Strong graphite on dark ground with bold sweeping strokes filling the background. High contrast and dramatic. The figure stands in a storm of marks!
Bottomless nude leaning against an antique dresser, high-contrast charcoal style with expressive storm-like mark-making
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.
Bottomless nude leaning against an antique dresser, luminous impressionist style with pale floral tones and delicate brushwork
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.
Bottomless nude leaning against an antique dresser, high-contrast graphic style, deep shadows framing the composition
Warm sandy stone with rounded cobble-like forms filling the background. Soft and tactile. The figure feels set into the surface rather than placed in front of it.
Bottomless nude leaning against an antique dresser, soft tactile stonework with embedded, sculpted depth
Cool blue geometric planes like shattered ice filling the background. The figure is refracted rather than rendered. Cold and crystalline.
Bottomless nude leaning against an antique dresser, shattered ice facets refracting form into cold angular fragments
Warm flesh tones with strong painterly modelling against a cool teal-grey ground. The background generates a bold white cloud-like or glacial mass behind the figure. High contrast and corporeal with a sense of cool open light.
Bottomless nude leaning against an antique dresser, high-contrast figurative painting with glacial white forms emerging from a cool 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.
Bottomless nude leaning against an antique dresser, rendered in raw textural strokes with muted blue-grey and brown tones
Cool blue lavender and silver with a silky vertical flow in the background — draped fabric or cascading water in cool light. Figure is warm against the pearlescent surround. Iridescent and luminous throughout. One of the more delicate and distinctive backgrounds in this range.
Bottomless nude leaning against an antique dresser, painted against pearlescent draped fabric in blues and silver with luminous warmth
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.
Bottomless nude leaning against an antique dresser, painterly and delicate, with spectral presences softly haunting the pale ground
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.
Bottomless nude leaning against an antique dresser, painted with soft rounded cloud shapes in cool blue and white, warm figure against airy ground
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.
Bottomless nude leaning against an antique dresser, dramatic jagged mountain forms in cool gestural strokes framing a warmly painted subject
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.
Bottomless nude leaning against an antique dresser, clean decisive linework on azure ground, draped forms in elegant dark outline