Bold colour blocks in yellow blue grey and red fill the entire image. The figure reads through the grid rather than in front of it. Energetic and immediate.
Figure leaning back, eye contact, street clothes, flat planes of yellow, blue, grey, and red fracture and define the form
Warm painterly impasto with tall organic forms flanking the figure in muted golds blues and pinks. Loose and gestural. The figure stands in a gallery of painted shapes.
Figure leaning back, eye contact, street clothes, loose gestural brushwork with organic forms in dusty warm tones
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 leaning back, eye contact, street clothes, loose painterly grid of blue and yellow with energetic graphic presence
Warm sepia and grey-brown tones over a heavily layered textured surface. The background generates dark flanking forms that read like weathered or torn paper. The figure feels retrieved from an aged document rather than a contemporary image.
Figure leaning back, eye contact, street clothes, aged document aesthetic with dark flanking forms and weathered paper surfaces
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.
Figure leaning back, eye contact, street clothes, architectural metalwork backdrop, dark arched forms with circular rivets, mechanical severity
Cool grey with large angular fractured rock forms flanking the figure on both sides. The figure is warmly rendered in flesh tones against the cool jagged surround. Naturalistic and grounded with a raw stone quality.
Figure leaning back, eye contact, street clothes, rendered with angular rock forms in cool grey framing warm naturalistic figure painting
Cool blue-grey with large angular fragmented planes filling the entire image. The figure is integrated into the geometry with warm flesh tones as the only warmth in the composition. Precise and cool with a rounded arch framing the surround.
Figure leaning back, eye contact, street clothes, fragmented angular geometry in icy tones, figure dissolved into precise crystalline forms
Cool blue-purple ground with fragmented cream and gold shapes behind a confident figure. Background generates a broken tile or stained glass quality. Bold and slightly psychedelic in register. Figure holds coherence against the fractured surround.
Figure leaning back, eye contact, street clothes, bold psychedelic mosaic of cool purples and broken cream-gold fragments
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, eye contact, street clothes, dramatic jagged mountain forms in cool gestural strokes framing a warmly painted subject
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 leaning back, eye contact, street clothes, soft cloudlike ground with charcoal vine tracery and cool blue-grey base
Cool cream and white ground with strong vertical streaks in deep blue-grey and teal that read like frozen cascades or dripping ice. Figure rendered in the same cool palette with deep shadow and quiet intensity. Large dark organic forms flank the composition like drawn curtains.
Figure leaning back, eye contact, street clothes, painted in an icy teal and white palette with dramatic dripping brushwork
Cool blue-grey and near-black with a blazing white centre that backlights the figure dramatically. Large dark organic forms sweep in from both sides like heavy wings or drawn curtains. Figure sits at the threshold of light and shadow in deep cool tones with only traces of warm flesh breaking through.
Figure leaning back, eye contact, street clothes, dramatic chiaroscuro in near-black and icy white, organic shadows framing a glowing centre