Contemporary Still Life Paintings

This series of paintings explores the still life as a space for quiet reflection and emotional resonance. Everyday objects, bowls, flowers, tables...are simply reduced to their essential forms, allowing line, color, and surface to carry the narrative. Rather than documenting or copying an existing moment, each painting allows for an ongoing dialogue between observation and intuition.

Influenced by modernist still life traditions, the series favors simplification over realism and feeling over description. The flowers are not botanical studies but symbols—gestures of presence, fragility, and persistence.

 

Each work is built through a process of layering, revision, and reduction. Expressive line and a restrained palette create harmony across the series, while subtle variations in color, scale, and gesture ensure that each painting stands confidently on its own. The surfaces retain visible evidence of the artist’s hand, giving every piece a sense of authenticity and permanence.

  • A Song With No Name by Greg Gearlds, Mixed Media, 24 x 18
  • Steady Blue by Greg Gearlds, Mixed Media, 24 x 18
  • Bowl of Apples by Greg Gearlds, Mixed Media, 18 x 24
  • Is That Milk by Greg Gearlds, Mixed Media, 20 x 16
  • Flowers With Lunch II by Greg Gearlds, Mixed Media, 24 x 24 x 1.5
  • How-bout-dem-apples by Greg Gearlds, Acrylic, 24 x 18
  • Clock-Watcher by Greg Gearlds, Acrylic, 20 x 16
  • The Empty Glass by Greg Gearlds, Acrylic, 20 x 16
  • The Lost Orange by Greg Gearlds, Acrylic, 14 x 11
  • Fake Flowers and A Wooden Bowl by Greg Gearlds, Acrylic, 14 x 11
  • One Olive by Greg Gearlds, Acrylic, 24 x 18
  • Snapdragons and Lemonade by Greg Gearlds, Mixed Media, 16 x 12