Dark grey with cave-like grotto forms in the background. Hints of pink and mauve bleed through the stone texture. Cooler and moodier than Cool Slate.
Smiling nude sitting on the floor on a thick rug, rendered in shadowy grotto tones with bleeding mauve and pink through dark stone
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.
Smiling nude sitting on the floor on a thick rug, painted in soft impressionist strokes of blush, sage, and sky
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.
Smiling nude sitting on the floor on a thick rug, rendered in cool grey tones with architectural marble framing the composition
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.
Smiling nude sitting on the floor on a thick rug, rendered in warm flesh tones and pale blue with a pop-art grid of repeated figures
Cool blue and mauve with large rounded petal-like forms filling the background — abstract roses with a crystalline flash. Figure is warm and painterly against the cool floral surround. Soft and romantic but with a sparkling edge. Distinctive and immediately appealing.
Smiling nude sitting on the floor on a thick rug, in a soft romantic style with cool blue-mauve florals and warm painterly brushwork
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.
Smiling nude sitting on the floor on a thick rug, rendered in bold angular marks with icy silver-blue peaks and warm painterly figure
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.
Smiling nude sitting on the floor on a thick rug, rendered in thick impasto with plum-mauve and cool blue, brushwork unifying figure and ground
Deep indigo and navy forms fill the background in large bold brushstrokes with warm brown-ochre accents. Figure stands in pale blue-grey tones against the turbulent dark surround. Rich impasto character with genuine menace — the dark masses press in from all sides.
Smiling nude sitting on the floor on a thick rug, painted in deep indigo and navy impasto with warm ochre accents and pale blue-grey figure
Pale blue and cream angular planes fill the background in large airy blocks — bright and open rather than heavy. Figure painted in warm flesh tones against the luminous cool ground. Light-filled and confident.
Smiling nude sitting on the floor on a thick rug, rendered in pale blue and cream geometric planes with warm flesh tones
Entire surface broken into dense confident brushstrokes in cool blue-grey and white — figure and ground unified in the same energetic mark-making. The figure is present but woven into the surface rather than sitting on it. Cool silvery and kinetic.
Smiling nude sitting on the floor on a thick rug, rendered in bold, unified brushwork of cool blue-grey and white
Saturated yellow ground with vertical streaks and drips of red orange and blue running through the composition like paint in motion. Figure painted in warm flesh and orange-red tones fully absorbed into the blazing ground. Hot gestural and overwhelming.
Smiling nude sitting on the floor on a thick rug, rendered in explosive gestural brushwork with saturated drips bleeding through molten ground
Pale blue-white ground with large fluid dark forms sweeping in from the sides like heavy shadow or dark marble veining. Figure painted in warm flesh tones with cool blue accents standing clearly in the pale centre. Dramatic and fluid with a marbled quality.
Smiling nude sitting on the floor on a thick rug, rendered in swirling dark marble veining against a pale luminous ground