Strong graphite on dark ground with bold sweeping strokes filling the background. High contrast and dramatic. The figure stands in a storm of marks!
Kneeling, downcast eyes, kneeling, nude, tight cropping, powerful dark-ground graphite technique with bold gestural strokes
Pale ground with bold simplified planes and swirling organic forms in the background. The figure becomes sculptural. Clean and immediate.
Kneeling, downcast eyes, kneeling, nude, tight cropping, immediate and graphic, pale ground, sweeping organic forms, simplified planes
Soft impressionist brushwork in pale pinks greens and blues with floral forms in the background. Delicate and luminous. The figure feels alive with light and colour.
Kneeling, downcast eyes, kneeling, nude, tight cropping, loose impressionist technique, glowing with pinks, greens, and blues
Warm golden-ochre with tall dark ornate column forms flanking the figure. The figure is rendered in luminous warm tones against the architectural surround. Rich and structured with a classical grandeur.
Kneeling, downcast eyes, kneeling, nude, tight cropping, structured classical composition with gilded warmth and monumental columns
Dark blue border frames a cool interior of rounded boulder forms in pale blue and stone. Figure is warm and painterly against the cool surround. The vignette framing gives a distinctive painting-within-a-painting quality. Cool and composed with real painterly substance.
Kneeling, downcast eyes, kneeling, nude, tight cropping, painterly composition with dark border framing and cool sculptural tones
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.
Kneeling, downcast eyes, kneeling, nude, tight cropping, in an open, uplifting style of pale blue and white cloudscapes with luminous rounded forms
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.
Kneeling, downcast eyes, kneeling, nude, tight cropping, moody dark palette with restless spiralling marks closing in around the subject
Pale cream and warm rose with a distinctive stippled newsprint-like texture throughout. Figure has the quality of a silk screen that didn't fully take — present but not quite arrived. Background generates soft fragmented forms in the same light palette. Light and distinctive — unlike most painterly styles in this range.
Kneeling, downcast eyes, kneeling, nude, tight cropping, soft stippled halftone feel in blush and cream, delicate and print-like
Warm brown-ochre surround with elaborate white marble sculptural forms filling the background — baroque fountain or ornate palace relief with faces and figures visible in the carved masses. Figure stands in warm flesh tones against the opulent white marble. Grand and slightly overwhelming.
Kneeling, downcast eyes, kneeling, nude, tight cropping, depicted amid ornate sculptural baroque reliefs in rich ochre and warm white marble
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.
Kneeling, downcast eyes, kneeling, nude, tight cropping, organic botanical style, pale open surround with loose dark linear marks
Pale azure ground with large draped forms described in clean dark contour line. Figure rendered in the same decisive line with warm flesh tones. One of the more reliably flattering styles available. The clean line finds and elevates the essential form in almost any source.
Kneeling, downcast eyes, kneeling, nude, tight cropping, pale blue ground, strong contour line and warm flesh tones in classical figure style
Large irregular dots in deep navy and black arranged in a diagonal diamond lattice across a pale cream ground. Figure reads through the bold dot pattern partially absorbed into the graphic surface. Cool and textile-like with the authority of a strong repeat pattern.
Kneeling, downcast eyes, kneeling, nude, tight cropping, with oversized irregular dots in diagonal diamond repeat on cream ground