Pale cool ground with ghostly figurative forms emerging from the background. Soft and ethereal. The figure shares the space with phantom presences.
Playful nude walking through town, soft ethereal style with phantom presences emerging from pale, diffused grounds
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.
Playful nude walking through town, soft tactile stonework with embedded, sculpted depth
Cool grey-brown with tall dark arched panels flanking the figure. The panels carry circular rivet-like forms giving the background a strong industrial character. Stark and architectural with a mechanical edge.
Playful nude walking through town, architectural metalwork backdrop, dark arched forms with circular rivets, mechanical severity
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.
Playful nude walking through town, bold figure repeated in an ordered grid of warm and cool tones, slightly surreal
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.
Playful nude walking through town, 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.
Playful nude walking through town, painted against pearlescent draped fabric in blues and silver with luminous warmth
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.
Playful nude walking through town, rendered in dreamy blue and mauve with crystalline floral forms and glowing warmth
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.
Playful nude walking through town, dramatic jagged mountain forms in cool gestural strokes framing a warmly painted subject
Warm brown-ochre surround with elaborate white marble sculptural forms filling the background — baroque fountain or ornate palace relief with faces and figures visible in the carved masses. Figure stands in warm flesh tones against the opulent white marble. Grand and slightly overwhelming.
Playful nude walking through town, painted with opulent carved marble figures and warm flesh tones in baroque grandeur
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.
Playful nude walking through town, soft cloudlike ground with charcoal vine tracery and cool blue-grey base
Figure rendered in flat orange-red against a pale grey-cream background of fine-line panelled detail suggesting newsprint or comic strip. Large dark orange-red circular forms sweep in from the sides. Graphic and immediate with a pop art edge.
Playful nude walking through town, rendered in vivid flat color with bold graphic pop art boldness
Pale near-white ground with loose organic forms in cool blue-grey and warm taupe floating around the figure like torn fragments drifting in open space. Figure painted in warm golden flesh tones with loose painterly marks. Airy and open with generous white space throughout.
Playful nude walking through town, painted in loose gestural marks with golden flesh tones and floating torn-paper shapes