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.
Figure sitting on the ground, modest pose, downcast eyes, nude, arms raised, rendered in shadowy grotto tones with bleeding mauve and pink through dark stone
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.
Figure sitting on the ground, modest pose, downcast eyes, nude, arms raised, rendered in warm sandy stone tones with rounded, cobbled texture
Cool blue geometric planes like shattered ice filling the background. The figure is refracted rather than rendered. Cold and crystalline.
Figure sitting on the ground, modest pose, downcast eyes, nude, arms raised, rendered in fractured geometric planes of cool blue, crystalline and sharp
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.
Figure sitting on the ground, modest pose, downcast eyes, nude, arms raised, rendered in warm ochre and flesh tones against a fractured white ground with bold colour blocks
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.
Figure sitting on the ground, modest pose, downcast eyes, nude, arms raised, rendered in warm flesh tones against cool architectural grey, painterly and monumental
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 on the ground, modest pose, downcast eyes, nude, arms raised, rendered in pale lavender and cool grey with ghostly figures dissolving into mist
Pale ground with a dense blue-grey pattern of text-like or script-like marks filling the background. The figure is rendered in warm flesh tones over the inscribed surface. Distinctive and layered with an archaeological quality.
Figure sitting on the ground, modest pose, downcast eyes, nude, arms raised, rendered in warm flesh tones over a dense field of script-like marks on pale 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.
Figure sitting on the ground, modest pose, downcast eyes, nude, arms raised, rendered in bold angular marks with icy silver-blue peaks and warm painterly figure
Cool teal and blue with swirling rounded organic forms creating a vortex-like background. Dark border frames the composition. Figure is warm against the cool oceanic surround. Dynamic and fluid — the background has genuine rotational energy. Related to Blue Organ but more oceanic than biological.
Figure sitting on the ground, modest pose, downcast eyes, nude, arms raised, rendered in swirling teal and blue with fluid vortex energy and a dark framing border
Deep saturated navy ground with large warm cream rounded forms glowing loosely behind the figure. Figure painted naturalistically in warm flesh tones. The contrast between the intense blue surround and luminous pale masses gives the image a nocturnal intimacy. Painterly and atmospheric.
Figure sitting on the ground, modest pose, downcast eyes, nude, arms raised, painted in warm flesh tones against a deep saturated navy ground with glowing cream forms
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 on the ground, modest pose, downcast eyes, nude, arms raised, rendered in luminous whites with dark tendril marks and warm flesh tones
Large angular faceted planes in pale blue-grey white and cream cover the entire surface like crumpled paper or crushed ice. Figure painted in warm flesh tones sits gently against the cool crystalline ground. Precise delicate and icy.
Figure sitting on the ground, modest pose, downcast eyes, nude, arms raised, rendered in angular faceted planes of pale blue-grey and cream like crumpled ice