Dignity is a large-format female portrait in profile, acrylic on dibond (an aluminium composite panel), 108 x 108 cm including frame. Three colours carry the entire painting: the red of a headwrap, the deep browns and plums of the skin, and a saturated yellow ground laid in broad, distinct slabs that give the background its own solidity and weight. It is the most pared-back composition in Muse's recent work, and the most commanding.

The figure's chin is lifted, the neck long, the posture entirely unperformed. Muse models the face in close-toned planes of aubergine, mahogany and mauve, each placed with the knife and left. There is no blending, no softening. The restraint is structural: a painting that achieves its force through what it declines to do. The title does not describe the figure so much as confirm what is already there.

Dignity is an original, one-of-one large-format palette knife painting, acrylic on dibond, 108 x 108 cm including frame. This work has been sold. To enquire about similar available works by Zara Muse, contact Eclectic Gallery, Fitzrovia, London.

Dignity by Zara Muse, large-format palette knife portrait, acrylic on dibond, 108x108cm. Sold. Enquire about similar works at Eclectic Gallery, Fitzrovia.