind, very tight cropping, sculptural figure work with clean bold shapes and fluid organic background forms
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 subject making eye contact with arms behind, lingerie, arms behind, very tight cropping, soft ethereal style with phantom presences emerging from pale, diffused grounds
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 a subject making eye contact with arms behind, lingerie, arms behind, very tight cropping, soft tactile stonework with embedded, sculpted depth
Loose fragmented colour patches in blue white and pink on a pale ground. Mosaic-like but free. The fragments scatter across figure and background alike.
Portrait of a subject making eye contact with arms behind, lingerie, arms behind, very tight cropping, scattered colour patches dissolving figure into ground in cool pink and blue
Cool grey with large weathered plaster forms and dark patches filling the background. The figure is warmly rendered against a worn derelict surround. Painterly and atmospheric with a genuine urban quality.
Portrait of a subject making eye contact with arms behind, lingerie, arms behind, very tight cropping, rendered in muted urban greys with worn surfaces and atmospheric depth
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 subject making eye contact with arms behind, lingerie, arms behind, very 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 subject making eye contact with arms behind, lingerie, arms behind, very tight cropping, bold figure repeated in an ordered grid of warm and cool tones, slightly surreal
Warm peach gold and dusty mauve fragments spiral behind a coherent figure. Background generates strong rotational energy — almost kaleidoscopic. Figure holds while the surroundings dissolve into motion. Energetic and flattering to warm sources.
Portrait of a subject making eye contact with arms behind, lingerie, arms behind, very tight cropping, bold spiral fragments of warm peach and mauve dissolve dynamically around a steady figure
Warm cream and ivory ground with faint ghosted figure forms visible in the background texture. Painterly and delicate — the spectral presences are suggested rather than stated. Figure is confident and warm against the pale haunted surround. Flattering and quietly distinctive.
Portrait of a subject making eye contact with arms behind, lingerie, arms behind, very tight cropping, painterly and delicate, with spectral presences softly haunting the pale ground
Cool blue and mauve with large rounded petal-like forms filling the background — abstract roses with a crystalline flash. Figure is warm and painterly against the cool floral surround. Soft and romantic but with a sparkling edge. Distinctive and immediately appealing.
Portrait of a subject making eye contact with arms behind, lingerie, arms behind, very tight cropping, rendered in dreamy blue and mauve with crystalline floral forms and glowing warmth
Cool silver and blue with dramatic angular mountain-like forms filling the background — jagged peaks or shattered rock faces in dark gestural marks. Figure is warm and painterly against the powerful cool surround. Alpine and commanding. One of the more dramatically structured backgrounds in this range.
Portrait of a subject making eye contact with arms behind, lingerie, arms behind, very tight cropping, dramatic jagged mountain forms in cool gestural strokes framing a warmly painted subject
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 subject making eye contact with arms behind, lingerie, arms behind, very tight cropping, painted with precise crystalline geometry in cool white and warm flesh tones