Clean pencil sketch with swirling organic forms in the background. Adds draftsmanship without imposing character.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, smiling, traditional bust cropping, delicate graphite draftsmanship with swirling organic forms suggesting depth
Warm brown and taupe tones with dramatic rocky stone forms flanking the figure. Painterly and classical in feel. The figure and background feel genuinely integrated.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, smiling, traditional bust cropping, dramatic stone forms in rich ochre and taupe, old master style
High contrast black and white with dark architectural forms flanking the figure. Graphic and controlled. The figure stands in a surround of deep shadow and structure.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, smiling, traditional bust cropping, high-contrast graphic style, deep shadows framing the composition
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 and body square to the canvas, smiling, traditional bust cropping, scattered colour patches dissolving figure into ground in cool pink and blue
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, face and body square to the canvas, smiling, traditional bust cropping, loose painterly grid of blue and yellow with energetic graphic presence
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, face and body square to the canvas, smiling, traditional bust cropping, layered with calligraphic blue-grey inscriptions beneath warm figurative passages
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, face and body square to the canvas, smiling, traditional bust cropping, clean graphic figure against fractured stone-like angular planes in pale grey tones
Stark black corners frame radiating crumpled white planes — crushed paper or foil caught in sharp light. Figure is warm against the high contrast surround. Graphic and dramatic with a strong print-like character. Bold silhouettes read with particular intensity in this style.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, smiling, traditional bust cropping, dramatic foil-crush effect with stark black corners and radiating white planes
Dark blue border frames a cool interior of rounded boulder forms in pale blue and stone. Figure is warm and painterly against the cool surround. The vignette framing gives a distinctive painting-within-a-painting quality. Cool and composed with real painterly substance.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, smiling, traditional bust cropping, bold rounded forms in pale blue and stone with a warm central 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 and body square to the canvas, smiling, traditional bust 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 and body square to the canvas, smiling, traditional bust 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 nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, smiling, traditional bust cropping, painted with precise crystalline geometry in cool white and warm flesh tones