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 a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, tight cropping, stark monochrome with controlled shadow and geometric structure
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 a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, tight cropping, etching-style crosshatch traces every contour with obsessive, engraving-like intensity
Pure monochrome grey with large geometric faceted planes filling the background. The figure is folded into the same angular surface rather than modelled in the round. Precise and cool with no colour anywhere in the image.
Portrait of a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, tight cropping, strict angular planes, no colour, figure folded into geometric surfaces
Cool grey with large angular fractured rock forms flanking the figure on both sides. The figure is warmly rendered in flesh tones against the cool jagged surround. Naturalistic and grounded with a raw stone quality.
Portrait of a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, tight cropping, oil-painted realism with jagged stone textures, cool grey palette warmed by natural flesh tones
Warm flesh tones throughout with ghostly repeated figure forms filling the background in the same skin palette. The repeated forms generate odd fleshy appendages around the central figure. Distinctive and slightly unsettling.
Portrait of a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, tight cropping, warm carnate hues, duplicated forms bleeding into strange organic shapes around the subject
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 a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, tight cropping, pale, structural rendering with angular faceted planes and sharp geometric precision
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 a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, tight cropping, sharp print-like treatment with warm figure against intense geometric shadow play
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 a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, tight cropping, confident warm figure against a luminous cream field of suggested ghostly forms
Bright sky blue with large rounded cloud-like forms in white and pale blue surrounding the figure. Figure is warm and grounded against the airy cool surround. Light and open — one of the most genuinely sky-like backgrounds in this range. Luminous and uplifting.
Portrait of a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, tight cropping, in an open, uplifting style of pale blue and white cloudscapes with luminous rounded forms
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, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, tight cropping, sharp alpine geometry in dark silver and blue, contrasting with richly painted warm tones
Warm geometric fragmentation in cream taupe and deep red-brown with strong architectural planes. The figure is refracted through large faceted forms — crystalline and structural. Background generates towering angular geometry that frames and fragments in equal measure.
Portrait of a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, tight cropping, shattered into towering angular planes of cream and red-brown, cubist and architecturally imposing
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, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, tight cropping, organic botanical style, pale open surround with loose dark linear marks