Strong graphite on dark ground with bold sweeping strokes filling the background. High contrast and dramatic. The figure stands in a storm of marks!
Figure caught in a mirror, downcast eyes, nude, risqué, powerful dark-ground graphite technique with bold gestural strokes
Pure monochrome grey with large geometric faceted planes filling the background. The figure is folded into the same angular surface rather than modelled in the round. Precise and cool with no colour anywhere in the image.
Figure caught in a mirror, downcast eyes, nude, risqué, strict angular planes, no colour, figure folded into geometric surfaces
Pale grey with bold dark contour line and flat rose-pink colour fills on shadows and forms. Rocky cloud-like forms fill the background in the same graphic style. Immediate and illustration-like with a strong linear character.
Figure caught in a mirror, downcast eyes, nude, risqué, strong linear style with flat pink fills and rocky cloud forms in pale grey
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.
Figure caught in a mirror, downcast eyes, nude, risqué, warm palette pop-art style with tiled figure reflections filling the background
Warm peach gold and dusty mauve fragments spiral behind a coherent figure. Background generates strong rotational energy — almost kaleidoscopic. Figure holds while the surroundings dissolve into motion. Energetic and flattering to warm sources.
Figure caught in a mirror, downcast eyes, nude, risqué, vibrant warm-toned abstraction with spinning dusty mauve and golden peach background motion
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.
Figure caught in a mirror, downcast eyes, nude, risqué, painted with broken brushwork, cool palette, figure dissolving into textured 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 caught in a mirror, downcast eyes, nude, risqué, sharp alpine geometry in dark silver and blue, contrasting with richly painted warm tones
Cool pale blue and cream with tall rounded vertical forms filling the background — standing stones or monoliths in pale stone tones. Figure is warm against the cool ancient surround. Clean and naturalistic with a megalithic presence. Distinctive vertical character sets it apart from other stone styles.
Figure caught in a mirror, downcast eyes, nude, risqué, clean megalithic composition of rounded vertical stone forms in pale hues
Dark near-black ground with large pale rounded forms glowing with cool violet-grey light and teal edge highlights. Figure stands warm against the luminous floating masses. The orbs read as buoyant and light-catching rather than geological — strange and quietly spectacular.
Figure caught in a mirror, downcast eyes, nude, risqué, pale rounded forms catch cool light against dark ground, teal edges shimmering
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 caught in a mirror, downcast eyes, nude, risqué, organic botanical style, pale open surround with loose dark linear marks
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.
Figure caught in a mirror, downcast eyes, nude, risqué, luminous cubist planes in blue, cream, and confident warm tones
Large angular planes in white pale grey dusty rose and muted burgundy sweep diagonally across a predominantly white ground like torn or peeling layers of paper. Figure integrated into the fractured pale surface. Light open and architecturally spare.
Figure caught in a mirror, downcast eyes, nude, risqué, architecturally spare, torn-paper forms in pale, muted tones