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, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, subtle jewelry, smiling, cropped at the hip, integrated figure and landscape in warm browns, painterly realism
Pale ground with bold simplified planes and swirling organic forms in the background. The figure becomes sculptural. Clean and immediate.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, subtle jewelry, smiling, cropped at the hip, immediate and graphic, pale ground, sweeping organic forms, simplified planes
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, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, subtle jewelry, smiling, cropped at the hip, cool-toned figurative work where forms dissolve into spectral, atmospheric haze
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, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, subtle jewelry, smiling, cropped at the hip, free tessellated brushwork in blue, white, and pink, figure and field unified
Cool blue geometric planes like shattered ice filling the background. The figure is refracted rather than rendered. Cold and crystalline.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, subtle jewelry, smiling, cropped at the hip, cubist planes of glacial blue splinter the figure into icy geometry
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, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, subtle jewelry, smiling, cropped at the hip, bold colour blocking in ochre and blue on a broken white ground, immediate and gestural
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, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, subtle jewelry, smiling, cropped at the hip, sketched with raw confident strokes and organic crosshatch texture
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, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, subtle jewelry, smiling, cropped at the hip, vibrant warm-toned abstraction with spinning dusty mauve and golden peach background motion
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, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, subtle jewelry, smiling, cropped at the hip, fragmented tile-like surround in deep blue and gold with surreal intensity
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, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, subtle jewelry, smiling, cropped at the hip, in a romantic painterly style with abstract roses, cool crystal tones, and luminous 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, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, subtle jewelry, smiling, cropped at the hip, sharp alpine geometry in dark silver and blue, contrasting with richly painted warm tones
Pale blue and cream angular planes fill the background in large airy blocks — bright and open rather than heavy. Figure painted in warm flesh tones against the luminous cool ground. Light-filled and confident.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body canted, subtle jewelry, smiling, cropped at the hip, luminous cubist planes in blue, cream, and confident warm tones