Often painting scenes from the locales where he resides and works, Paolo Icasas (b. 1981) has veered away from the traditional rural landscapes, usually with an accompanying representation of Filipino peasant life, but kept similar sentiments.

His recent works, which revolve around themes of rest and uncertainty, have less urban elements than before. Still, his landscapes remain strange yet familiar, a place that perhaps one has gone before in life or in a dream, invoking a feeling, a memory, evoking a yearning for home or what used to be such.

Notable are his large-sized paintings, immersive in scale and lushly tactile in texture, with thick strokes and heavy smears of oil paint, sometimes infused with ground charcoal, rough, relief-like. These, he has previously shown in one-man exhibitions in The Cultural Center Of The Philippines and Blanc Gallery respectively.