Philip Wolfhagen is renowned for his landscape paintings. Still Life Triptych No. 1 (2000) is an excellent example of the ways Wolfhagen creates atmosphere through his thick application of paint. Here, the landscape is abstracted, as though the artist is looking through a camera lens, and has zoomed in to such an extent that the trees and forest almost dissolve into their colour and form.
Wolfhagen often breaks up his landscape scenes by painting them in two or three parts, separated by small gaps. This enhances the feeling of looking through trees at something in the distance beyond, whilst also playing with a sense of passing time.