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 partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body canted, street clothes, arms up, subtle jewelry, astonished, cropped at the waist, high-contrast charcoal style with expressive storm-like mark-making
Warm sepia and grey-brown tones over a heavily layered textured surface. The background generates dark flanking forms that read like weathered or torn paper. The figure feels retrieved from an aged document rather than a contemporary image.
Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body canted, street clothes, arms up, subtle jewelry, astonished, cropped at the waist, aged document aesthetic with dark flanking forms and weathered paper surfaces
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 partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body canted, street clothes, arms up, subtle jewelry, astonished, cropped at the waist, precise faceted background in cool quartz-like fragments framing warm flesh tones
Cool blue-purple ground with fragmented cream and gold shapes behind a confident figure. Background generates a broken tile or stained glass quality. Bold and slightly psychedelic in register. Figure holds coherence against the fractured surround.
Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body canted, street clothes, arms up, subtle jewelry, astonished, cropped at the waist, bold psychedelic mosaic of cool purples and broken cream-gold fragments
Pale ivory and cream ground with loose scrolling organic forms in terracotta and rust. Background generates rounded decorative shapes — ornamental rather than architectural. Figure is warm and confident against the near-white surround. Distinctive and quietly decorative.
Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body canted, street clothes, arms up, subtle jewelry, astonished, cropped at the waist, soft cream background with rounded decorative shapes in earthy rust tones, ornamental and warm
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 partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body canted, street clothes, arms up, subtle jewelry, astonished, cropped at the waist, painted with soft rounded cloud shapes in cool blue and white, warm figure against airy ground
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 partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body canted, street clothes, arms up, subtle jewelry, astonished, cropped at the waist, swirling charcoal and purple forms with unravelling, unstable energy
Cool cerulean blue and cream in large flat geometric planes. Figure is warm against the cool blue geometry — a clean warm-cool contrast. Elegant and graphic rather than sensuous. Background generates smooth rounded geometric forms in deep and pale blue.
Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body canted, street clothes, arms up, subtle jewelry, astonished, cropped at the waist, bold flat geometry in deep and pale blue, warm figure against cool graphic 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 partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body canted, street clothes, arms up, subtle jewelry, astonished, cropped at the waist, dramatic jagged mountain forms in cool gestural strokes framing a warmly painted subject
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 partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body canted, street clothes, arms up, subtle jewelry, astonished, cropped at the waist, fragmented through crystalline geometric forms in earthy tones, structural and monumental
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 partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body canted, street clothes, arms up, subtle jewelry, astonished, cropped at the waist, soft cloudlike ground with charcoal vine tracery and cool blue-grey base
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 a partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body canted, street clothes, arms up, subtle jewelry, astonished, cropped at the waist, painted in loose gestural marks with golden flesh tones and floating torn-paper shapes