21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings

"Elegant Still Life of Two Gold Metal Cups on Patterned Fabric," 24 x 24 Inches. Look carefully and you will see the artist at work in the studio reflected in the sparkling surfaces...

Wendy Artin is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in watercolor and charcoal. Her work is figurative and classical and explores the timeless interaction of light and pigment on surface, with subjects ranging from the human figure to fresh fruits and vegetables, architectures, statues and city walls. "I love paper, and the way pigments are transported along a thin surface of transparent water then dry. Although my paintings are often classical, I studied at the Museum School in Boston and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris when marks, gesture and atmosphere were of greatest importance. As I travelled more and more, the charcoal and oils gave way to a small watercolor box...

A Place Without Time Michael Protiva (20th/21st Century) Signed Lower Left 48 x 60 inches 49.25 x 61.25 inches with frame Michael Protiva's interest i...

"February Thaw" (2025) is a beautiful original impasto oil painting, created on linen panel by American artist Sandra Pratt, which depicts a small red barn in a peaceful mid-winter l...

This is a beautiful painting by Alberto de Blobs (Barcleona, 1982). Alberto is a talented painter whose elaborate mixture of figurative and free form abstraction create a highly illu...

Jason Walker's (CAN based) "Plastic Figure 1" is an oil painting that depicts a lone pink plastic Cowboy figure toy standing with his gun on his shoulder...

When you look at this painting ''Cherry Blossom" by Dutch artist Sasja Wagenaar (1959) from a distance you see a perfectly painted image, but up close a generous paint streak is visi...

A fine impressionist still life with irises in a glass vase by contemporary American artist Stephen Motyka (b. 1964). Stephen was born in Rhode Island and started painting and drawin...

This atmospheric fine art painting presents an intimate indoor hot tub scene, where warm, ambient lamp light contrasts with the deep, glowing blue water of the spa, in the shape of a...

Signed on reverse Andrea Vandoni is an Italian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Novara, Italy. The artist studied and trained at the School of the Archaeologists and the S...

The fragility of the environment has always played an important role in Christina Haglid's work. As a child growing up on the East Coast, the ever changing seaside landscapes intrig...

Colorful expressionist still-life painting on canvas.

White Lily Naranjas And Oranges 2021 RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After living in New Mexico and Hawaii establishe...

"New Year's Interior" is a bright still life with a view in red and pink hues. Traditional gesso base made with marble dust and rabbit glue. Kelly Carmody’s work has been widely exh...

Contemporary realistic Texas landscape nature painting by Houston based artist Jerry Greenberg. The work features a group of blooming water lilies floating in a tranquil lake amongst the reeds. Signed in the front lower right corner as well as titled on the reverse. Currently hung in a gold frame. Dimensions Without Frame: H 30 in. x W 46 in. Artist Biography: I have a deep appreciation for nature. In my work I seek to convey the landscape as I experience it emotionally as well as visually. I travel frequently throughout the United States and Europe in search of new landscapes. Some of my favorite subjects include rivers and creeks in the Texas hill country; aspen trees in the Rocky Mountains; ponds in New England; and lush rolling hills in the English countryside. My influences include French and Russian Impressionists and early California landscape...

This painting features hues of yellow and green. Chattanooga-based artist Christina Renfer Vogel’s “Turning Towards the Sun” features paintings...

Stanley Bielen In Waiting, 2024 Oil on paper/mounted 7 x 13 in. (bie084) Stanley Bielen’s paintings often begin with him planting the flower that he intends to capture in paint. He ...

Realist painter Doug Newton says, "Inspired by my collection of sea shells. The subtle colors and textures of the shells are challenging to capture in oil paint. I paint directly fro...

Anne Harney is a representational painter beginning her work from observation and concluding with a mix of imagination. “I prefer to begin my work from life. My landscape paintings u...

Of Polish descent and now living in London, Ania Pieniazek creates bold, bright art full of everyday joy and pleasure. Influenced by Gustav Klimt, Paul Gauguin and Zbyslaw Marek Mac...

Jason Walker's (CAN based) "Plastic Figure 7" is an oil painting that depicts a lone red plastic Native American figure toy aiming his bow and arrow into the darkness. Group photo...

Inspired by some Queen Anne's Lace in our garden and the effects of light on some glassware. I hope the viewer will appreciate the beauty in the most ordinary things. Painted in oil ...

Olga Antonova’s subject is compositions of extraordinarily elegant, beautiful and whimsical cups, plates, teapots, and dishes, but there is something playful about these paintings. Stacked teacups are also amusing, having a kind of jaunty and upbeat personality of their own. Polka dots are as endearing to adults as to children, and everyone responds to the bling and sparkle of gold and silver while marveling at Antonova’s seemingly effortless ability to paint these radiant details...

Rebecca Mason Adams' "Hand Study #1" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts a monochromatic hand grasping fabric that is full of cascading ...

Arlo Sinclair is a computer programmer turned artist. What happens when you mix coding, an 80s gaming addiction and fine art? His creations pay homage to the functional beauty of obs...

Sunflower with Bunting Bird

"Nasturtium, Diptych" is an abstract diptych painting of two potted plants. On the lefthand canvas the background is painted a thin hookers green and resin was poured over the top. The potted flower is painted over the resin, sitting on a white stippled table with a thick yellow edge. Yellow stipples are painted around the plant. The righthand painting has intentionally exposed canvas soft smudges of green paint through the middle of the canvas and navy up in the upper lefthand corner, at the middle of the composition. A heavy impasto flower...

This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. A striking fusion of delicacy and opulence, Ornamental Poppies...

Original oil painting by Robert C. Jackson

In this passionate dance of colors, I've captured the vibrant essence of life itself through the allegory of pomegranates. Oil paint weaves a textural symphony, blending realism with...

This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sens...

Big Blooms No. 7 is a botanical collage artwork created with Hand Cut dyed paper by Deborah Weiss. The artwork is 28x22 and is in a white frame. The fr...

Title: Shy Flowers Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19 x 19 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This paintin...

THE PARTY Size: 40 x 40 cm (including frame) Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas An engaging and playful contemporary abstract still life composition that uses a combination of geometr...

This painting features hues of green, purple, blue, red, and yellow. This surrealist portrait features blue birds, flowers, fruits and vegetables, and patterns. Guy Robinson is insp...

Alex Amann’s oeuvre contains a variety of genres, which are, however, well-coordinated through their design. He devotes himself to still life as well as to landscape painting and fig...

Hand signed on the back Corine Lescop is a French-Canadian artist born in 1960 who lives & works in Wolowe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium. As visual artist in oil painting & calligraphy, Co...

Autumn Flowers, Oil on Board Painting by Jane Skingley B. 1963 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 30 x 30 cm 11 3/4 x 11 3/4 in Jane Skingley paints seascapes and landsca...

"Luscious" is a stunning, bright, minimal style painting with a tropical fuchsia and white flower in the centre of a rich golden background. Artist Anastasia Gklava is an expert at a...

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About Mark Schiff — Animated by photographs that reflect his personal life, Mark Schiff’s paintings are fueled by what makes him happy. Through his open touch and signature blending method, he lends his artistic perception to the original photographic compositions captured on his Leica. Mark’s creative vision has been alive since he was a boy. As a child he spent his summers observing life as he rode the trolley back and forth to art classes at the Pratt Institute. During his future travels to Europe, Mark’s eye for light and photography merged with his passion for painting at the Jeu de Paume in Paris; which triggered his career in photorealism. Mark is well known for painting objects that people can identify and emotionally connect with. His work is distinctly marked by a rich palette and the luminous range of light he paints into his compositions. Each painting is a true extension of his vision and can take up to 200 hours to complete. Mark Schiff’s work has been commissioned by the well-known brands The Hershey Company and Tropicana. His private collectors include A-list celebrities and also corporate collectors in the US and abroad. Possessing a strong philanthropic nature, Mark donates both his time and works to charitable organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, The Ronald McDonald House, Make-A-Wish Foundation, The Humane Society and the Special Olympics. Photorealism is widely viewed as one of this century’s most exciting genres of art. When a photorealistic painting is viewed from afar, it looks like a photograph. Only when getting very close to the art does the viewer realize that it is in fact not a photo, but rather an oil painting. Photorealism can also refer to sculptures. Duane Hanson is known as the greatest photorealistic sculptor of all time. Some of the greatest photorealistic painters include Mark Schiff, Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Charles Bell and Audrey Flack. Photorealist Mark Schiff was born in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, in a neighborhood known as a kuchalane, a Yiddish word which Schiff defines as a place where everyone (from the Old Country) ended up living on the same street, and most likely knowing each other’s business. His Russian grandfather came to the US before the revolution and both his parents were first generation American. Even at five years of age, Mark showed exceptional talent. In the summer, his mother permitted him to travel by himself on the trolley for art classes at the Pratt institute. He continued studying there until he was eleven and the family moved to Great Neck. Except for a few art classes in high school and playing baritone horn in the band, Mark focused on other things besides art, especially when his mother worried for his financial future, kept insisting “that Jewish boys don’t starve to death.” His father made a good living as a production man in textiles so Mark, who had spent years doing the rounds of knitting mills with his father, decided to major in textile chemistry at North Carolina State. ROTC was mandatory on his campus and he did two years in order to be eligible for officer status. He won the Armed Forces Chemical Association award and thought for sure that he would be assigned chemical work, but instead was made a tank commander and stationed at Fort Knox. Not exactly what his heart yearned for, but a good job awaited him at Sandoz, a Swiss company that made dyestuff. What perfect training for someone who would soon be working in wonderful rich colors on canvas. He went on to receive his MBA degree from Hofstra University, left Sandoz and was hired to sell at a spinning mill. He liked it. In 1976 he joined Bennett Berman Associates and had an opportunity to buy the spinning mill Spun Fibers. But what of art? In the early days, Elsie, his wife of fifty-two years, had a problem with the large amount of space his canvases occupied in their one bedroom apartment. Mark took up photography instead, which only required a small darkroom. Photography was a natural ally for his eventual return to painting in the photorealistic style. It was on his second trip to Europe that Mark fell in love with painting all over again. The impressionistic museum, Jeu de Paume in Paris, renewed his passion and it’s been non-stop since then. Out came the brushes, but this time, he used his love and skill of photography, and built a style based on the photographs he had taken, bringing them to life with paint. Mark was still not painting to sell until in 1990 when someone discovered and desperately wanted his candy bar (Sweet Series) painting. Mark didn’t want to let go of that particular piece, but was finally convinced to sell it and a second candy painting to this ardent art and candy lover. Two years later, Mark was commissioned to make three paintings of this man’s new Ferrari. Some of the artists who have inspired his work are Richard Estes, Sandy Scott, Chuck Close, and Charles Bell. He appreciates the work of Ken Keeley, but unlike Keeley’s hard-lined/tape and ruler style, Mark prefers an open touch, using the blending method. Mark’s subject matters range from candy bars to spice racks to soda cans and soda bottles. He photographs with a Leica M-7 and each painting can take up to 200 or more hours to complete. His palette is rich; his subjects, be it a fire engine or a pretzel cart, take on a luminous quality, always photoreal, but even more beautiful. Mark developed his own technique for working with bottles by painting a canvas all black, so that the transparency of the bottles allows a wonderful range of light to filter through. The same light and reflection can be seen in the black rotary phone...

Copper and Carnations by Lu Haskew Oil 16x24" image size, 24x32" Framed Still life in reds and pinks ABOUT THE ARTIST: Lu Haskew 1921-2009 "Life is good to me. Being able to go to ...

Italian artist Fabio Coruzzi merges painting and photography into one imaginative image that offers a new outlook on an otherwise ordinary urban scene. His artworks represent an auth...

Doug Newton’s hyper-real paintings observe reality, explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with all the ways light can transform our perceptions. His subject matter concentrates on still lives of food, toys, candy and household objects. In addition to many group shows across the country, Mr. Newton’s show, “HARD CANDY and other confections” represents his fifth solo exhibition. His paintings have been collected in numerous private collections. Mr. Newton resides in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Sonia Coman writes in her essay, Doug Newton’s hard candy: the confection of painting Doug Newton’s paintings are about… painting. The hyperrealist technique of trompe l’oeil or “trick the eye” is knowingly playful. It simultaneously calls attention to the illusion of a different material—for example, translucent candy wrappers—and the reality of the layers of paint, masterfully applied to the canvas. In that, Newton’s paintings pay homage to an esteemed series of trompe l’oeil masters, from Inquisition-era Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán to Gilded-Age American painter William Michael Harnett...

Artist: Vahram Meliqsetyan Title: Armenian Church (Kecharis) Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2024 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 25.5" x 20" x 0.8" inch (65 x 50 x 2cm) Presentation: U...

Title: Above The Grinding Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 11.5 x 15.5 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This pa...

This painting features hues of green, purple and blue. This surrealist still life has an elephant, turtle shell, sea shell, skull, blue vase and flowers. Guy Robinson is inspired by...

Fabian Jean graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University. He has had solo exhibitions in Montreal, Toronto and Halifax and has been included in several group exhi...

"I'm Still July" is a 20x16 oil painting on canvas by artist Tershovska. Featured is a bright red flower on a contrasting deep green background. Expressive thick paint usage gives l...

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. This is a beautiful large botanical oil painting of ...

From the cycle LYRICAL Fire, 31x30cm, gouache, paper, razor

Katrina Revenaugh Piccolo Giardino Numero 1 Archival Pigment Ink, Acrylic, Spray Paint and Gold Leaf on Birch Panel Year: 2024 Size: 6 x 6 x 1.75 inches Signed: On Verso COA provided...

Title: Photo Realism I Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 23.5 x 20 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This p...

An impressionistic depiction of a blue porcelain vase with a burst of blue flowers exploding with color and bold marks. Alfaro bridges the Baroque cultural movement onto his canvases...

Beach Walk - The painting was created in 2025 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon’s w...

Oil on canvas Tinatin Chkhikvishvili is a Georgian artist born in 1980 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She was graduated in 2002 from ...

During his successful career as a goldsmith the desire to paint grew on Dutch artist René Smoorenburg (1954). The attention to detail, which was of gr...

This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. The original realism painting by Martha Nairn is framed and rea...

Yury was born in Belarus. Graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of the Arts. Upon graduation He began a career in the illustration and graphic design field, painting in his spa...

"The Rose 03.12.2014" is a realist oil on linen painting. It depicts a rose reaching up from a glass vase with a dark green and black background. Frame Dimensions 8 x 6inches Fra...