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 from behind, eye contact, nude, smiling, traditional bust cropping, stark monochrome with controlled shadow and geometric structure
Warm ochre and flesh tones on the figure against a fractured white ground with bold blue and yellow colour blocks. The grid is loose and painterly rather than hard-edged. Energetic and immediate with strong graphic presence.
Portrait from behind, eye contact, nude, smiling, traditional bust cropping, bold colour blocking in ochre and blue on a broken white ground, immediate and gestural
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 from behind, eye contact, nude, smiling, traditional bust cropping, soft brushwork in amber and ochre, figure nestled in a carved stone arch
Cool blue-grey palette with chunky broken brushwork throughout. Background generates irregular boulder or cloud-like forms in blue grey and muted brown. Figure merges softly with the cool ground. Loose and painterly with a raw textural quality.
Portrait from behind, eye contact, nude, smiling, traditional bust cropping, painted with broken brushwork, cool palette, figure dissolving into textured ground
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 from behind, eye contact, nude, smiling, traditional bust cropping, pale, structural rendering with angular faceted planes and sharp geometric precision
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.
Portrait from behind, eye contact, nude, smiling, traditional bust cropping, painterly composition with dark border framing and cool sculptural tones
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 from behind, eye contact, nude, smiling, traditional bust cropping, confident warm figure against a luminous cream field of suggested ghostly forms
Dusty rose taupe and cream in large swooping curved geometric planes — the warm counterpart to Teal and Ice. Figure integrates into the geometry in matching warm tones. Soft and unified with the same elegant geometric confidence. Warm and immediately inviting.
Portrait from behind, eye contact, nude, smiling, traditional bust cropping, in inviting dusty rose and taupe with large graceful geometric forms
Deep navy terracotta-red and pale blue-grey rectangular blocks arranged in a stark architectural composition. Figure painted naturalistically in warm flesh tones against the hard-edged colour field. Modernist and uncompromising — colour as architecture.
Portrait from behind, eye contact, nude, smiling, traditional bust cropping, rendered in uncompromising color-field geometry with naturalistic warm flesh tones
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.
Portrait from behind, eye contact, nude, smiling, traditional bust cropping, pale blue ground, strong contour line and warm flesh tones in classical figure style
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 from behind, eye contact, nude, smiling, traditional bust cropping, fashion illustration style with bold rose-red outlines and authoritative graphic line work
Dense swirling gestural marks in cool grey-white and deep burgundy-red. Dark turbulent forms flank a pale central figure. Heavy impasto quality throughout. Brooding and theatrical.
Portrait from behind, eye contact, nude, smiling, traditional bust cropping, in brooding theatrical impasto, dark swirling forms framing pale light