Still Life at Night

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 4ft
Creation Date: 2024
Collection: Out of Darkness

Still Life at Night (2024) is a painting of silence — of shapes that no longer shout, but remain. At 48 x 48 inches, this acrylic painting from the Black and White Collection renders the classic still life genre in absence, shadow, and tone.

Objects are only barely suggested — a curve that could be a vase, a vertical stack hinting at books or boxes. The painting is layered in deep blacks and midnight grays, with soft edges glowing in thin white lines, like moonlight barely tracing their contours. What’s present is the mood: quiet, slow, watchful.

I painted Still Life at Night in low light, letting my eyes guide me more by intuition than sight. It was about capturing what things feel like when you can’t fully see them — when presence is sensed, not studied.

This work reflects the tonal restraint of Giorgio Morandi, but filtered through the noir abstraction of Mark Tobey. It’s not about the things. It’s about what lingers when they’re left alone.

Still Life at Night isn’t about objects. It’s about pause — the kind you find in darkened rooms and quiet hearts.