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.
Gangly nude with curly hair sitting on a window sill, dramatic stone forms in rich ochre and taupe, old master style
Strong graphite on dark ground with bold sweeping strokes filling the background. High contrast and dramatic. The figure stands in a storm of marks!
Gangly nude with curly hair sitting on a window sill, high-contrast charcoal style with expressive storm-like mark-making
Pale cool ground with ghostly figurative forms emerging from the background. Soft and ethereal. The figure shares the space with phantom presences.
Gangly nude with curly hair sitting on a window sill, soft ethereal style with phantom presences emerging from pale, diffused grounds
Loose fragmented colour patches in blue white and pink on a pale ground. Mosaic-like but free. The fragments scatter across figure and background alike.
Gangly nude with curly hair sitting on a window sill, scattered colour patches dissolving figure into ground in cool pink and blue
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.
Gangly nude with curly hair sitting on a window sill, layered with calligraphic blue-grey inscriptions beneath warm figurative passages
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.
Gangly nude with curly hair sitting on a window sill, bold figure repeated in an ordered grid of warm and cool tones, slightly surreal
Warm cream and ivory ground with faint ghosted figure forms visible in the background texture. Painterly and delicate — the spectral presences are suggested rather than stated. Figure is confident and warm against the pale haunted surround. Flattering and quietly distinctive.
Gangly nude with curly hair sitting on a window sill, painterly and delicate, with spectral presences softly haunting the 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.
Gangly nude with curly hair sitting on a window sill, dramatic jagged mountain forms in cool gestural strokes framing a warmly painted subject
Pale azure ground with large draped forms described in clean dark contour line. Figure rendered in the same decisive line with warm flesh tones. One of the more reliably flattering styles available. The clean line finds and elevates the essential form in almost any source.
Gangly nude with curly hair sitting on a window sill, clean decisive linework on azure ground, draped forms in elegant dark outline
Entire surface broken into dense confident brushstrokes in cool blue-grey and white — figure and ground unified in the same energetic mark-making. The figure is present but woven into the surface rather than sitting on it. Cool silvery and kinetic.
Gangly nude with curly hair sitting on a window sill, in dense, energetic strokes that merge figure and ground in silvery blue
Large rounded geometric planes in mid blue pale blue-grey cream and warm taupe cover the entire surface in a cool confident mosaic. Figure painted in the same cool tones fully integrated into the ground. Structured and architectural with a glazed ceramic quality.
Gangly nude with curly hair sitting on a window sill, bold rounded shapes tile the surface in confident mid-blue, blue-grey, and warm taupe
Flat irregular stone forms in cool grey-white with dark crack lines fill the background like a rendered stone wall. Figure painted in warm flesh tones with precise dark outline standing clearly in front of the flat pale ground. Clean graphic and architectural.
Gangly nude with curly hair sitting on a window sill, rendered with clean outlines and flat pale architectural stonework behind