jake still

Lives and works in New York, NY

Jake Still’s paintings emerge from a slow dialogue between control and surrender. Working in oil and acrylic, he builds fields of color that drift between clarity and blur, evoking the feeling of something seen through time rather than in it. His surfaces carry stains, washes, and marks that recall weather, memory, and breath, traces of thought made visible through pigment.

Still’s process balances intuition with restraint. Color pools and bleeds into unprimed canvas, forming transient landscapes that hover between the natural and the emotional. Each painting holds a quiet tension, a push and pull between openness and density, gesture and atmosphere, inviting viewers into the moment where image dissolves into sensation.