Sensitivity is a large-format female portrait in profile, acrylic on dibond (an aluminium composite panel), 108 x 108 cm including frame. The figure wears a black headscarf that fills the left half of the canvas, built from heavy, dark slabs of paint flecked with crimson and red. Against it, the face is handled entirely differently: smaller, more careful knife strokes in cream, sand and warm ochre, assembled feature by feature. It is the most quietly painted passage in the work, framed by the most forceful.

The background does not recede. Crimson, magenta and violet surge in from every side in broad, almost floral marks that press close around the figure, holding her rather than simply setting her against a colour. The figure's gaze is lowered, inward, entirely her own. Muse presents sensitivity here not as fragility but as its own form of composure, an interior stillness that the painting's charged exterior only intensifies.

Sensitivity is an original, one-of-one large-format palette knife painting, acrylic on dibond, 108 x 108 cm including frame, available through Eclectic Gallery, Fitzrovia, London. To enquire or arrange a private viewing, contact the gallery.