Warm brown and taupe tones with dramatic rocky stone forms flanking the figure. Painterly and classical in feel. The figure and background feel genuinely integrated.
Figure leaning back, high heels, arms playing a vital role, dramatic stone forms in rich ochre and taupe, old master style
Cool blue and lavender with rounded stone forms in the background. Softer and more organic than it first appears. The palette runs from ice blue to soft purple.
Figure leaning back, high heels, arms playing a vital role, soft organic shapes in an ice-blue to purple palette
Cool blue geometric planes like shattered ice filling the background. The figure is refracted rather than rendered. Cold and crystalline.
Figure leaning back, high heels, arms playing a vital role, shattered ice facets refracting form into cold angular fragments
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 leaning back, high heels, arms playing a vital role, rendered in raw textural strokes with muted blue-grey and brown tones
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 leaning back, high heels, arms playing a vital role, dramatic jagged mountain forms in cool gestural strokes framing a warmly painted subject
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 leaning back, high heels, arms playing a vital role, warm figure set against ancient standing stones in naturalistic style
Warm dusty rose taupe and soft blue with rounded organic forms filling the background — oyster shells or river pebbles in muted warm tones. Figure integrates into the tactile organic surface. Warm and primordial in character. More fluid and organic than Roman Mosaic.
Figure leaning back, high heels, arms playing a vital role, composed of rounded organic shapes in dusty rose and oyster tones, figure merging with the surface
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 leaning back, high heels, arms playing a vital role, bold baroque drama with swirling cream flesh tones against deep blue
Cool blue-grey and warm ochre-gold impasto with large diagonal brushstrokes creating a herringbone pattern across the entire surface. Figure and background unified in the same energetic mark-making. Flattering and enveloping — this style wraps its subject in warmth and movement.
Figure leaning back, high heels, arms playing a vital role, bold diagonal brushwork in cool blue and warm gold unifies figure and ground in rich texture
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.
Figure leaning back, high heels, arms playing a vital role, painted in hot fauvist tones where figure dissolves into blazing streaked color fields
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 leaning back, high heels, arms playing a vital role, painted with precise crystalline geometry in cool white and warm flesh tones
Near-white ground with sparse irregular dark forms in grey-brown and warm taupe scattered at the edges and base. Figure painted in warm flesh tones with precise dark line standing clearly in the open white field. Bright airy and uncluttered.
Figure leaning back, high heels, arms playing a vital role, sparse ink forms in grey-brown and taupe framing a bright airy white field