Still Life
This tag marks artwork built around arranged objects, fruit, flowers, household items, rather than a person, landscape, or scene from life. Still life gives an artist full control over composition and lighting, since nothing in the arrangement is moving or changing on its own. Use this tag to browse work that finds real visual interest in ordinary, carefully arranged objects, a tradition that stretches back centuries in art history and remains a genuine test of technical skill.
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Jeffrey T Larson
Jeffrey T Larson is an American painter working in the classical realist tradition, known for still lifes, figures, and portraits built on careful drawing and quiet natural light. Trained at Atelier Lack, he now paints and teaches from a converted schoolhouse in rural Wisconsin.
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Steve Weed
Steve Weed is an American painter based in Colorado Springs, known for expressive portraits that capture subtle human emotion. After the 2012 Waldo Canyon Fire, he created his Ashes to Art series by mixing collected ash into his paint, and an auction of the work raised over $40,000 for community recovery.
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David Riedel
David Riedel is an American painter born in Indiana in 1956 known for still lifes built around chiaroscuro and dramatic lighting in the tradition of the Old Masters. He studied at the Art Students League under David Leffel and now paints landscapes from his home in Portland, Oregon.
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Mina dela Cruz
Mina dela Cruz is a Canadian realist painter based in Toronto who was born in the Philippines and left a career in human resources in 2004 to paint full time. Largely self-taught, she focuses on still life and portraiture rendered with classical technique and careful attention to detail.
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Elena Katsyura
Elena Katsyura is a Russian artist born in Chelyabinsk who blends Russian realism with French Impressionism. She spent several years in California before returning to Russia in 2010, and her best known work is a tender portrait of her daughter painted in the early morning light.
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David Leffel
David Leffel is an American realist painter born in Brooklyn in 1931 who taught at the Art Students League of New York for 25 years after studying under Frank Mason. Known for masterful light and shadow influenced by the Dutch and Flemish Old Masters, he now lives and paints in Taos, New Mexico.
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Cher Pruys
Cher Pruys is a self-taught Canadian realist painter born in Regina who now lives in Devlin, Ontario, beside the Rainy River. She was the first recipient of the Mary Pratt Crystal Award of Excellence, and beyond painting she also works in fused glass and teaches piano and guitar; her painting The Bubble toured with the…
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William Merritt Chase
William Merritt Chase was an American painter born on November 1, 1849, in Williamsburg, Indiana, who studied at the Royal Academy in Munich before returning home to build his career. His painting Keying Up – The Court Jester won a medal at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition and brought him his first fame, and he…
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Carolina Landea
Carolina Landea is a Chilean painter born in Santiago in 1960 who began her training in Madrid under Jose Luis Azparren before continuing her studies back in Chile. She comes from a family of noted artists, including her grandfather Pablo Burchard, and now lives in the coastal village of Cachagua, where she paints stories of…
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Neil Carroll
Neil Carroll is a self-taught painter from London who came back to art in 2011 after years away from it, and became a full-time painter in 2017. Working mostly in oils, he calls himself a Daily Painter, finishing and releasing a new piece almost every day, stripping away detail to focus on mood and atmosphere.
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Shirley Novak
Shirley Novak is a painter born and raised in California who now lives in Colorado, known for flower paintings, especially poppies, done in oils with a wet on wet technique. She trained under mentor Len Chmiel and paints en plein air whenever she can, whether in her own garden or on the road. Her lifelong…
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Blair Atherholt
Blair Atherholt is an American painter born in 1991 who trained at the Schuler School of Fine Arts in Baltimore, learning traditional techniques rooted in the Old Masters. He is known for still life paintings that mix classical discipline with a contemporary, imaginative touch, and his work has won awards in national juried shows including…
