Cool grey with a prominent marble or stone form behind the figure. Elegant and architectural. The figure is framed rather than consumed by the background.
Nude in an open work shirt, stockings, and garters, cool-toned marble architecture as backdrop, geometric and refined, figure clearly defined
Rich teal and mid-blue swirling forms fill the background and wash across the figure. The palette runs from deep navy to bright turquoise. Immersive and fluid with strong painterly energy throughout.
Nude in an open work shirt, stockings, and garters, deep navy and bright turquoise wash together in sweeping painterly strokes
Bold mixed impasto strokes in grey pink mauve and ochre fill the background with painterly energy. The figure rides a richly worked surface of broken colour. Lively and immediate with a full warm-cool palette.
Nude in an open work shirt, stockings, and garters, thick painterly brushwork in a rich grey, mauve, and ochre palette
Warm grey-brown with tall dark architectural forms flanking the figure on either side. The figure is naturalistically rendered in warm flesh tones against the cool structured surround. Painterly and grounded with a monumental quality.
Nude in an open work shirt, stockings, and garters, painterly realism with warm amber flesh, dark flanking architecture, grounded monumentality
Warm sandy terracotta with a fine grain texture throughout. The background generates large soft white rounded forms that billow behind the figure. Warm and tactile with an unusual contrast between earthy ground and pale sculptural surround.
Nude in an open work shirt, stockings, and garters, fine-grained terracotta palette with rounded ivory shapes emerging from a warm matte surface
Pale white and cool grey with soft organic forms emerging from the background. The figure is warmly rendered against the ghostly painterly surround. Atmospheric and painterly with a dreamy quality to the open space.
Nude in an open work shirt, stockings, and garters, painterly and atmospheric, soft forms dissolving into an open, ghostly white and grey surround
Warm flesh and pale blue with tiled repeated copies of the figure filling the background in an ordered grid. The central figure stands before a wall of its own reflections. Distinctive and slightly disorienting with a pop multiplicity.
Nude in an open work shirt, stockings, and garters, warm palette pop-art style with tiled figure reflections filling the background
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.
Nude in an open work shirt, stockings, and garters, painted with broken brushwork, cool palette, figure dissolving into textured ground
Dark charcoal and deep purple flank large pale glowing rock or ice forms behind the figure. Scattered leaf shapes in the upper corners add a decorative note. Figure is warm against the luminous pale centre. Dramatic contrast between glowing stone and dark surround. Moody and painterly.
Nude in an open work shirt, stockings, and garters, dramatic chiaroscuro in charcoal and purple with scattered leaf motifs
Rich impasto in warm plum-mauve and cool blue with large loose visible brushstrokes unifying figure and background. Background generates rounded organic forms from the same energetic brushwork. The surface is alive throughout — one of the more genuinely painterly styles in the set.
Nude in an open work shirt, stockings, and garters, gestural impasto painting, organic forms emerging from unified brushwork in mauve and blue
Pale watercolour-like ground with soft grey-blue shadow marks and rose-pink accents catching at knees hands and floor. Dark forms loom in the upper corners. The surface has a first-pull silkscreen quality — colour present but not yet fully arrived. Delicate and slightly unresolved.
Nude in an open work shirt, stockings, and garters, muted watercolour ground with dark looming corners and blush accents
Cool blue-grey and warm ochre-gold impasto with large diagonal brushstrokes creating a herringbone pattern across the entire surface. Figure and background unified in the same energetic mark-making. Flattering and enveloping — this style wraps its subject in warmth and movement.
Nude in an open work shirt, stockings, and garters, expressive impasto in blue-grey and ochre-gold, energetic herringbone marks enveloping the subject