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A woman's head and shoulders break the surface of a dark blue sea, face tipped back to the sky, painted in thick impasto.Only her shoulders, neck and upturned face are above the water. Her eyes are closed, her wet hair clings dark to her...

A tiny silhouette stands on a path of white star-dust leading straight into the swirling ring of a black hole.Everything is black and white. At the centre, a perfect black circle sits inside a vortex of fine white streaks that spiral outward like light...

A hooded figure with a polished silver mask sits holding an open book, one hand raised in blessing against the dark.The figure is seated and robed from head to foot in heavy fabric that shines like liquid metal, silver-grey folds catching light along every...

A manicured hand dripping with rings and bracelets holds a thick stack of banknotes beside the words Money Energy.On a deep burgundy ground, a hand reaches in from the right holding a tall fanned wad of paper money. The nails are long and nude...

A tiger roars in fierce red and orange brushwork, a heavy sword and chain crossing in front of its open jaws.The tiger's head fills the upper frame, mouth wide open, fangs bared, eyes narrowed. It is painted in quick aggressive strokes of scarlet, orange...

White clouds curve into a crescent and a white star rises beside it above a mountain ridge washed entirely in red.The flag is formed from the landscape itself. A long bank of soft white cloud bends into a perfect crescent against a pale blue...

An ornate phoenix spreads its wings before a glowing amber moon, its long tail feathers curling into swirling clouds.The bird is drawn with the detail of a fine engraving: layered wing feathers in copper, bronze and deep red, a slender crested head turned upward,...

A polished chrome crescent and star float in relief above a deep glossy red ground.The composition is as simple as the flag itself. A crescent and a five-pointed star, both rendered as mirror-polished three-dimensional chrome, sit slightly left of centre on a smooth red...

A masked warrior in fur and chain armour grips a battle axe, the red crescent-and-star flag draped over his shoulder.He stands in darkness, face hidden behind a metal mask under a fur-trimmed helmet. His armour is dark scale and chain, heavy leather straps across...

A close crop on a samurai's gloved hand resting on the wrapped hilt of a katana, set against ornate red and gold armour.There is no face in this picture, only detail. A diamond-wrapped katana hilt runs down the frame into an engraved gold guard,...

A pale silver koi and a dark koi circle each other in black water, their fins trailing into flame.Two koi swim in a tight curve that echoes the yin yang symbol. One is pearl white with silver scales and translucent fins, the other almost...

A warrior in an engraved silver helmet with a tall crimson crest, red cloak swept over his armour, emerges from the dark.The figure fills the frame from the helmet down to the shoulders and chest. The Corinthian helmet is richly engraved with scrolls and...

Seen from behind, a warrior's crested helmet and a line of bone-white vertebrae run down the centre of a dark silhouette.The figure is viewed from directly behind, shoulders squared, all in deep brown and black. The only light falls down the centre line: a...

A helmeted Spartan warrior crouches behind a cracked round shield, spears crossing him, framed by a red Greek key circle.The warrior is drawn in detailed silver and charcoal: a crested Corinthian helmet hiding the face, a ram-horn shoulder guard, sculpted breastplate and a heavy...

A thick sculpted black web studded with thorns radiates from a spider at its centre over a blazing red ground.The web fills the whole frame, but it is not delicate. Every strand is thick, glossy and three-dimensional, like forged iron, and sharp thorns grow...

A white eagle spreads its wings at the top of the frame while its body shatters downward into streaks of red and crimson.Only the head and chest of the eagle are drawn solidly: white feathers, a sharp beak, a small red eye looking straight...

Weathered hands pressed together in prayer, wrapped in beads and rings, rise in front of a glowing red circular diagram.Two old, heavily lined hands are pressed palm to palm at the centre of the frame, drawn in dense engraving-style hatching in black and grey....

A dark winged figure hangs suspended inside a thin golden halo, a single fine thread of light falling to the ground below.Against pure black, a muscular winged figure floats with head bowed, wrapped only in a trailing cloth. Great ragged wings open to either...

A robed warrior with a long sword and a spiked halo dissolves into white starfield dust on a black ground.The figure stands tall at the right of the frame, one arm resting on a long straight sword planted beside him. His form is drawn...

An ornate sword stands point-down in the grass, its blade burning emerald green beneath a storm of green light.The sword is driven into a grassy rise, hilt tilted slightly, and its blade glows from within in bright emerald with runes carved along its length....

Seen from below in a dark forest, a single tree's crown blazes yellow-green while rays of light fall around its trunk.The camera looks straight up the trunk of one tree standing in darkness. Moss clings to the bark, and the trunk rises into a...

Broad overlapping petals in graphite and silver, each one finely veined and rimmed with a soft pale edge.The frame is filled edge to edge with large rounded petals, layered like the heart of a bloom seen from very close. Everything is grey: charcoal in...

Layers of sage leaf shapes and cut timber rings stack diagonally in olive, moss, sand and walnut brown.Long leaf shapes run diagonally across the frame, each one a slightly different green: pale sage, olive, moss, deep forest. Tucked between them are cut slices of...

Looking up from the water's surface through a forest of giant lotus leaves, sunlight glowing green through every one.The viewpoint is tiny, down among the stems. Tall slender stalks rise in every direction, and above them the lotus leaves spread out like umbrellas, overlapping...

Thousands of fine white lines fold into rolling waves over deep indigo, broken by flashes of electric blue.The whole surface is made of line. Hundreds of thin white contours run side by side and bend together, folding into ridges and troughs that read like...

A classical stone archway swallowed by violet coral-like growth opens onto a burning orange sunset.A carved classical gateway stands at the end of a short path, but it is barely visible under what has grown over it: dense clustered forms in violet and periwinkle,...

A natural rock arch burns from within, molten orange spilling through violet stone pitted with glowing red cells, under a twilight sky.The arch rises from both sides of the frame and almost closes at the top, leaving a dark gap of sky at its...

Rounded squares outlined in neon yellow, pink and cyan overlap across grainy fields of teal, orange and magenta.Six or seven rounded squares are stacked and overlapped across the frame, each one drawn with a thick outline in a different colour: acid yellow, hot pink,...

Soft-edged rounded panels in violet, indigo and copper overlap like suede swatches, each traced with a fine gold line.The shapes are simple, close to lozenges and rounded rectangles, but they are stacked at different depths so the composition reads almost as relief. Each panel...

A leopard, a zebra, a rabbit and a giraffe stand shoulder to shoulder in full colour-block outfits, drawn in coloured pencil on warm beige.Four figures pose like a lookbook shot. The leopard wears a long pink coat over green, with a matching mini bag...