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.
Figure sitting, modest pose, downcast eyes, street clothes, arms playing a vital role, painted in soft impressionist strokes of blush, sage, and sky
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.
Figure sitting, modest pose, downcast eyes, street clothes, arms playing a vital role, rendered in warm sepia and grey-brown tones with heavy layered texture
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.
Figure sitting, modest pose, downcast eyes, street clothes, arms playing a vital role, rendered in warm naturalistic tones against angular blue-violet crystalline planes
Pale lavender and cool grey with tall vertical forms and ghostly figurative shapes emerging from the background. The figure stands in a softly haunted interior. Atmospheric and slightly unsettling with a delicate palette.
Figure sitting, modest pose, downcast eyes, street clothes, arms playing a vital role, rendered in pale lavender and cool grey with ghostly figures dissolving into mist
Warm cream and pale pink with tall flowing organic forms filling the background. A fine woven texture maps figure and ground throughout. Warm and tactile with a gentle flowing quality.
Figure sitting, modest pose, downcast eyes, street clothes, arms playing a vital role, rendered in warm cream and blush tones with tall flowing organic shapes and woven texture
Stark black corners frame radiating crumpled white planes — crushed paper or foil caught in sharp light. Figure is warm against the high contrast surround. Graphic and dramatic with a strong print-like character. Bold silhouettes read with particular intensity in this style.
Figure sitting, modest pose, downcast eyes, street clothes, arms playing a vital role, rendered in high-contrast crumpled paper texture with bold graphic shadows
Near-black ground with slashing crimson and deep red forms flanking the figure. Figure is pale and exposed against the dark threatening surround. Darker and more menacing than Crimson Stage — the black dominates with red as accent. Dramatic and confrontational.
Figure sitting, modest pose, downcast eyes, street clothes, arms playing a vital role, rendered in near-black with slashing crimson accents, dramatic and confrontational
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.
Figure sitting, modest pose, downcast eyes, street clothes, arms playing a vital role, rendered in dark purple and charcoal with frantic swirling marks
Deep cobalt blue background with warm golden-yellow forms bursting outward in bold impasto. Figure painted in warm cream and flesh tones at the centre of the energy. Theatrical and baroque — stormy sky with golden light breaking through. One of the more dramatically coloured styles in the set.
Figure sitting, modest pose, downcast eyes, street clothes, arms playing a vital role, rendered in thick impasto with cobalt depths and explosive golden light
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.
Figure sitting, modest pose, downcast eyes, street clothes, arms playing a vital role, rendered in luminous whites with dark tendril marks and 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.
Figure sitting, modest pose, downcast eyes, street clothes, arms playing a vital role, rendered in bold dark contour line on pale blue ground with warm flesh tones
Cool cream and white ground with strong vertical streaks in deep blue-grey and teal that read like frozen cascades or dripping ice. Figure rendered in the same cool palette with deep shadow and quiet intensity. Large dark organic forms flank the composition like drawn curtains.
Figure sitting, modest pose, downcast eyes, street clothes, arms playing a vital role, rendered in cool creams and blue-grey with vertical streaks like frozen cascades