Mid-key values give Philip Wilson Steer its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Philip Wilson Steer keeps warm and cool in parity, a balance that lends the work a perceptual shimmer. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The most saturated colour, #7C3A1C, is reserved to 3.6% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. Spanning 42 units on the value axis, the palette achieves the balance between tonal flatness and fragmentation. In the context of Philip Wilson Steer's full range of palettes, group 6 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.