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, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, traditional bust cropping, high-contrast charcoal style with expressive storm-like mark-making
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, traditional bust cropping, monochrome cubist facets, figure and ground merged in cool grey
Deep cobalt blue and warm golden-yellow geometric planes fill the entire image. The figure is rendered in the same luminous yellow as the background geometry. Bold and immediate with figure and ground sharing a single warm-cool palette.
Portrait of a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, traditional bust cropping, rendered in luminous yellow against deep blue geometric abstraction
Cool blue-violet with large angular faceted planes filling the background. The figure is naturalistically rendered in warm flesh tones against the crystalline surround. Precise and cold with a quartz-like quality to the fractured background.
Portrait of a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, traditional bust cropping, precise faceted background in cool quartz-like fragments framing warm flesh tones
Cool blue-grey with large angular fragmented planes filling the entire image. The figure is integrated into the geometry with warm flesh tones as the only warmth in the composition. Precise and cool with a rounded arch framing the surround.
Portrait of a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, traditional bust cropping, fragmented angular geometry in icy tones, figure dissolved into precise crystalline forms
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, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, traditional bust cropping, layered with calligraphic blue-grey inscriptions beneath warm figurative passages
Hot coral and orange figure burns against fractured cool blue and white ground. Background generates angular broken planes with a ghosted second figure visible behind. Strong warm-cool tension dominates. Sources with bold colour read with hallucinatory intensity.
Portrait of a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, traditional bust cropping, bold warm-cool contrast with angular broken grounds and ghosted figural echoes
Dark purple and charcoal with frantic swirling forms closing in around the figure. Background generates restless spiralling marks with a distinctly unravelling energy. Figure holds but the surround feels genuinely unstable. Moody and slightly alarming.
Portrait of a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, traditional bust cropping, swirling charcoal and purple forms with unravelling, unstable energy
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 a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, traditional bust cropping, rendered in dreamy blue and mauve with crystalline floral forms and glowing warmth
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 a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, traditional bust cropping, with angular burgundy forms and pale sculptural figure work
Pale warm peach ground with massive sweeping black forms rendered in bold gestural marks at cave-painting scale. Figure painted naturalistically and relatively small against the dominant primitive marks. Raw and monumental.
Portrait of a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, traditional bust cropping, bold primitive brushwork in black across a pale peach ground, ancient and elemental
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 a subject, not making eye contact,. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, nude, traditional bust cropping, strong contour lines and decisive strokes in crimson on minimal white ground