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, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body square, statement jewlry, smiling, tight cropping, high-contrast charcoal style with expressive storm-like mark-making
Warm ochre and flesh tones on the figure against a fractured white ground with bold blue and yellow colour blocks. The grid is loose and painterly rather than hard-edged. Energetic and immediate with strong graphic presence.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body square, statement jewlry, smiling, tight cropping, loose painterly grid of blue and yellow with energetic graphic presence
Cool grey with large angular fractured rock forms flanking the figure on both sides. The figure is warmly rendered in flesh tones against the cool jagged surround. Naturalistic and grounded with a raw stone quality.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body square, statement jewlry, smiling, tight cropping, rendered with angular rock forms in cool grey framing warm naturalistic figure painting
Pale ground with a dense blue-grey pattern of text-like or script-like marks filling the background. The figure is rendered in warm flesh tones over the inscribed surface. Distinctive and layered with an archaeological quality.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body square, statement jewlry, smiling, tight cropping, layered with calligraphic blue-grey inscriptions beneath warm figurative passages
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, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body square, statement jewlry, smiling, 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 nude subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body square, statement jewlry, smiling, 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, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body square, statement jewlry, smiling, 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, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body square, statement jewlry, smiling, tight cropping, dramatic jagged mountain forms in cool gestural strokes framing a warmly painted subject
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, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body square, statement jewlry, smiling, tight cropping, silkscreen-like, colour barely arrived, delicate and unresolved
Luminous white cloud forms fill the background with dark charcoal tendril or vine-like marks threading through them. Cool blue-grey at the base. Figure painted in warm flesh tones against the pale open surround. Looser and more organic than Pale Damask — botanical rather than decorative.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body square, statement jewlry, smiling, tight cropping, soft cloudlike ground with charcoal vine tracery and cool blue-grey base
Figure rendered in flat orange-red against a pale grey-cream background of fine-line panelled detail suggesting newsprint or comic strip. Large dark orange-red circular forms sweep in from the sides. Graphic and immediate with a pop art edge.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body square, statement jewlry, smiling, tight cropping, rendered in vivid flat color with bold graphic pop art boldness
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, square to the canvas. Arms play a vital role, body square, statement jewlry, smiling, tight cropping, painted with precise crystalline geometry in cool white and warm flesh tones