Light, space and form are present in every image, as each one needs the others to exist. The challenge of painting the landscape lies in capturing a vast space, multiple forms within that space, and the subtlety of atmospheric light. My new works, by contrast, present a shallow space that confronts the viewer with a singular subject. Natural light and atmosphere are traded for the artificial, controlled setting of the studio. Rather than clearly defining and separating these three pictoral elements, they are obscured in order to create a texture, more similar to abstraction than representation, which may evoke several things simultaneously.