Dissolves the source into pointillist scatter on a pale ground. Warm earth tones of cream rust and burgundy. The figure is readable but barely — features survive as suggestion rather than form.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, tight cropping, dissolved into earth-toned stippling, figure emerging through suggestive dot clusters
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, tight cropping, high-contrast charcoal style with expressive storm-like mark-making
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 square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, tight cropping, eerie repeated figures emerge from shadowy grey backgrounds with expressive gestural marks
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, 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 nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, 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 nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, tight cropping, scattered colour patches dissolving figure into ground in cool pink and blue
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 nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, tight cropping, bold spiral fragments of warm peach and mauve dissolve dynamically around a steady figure
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 nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, 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 nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, tight cropping, dramatic jagged mountain forms in cool gestural strokes framing a warmly painted subject
Deep saturated navy ground with large warm cream rounded forms glowing loosely behind the figure. Figure painted naturalistically in warm flesh tones. The contrast between the intense blue surround and luminous pale masses gives the image a nocturnal intimacy. Painterly and atmospheric.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, tight cropping, luminous pale masses emerge from intense blue in a nocturnal, painterly atmosphere
Pale watercolour-like ground with soft grey-blue shadow marks and rose-pink accents catching at knees hands and floor. Dark forms loom in the upper corners. The surface has a first-pull silkscreen quality — colour present but not yet fully arrived. Delicate and slightly unresolved.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, tight cropping, silkscreen-like, colour barely arrived, delicate and unresolved
Large irregular fragments in warm yellow golden ochre cobalt blue and teal scattered across a pale near-white ground. Figure built from the same vivid fragments with generous white space throughout. Bright celebratory and light-filled.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, tight cropping, built from scattered shards of warm yellow, teal, and blue with airy white space