Clean pencil sketch with swirling organic forms in the background. Adds draftsmanship without imposing character.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, tight cropping, delicate graphite draftsmanship with swirling organic forms suggesting depth
Pale grey and white with large rounded sculptural forms in the background. Light and airy. The figure feels set against polished stone.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, tight cropping, against rounded stone-like forms in muted grey and white, light and spacious
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 nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, tight cropping, monochrome cubist facets, figure and ground merged in cool grey
Sandy ochre and warm stone tones with the background generating a clear arch and flanking walls that frame the figure in a niche. Painterly and naturalistic with strong architectural presence. The figure feels placed rather than imposed.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, tight cropping, painterly naturalism set within a sculpted niche of sandy warm tones
High-key warm white with large fractured plaster forms filling the background. Cool shadows give the pale surface depth and sculptural weight. Light and substantial with a bleached stone quality.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, tight cropping, high-key warm white forms with bleached stone texture and cool shadow relief
Pale grey with bold dark contour line and flat rose-pink colour fills on shadows and forms. Rocky cloud-like forms fill the background in the same graphic style. Immediate and illustration-like with a strong linear character.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, tight cropping, graphic ink illustration with bold contours and dusty pink form shadows
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 nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, tight cropping, layered with calligraphic blue-grey inscriptions beneath warm figurative passages
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 nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, tight cropping, painted with soft rounded cloud shapes in cool blue and white, warm figure against airy ground
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 angled way from the canvas, body canted, tight cropping, dramatic jagged mountain forms in cool gestural strokes framing a warmly painted subject
Large angular faceted planes in pale blue-grey white and cream cover the entire surface like crumpled paper or crushed ice. Figure painted in warm flesh tones sits gently against the cool crystalline ground. Precise delicate and icy.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, tight cropping, painted with precise crystalline geometry in cool white and warm flesh tones
Pale near-white ground with loose organic forms in cool blue-grey and warm taupe floating around the figure like torn fragments drifting in open space. Figure painted in warm golden flesh tones with loose painterly marks. Airy and open with generous white space throughout.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, tight cropping, painted in loose gestural marks with golden flesh tones and floating torn-paper shapes
Near-white ground with sparse irregular dark forms in grey-brown and warm taupe scattered at the edges and base. Figure painted in warm flesh tones with precise dark line standing clearly in the open white field. Bright airy and uncluttered.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, tight cropping, sparse ink forms in grey-brown and taupe framing a bright airy white field