Passion is a large-format female portrait in profile, built entirely with palette knife and spatula on acrylic on dibond (an aluminium composite panel). The figure's head is tilted back, eyes closed, throat exposed, a gesture that sits between vulnerability and self-possession, surrender and strength. Her skin is worked in thick passages of gold, ochre and amber against a ground of deep crimson and burgundy, and the knife marks are left raised and visible across the whole surface.

The title does not explain the painting so much as charge it. The red ground presses forward, the exposed throat opens upward, and the closed eyes refuse the viewer entirely. It is a portrait of someone wholly inside their own experience, indifferent to being looked at. That quality of self-contained intensity is what Muse returns to repeatedly in her practice. "When I paint a beautiful woman, I want the viewer to see that we are all full of amazing layers," she has said. "It adds dimension and meaning to every face."

Passion 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.