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, face and body square to the canvas, statement jewlry, tight cropping, powerful dark-ground graphite technique with bold gestural strokes
Dense ink crosshatch on pale ground with swirling figurative forms filling the background. Engraving-like in character. The line maps the figure with forensic intensity.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, statement jewlry, tight cropping, etching-style crosshatch traces every contour with obsessive, engraving-like intensity
Cool grey and white with a peeling plaster or aged wall texture behind the figure. Painterly and tactile. The figure feels grounded in a real physical space.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, statement jewlry, tight cropping, painterly cool palette with worn plaster texture, tactile and atmospheric
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, statement jewlry, tight cropping, free tessellated brushwork in blue, white, and pink, figure and field unified
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, statement jewlry, tight cropping, bold colour blocking in ochre and blue on a broken white ground, immediate and gestural
Deep cobalt blue borders frame a cool interior of angular rock or ice forms in blue and white. Figure is warm against the cold stone surround. Painterly and dramatic rather than photographic. The cobalt frame gives this style a distinctive compositional signature.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, statement jewlry, tight cropping, cool angular rock forms in cobalt and white with a bold painted border
Warm cream and ivory ground with faint ghosted figure forms visible in the background texture. Painterly and delicate — the spectral presences are suggested rather than stated. Figure is confident and warm against the pale haunted surround. Flattering and quietly distinctive.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, statement jewlry, tight cropping, confident warm figure against a luminous cream field of suggested ghostly forms
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, statement jewlry, tight cropping, 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, face and body square to the canvas, statement jewlry, tight cropping, sharp alpine geometry in dark silver and blue, contrasting with richly painted warm tones
Cool teal and blue with swirling rounded organic forms creating a vortex-like background. Dark border frames the composition. Figure is warm against the cool oceanic surround. Dynamic and fluid — the background has genuine rotational energy. Related to Blue Organ but more oceanic than biological.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, statement jewlry, tight cropping, painted with spiraling aquatic energy, rounded fluid shapes, and deep border framing
Deep crimson and burgundy geometric planes sweep through the background in large bold angular forms. Figure rendered in pale white-grey tones against the rich red surround. Dramatic and saturated — the red commands the image. Architectural but warm-blooded.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, statement jewlry, tight cropping, rendered in saturated reds and white-grey against hard-edged architecture
Near-white ground with bold crimson-rose and dark contour lines describing the figure in confident decisive strokes. Minimal background detail keeps the focus entirely on the line. Immediate and graphic with the authority of a strong fashion illustration.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body square to the canvas, statement jewlry, tight cropping, fashion illustration style with bold rose-red outlines and authoritative graphic line work