Jake Hall paints the woods, waters, and working landscapes of Maine and New England in oil: birch stands at first frost, harbors at dusk, field roads that still remember the farm. Originals are available for purchase, and museum-quality prints can be ordered in any size.
Jake’s newest canvas: a clear Atlantic afternoon off the New England coast, where a single wave gathers and breaks toward shore. Beyond the surf, sailboats drift past a wooded point and gulls ride the breeze under a wide summer sky — all of it held in deep, moving blue.
Late-autumn sun pours through the canopy and floods a forest road in gold, while a bull elk pauses at the treeline, caught between shadow and light. The last red leaves burn against the dark trunks; everything else is stillness.
A commissioned commemoration of a couple’s first home, painted for the family who lived there. The old saltbox and its weathered tractor rest in the full light of summer, exactly as they knew it.
Pale birches lean over a dark stream threading through a golden marsh, their reflections broken by drifting leaves. Painted at the turn of the season, when the grasses go to amber and the water turns to glass.
Jake’s first oil painting, completed in 2006 from a scene that had stayed with him since 2003. A small red sloop rides at anchor as the last light fades to deep harbor blue, painted on canvas board and rediscovered years later.
A quiet field rests beneath distant shadowed skies, where wild grasses grow freely and time feels suspended. A lone deer grazes near an aging barn while a worn path splits the trees, a quiet invitation toward the stillness found in the unknown.
Jake’s reimagining of a classic Asher Brown Durand landscape, and his first recreation of a Hudson River School masterpiece. Cattle wade into the shallows where the river bends beneath sunlit oaks, the whole scene carried by his own love of nature.
A great bank of cloud drifts over a White Mountains ridgeline while the valley below blazes with early-autumn color, spruce and hardwood tumbling down toward the eye. Painted from a high overlook, at the moment the season turns.
A tidal salt marsh catches fire at sunset, the creek winding gold through the grass as a few birds cross an amber and violet sky. A weathered tree leans in from the near bank, keeping its watch over the flats.
In a foggy, melting landscape, dark trees reach through the haze as if searching for something gone. The painting reflects emotional disarray, where confusion lingers and clarity never came.
A green boat rides at its mooring in a calm Maine harbor, flag hanging still in the summer air, a dock and anchored sailboats beyond. Flat water, high light, and the particular quiet of a working harbor at rest.
The sun drops behind a distant red barn as a lone bare tree throws its shadow across snow lit in blue, gold, and rose. Jake’s most saturated, impressionistic take on a New England winter evening.
A lone oak keeps watch over a summer hillside, its canopy heavy in the afternoon light while a weathered shed leans at the field’s edge. Sunlight fans across the grass in soft rays, and a wheel-rutted track draws the eye up the slope. Warm, spacious, and unhurried.
The sun drops to the treeline and sets a green field ablaze, its last rays fanning across the grass beneath a sky of deep blue and violet cloud. One of Jake’s boldest skies, painted for the few minutes when the whole world turns to gold.
A weathered homestead rests at the edge of a golden meadow, blue mountains rising in the distance as a shaft of afternoon light breaks across the field. A young spruce and a tangle of wildflowers frame a scene of quiet, sunlit solitude.
A heavy sky rolls in off the Atlantic, and along the horizon the clouds part to let a low band of gold spill across the water. On the cool sand one figure walks with a metal detector while another passes with a dog — small and human beneath all that weather — as the dune grass catches the last warm light. A quiet Maine shore at the turning of the day.
Jake Hall is a self-taught oil painter based in Portland, Maine. He has only been painting for about four years, yet the instinct runs much deeper. Jake has had an artistic streak since adolescence, experimenting across different media long before he ever picked up a brush.
His style is unmistakable: meticulous attention to detail wrapped in an impressionistic, storytelling spirit. He paints the forests, farmland, harbors, and shifting light of Maine and greater New England, takes private commissions, and his originals hang in collections across the region.
Each original is sold directly by the artist. Send a note with the title you are interested in, and Jake will reply with availability, size, price, and delivery options for your area.
Start an inquiryPrints are available through Jake's Etsy shop, made to order on museum-quality paper and canvas. Choose any available painting, then pick your size and finish. Each print is produced when you order it and shipped straight to your door.
For questions about original paintings, commissions, or exhibitions, reach out directly. Studio visits in Portland, Maine by appointment.