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 a subject making eye contact with arms behind, nude, arms behind, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, dramatic stone forms in rich ochre and taupe, old master style
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 a subject making eye contact with arms behind, nude, arms behind, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, high-contrast charcoal style with expressive storm-like mark-making
Warm painterly impasto with tall organic forms flanking the figure in muted golds blues and pinks. Loose and gestural. The figure stands in a gallery of painted shapes.
Portrait of a subject making eye contact with arms behind, nude, arms behind, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, loose gestural brushwork with organic forms in dusty warm tones
Warm pinks and rose with large painterly forms flanking the figure. Rich and sensuous. The figure feels present and inhabited.
Portrait of a subject making eye contact with arms behind, nude, arms behind, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, warm pink painterly forms, rich and sensuous in feeling
Deep dark ground with large pale cloud-like forms and a vivid teal-cyan glow tracing the figure's edges. Dramatic and immediate with strong contrast between the dark surround and the luminous outline. More intense than similar trace styles.
Portrait of a subject making eye contact with arms behind, nude, arms behind, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, in a high-contrast dark style with vivid teal luminous outlining
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 a subject making eye contact with arms behind, nude, arms behind, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, layered with calligraphic blue-grey inscriptions beneath warm figurative passages
Cool blue-grey palette with chunky broken brushwork throughout. Background generates irregular boulder or cloud-like forms in blue grey and muted brown. Figure merges softly with the cool ground. Loose and painterly with a raw textural quality.
Portrait of a subject making eye contact with arms behind, nude, arms behind, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, rendered in raw textural strokes with muted blue-grey and brown tones
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, nude, arms behind, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, dramatic jagged mountain forms in cool gestural strokes framing a warmly painted subject
Pale cream and white with large rounded forms splashed with deep red blue and gold. Background reads like pale swirling marble with vivid colour scattered across it. Figure is warm and integrated into the rich complex surround. Energetic and distinctive — unlike anything else in this range.
Portrait of a subject making eye contact with arms behind, nude, arms behind, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, pale swirling ground with vivid scattered colour and warm rounded forms
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 a subject making eye contact with arms behind, nude, arms behind, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, soft cloudlike ground with charcoal vine tracery and cool blue-grey base
Pale azure ground with large draped forms described in clean dark contour line. Figure rendered in the same decisive line with warm flesh tones. One of the more reliably flattering styles available. The clean line finds and elevates the essential form in almost any source.
Portrait of a subject making eye contact with arms behind, nude, arms behind, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, clean decisive linework on azure ground, draped forms in elegant dark outline
Entire surface built from fine regular dots in warm peach cream terracotta and cool blue giving the image a needlepoint or petit point textile quality. Cool blue border frames the composition. Figure reads through the dot structure with warmth and intricacy.
Portrait of a subject making eye contact with arms behind, nude, arms behind, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, built from dense regular dots evoking petit point embroidery in warm and cool tones