Tranquility 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 faces right, eyes closed, her face lifted into a wide ground of cobalt and turquoise blue, while a cooler, chalky cream holds the left side of the canvas. The composition has a directional quality: the figure is moving towards something open, something light. Her skin is laid in broad strokes of copper, sienna and warm amber, her hair a dense mass of black threaded with ultramarine, and the paint sits thick and sculptural across the entire surface.

The title earns its place not through stillness as absence but through stillness as a form of composure. Eyes closed, chin slightly raised, the figure is entirely present. That quality of inward calm rendered in some of the most energetic mark-making in Muse's recent work is the quiet contradiction at the heart of the painting.

Tranquility 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.