The paintings in the collection are scenes of Ballycastle.  The town became a motif, allowing me to revisit the same point of view to confront and understand it wholly. My subject was not a scheme for a potential source of new visual information, so my scene never changed and rarely my point of view, and this provided an environment to discover something new.

The shadows, shapes, and the space they occupy make the landscape a source for learning new shapes and forms, which differ significantly from those relating to the still life; a subject I have been painting for many years. Extreme differences between both subjects such as the kind of space and accessibility require a different way of painting, altering my approach.         - Roger Chavez