Philip's artistic interests lay in the representations of landscapes, places or seasons. His choice of colours and type of brushstroke depend on the atmosphere he wants to create or a feeling that he would like to pass, therefore the actual likeness is not that important in his work. Philip's work is semi-abstract - it gives a viewer a clue of what they look at but does not reveal the whole reality of it. It could be said that it is an attempt to show the tangible in an intangible way.