Skreber's houses fabricate an environment of pressurised containment. Set against a deadened ‘sky' and bathed in ethereal light, Skreber's landscape is given surreal underwater effect. The houses, dripping in an upward stream, create a strange weightlessness, beatific in their paralysing calm. Skreber's paintings yield an atmosphere of sedate dissolution, where horror and beauty are suspended beyond comprehensible scope. His painting captures the purity of detachment. Emotion is replaced with torpid claustrophobia; deafening and airless, it expresses sentiment devoid of identifiable sensation: a visual representation of the purely cerebral.