Fragments the source into angular colour planes with a cubist edge. Renders consistently in warm reds. The planes find bone structure on faces and body geometry on figures with equal conviction.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, tight cropping, warm red cubist fragmentation, faceted planes revealing structure
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 square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, tight cropping, loose painterly grid of blue and yellow with energetic graphic presence
Warm sepia and grey-brown tones over a heavily layered textured surface. The background generates dark flanking forms that read like weathered or torn paper. The figure feels retrieved from an aged document rather than a contemporary image.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, tight cropping, aged document aesthetic with dark flanking forms and weathered paper surfaces
Cool grey crosshatch and gestural marks fill the background with organic forms emerging from the surface. The figure is sketched rather than rendered with loose confident line. Immediate and alive with a life-drawing energy.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, tight cropping, rendered in spontaneous life-drawing lines and grey hatching
Cool blue-purple ground with fragmented cream and gold shapes behind a confident figure. Background generates a broken tile or stained glass quality. Bold and slightly psychedelic in register. Figure holds coherence against the fractured surround.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, tight cropping, bold psychedelic mosaic of cool purples and broken cream-gold fragments
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 square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, tight cropping, 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, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, tight cropping, painted against pearlescent draped fabric in blues and silver with luminous warmth
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 square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, tight cropping, bold rounded forms in pale blue and stone with a warm central figure
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, face square to the canvas but body angled away, body canted, tight cropping, fractured angular planes of cool blue and brown dissolve figure into crisp geometry
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