Secret Places

The trees don’t sleep at night
they drink the silence
and breathe the breeze
that rustles the leaves
until new light is born.

When you walk deep into a forest, you’ll find them: secret and quiet places, where almost nobody ever comes.
The wind and the sun play with grass and leaves, painting together a constantly changing scenery…

Misty Winter Morning - Surrealistic impressionism Fine Art

Misty Winter Morning

Morning breaks over the silent world
Clouds of mist rise from the fields,
carrying the cold of a winter's night

Early on a misty morning, I go out for a walk through the fields. Cold mist rises from the ground. At the edge of a lake, a group of pines welcome the light.

Digital art

Winter Evening At The Pond - See the evening sun color the world, reflecting in the rippling water of the pond - Surrealistic digital artwork by Jacob Berghoef

Winter Evening At The Pond

I sit on a stone,
on the east side of the pond

Staring at the water,
waiting.
Nobody understands why

All I want is to see how
the setting sun colors the garden
in the ripples
of a winter breeze.

Digital Art

Spring Morning At The Pond - Surrealistic impressionistic artwork by Jacob Berghoef

Spring Morning At The Pond

I sit on a stone, 
on the west side of the pond

Staring at the water, 
     waiting. 
Nobody understands why

All I want is to see how 
the rising sun colors the flowers 
     in the ripples 
of a gentle spring breeze.

Digital art

Nothing, and no one, appears

Timeless

Nothing, and no one, appears "just like that" in your life. There is always much to learn from both people, objects, situations and seemingly random circumstances.

In our new garden, among other things, a ginkgo biloba is growing. An extraordinary tree. Just before the dark days of winter, this tree lights up brightly one more time with its golden yellow leaves before letting them go. The ginkgo symbolises resilience, original life force and timelessness, among other things.
The triangle has been used as a symbol of spiritualism and enlightenment since the dawn of human civilization.

Digital art

Mirror of light

Mirror of light
A few rays of sunlight
escaping into the darkness

NATURE RESERVE LÖVÖ, KALMAR REGION

Waiting For The Moon - Surrealistic impressionism Fine Art

Waiting For The Moon

Birch trees in ice blue
dusk, leaning patiently
against the evening wind,
waiting for the moon.

A night is not a night until the moon is visible.

Don't you think that too, that a night is not really a night until there is a moon? A full moon or a tiny, fragile crescent moon, it is special if it is there.

Digital art

Fading Colors Of The Earth - Surrealistic impressionism Fine Art

Fading Colors Of The Earth

Please read this post about this artwork.

Digital art

And Then The Sun Stood Still - Winter solstice, the sun seems to stand still for a few days, before it turns towards us again. - Impressionistic digital art by Jacob Berghoef

And Then The Sun Stood Still - Winter

Winter solstice, the sun seems to stand still for a few days, before it turns towards us again. The light returns.

Digital art

And Then The Sun Stood Still - Summer Solstice - 3-2

And Then The Sun Stood Still - Summer

Summer solstice, the light is moving away from us. The days get shorter and darkness takes over again.

Digital art

First Kiss Of Light - A bright morning arrives fresh and new ~Pine trees lean toward the first kiss of light ~We walk together among the trees ~as the sun climbs into a warm spring day - Surrealistic digital artwork based on fine art landscape photography by Jacob Berghoef

First Kiss Of Light (3)

A bright morning arrives fresh and new
Pine trees lean toward the first kiss of light
We walk together among the trees
as the sun climbs into a warm spring day

As we wandered through a beautiful dark spruce forest in southeastern Sweden on the edge of the Baltic Sea early in the morning on a cold winter day, the dark trunks of the spruces were suddenly kissed by the rising sun.

Digital art

Mirror of light

Mirror of light
A few rays of sunlight
escaping into the darkness

NATURE RESERVE LÖVÖ, KALMAR REGION

Winter Evening - The forest falls asleep in tenderly tinted winter light - Surrealistic impressionistic fine art photography by Jacob Berghoef

Winter Evening

The forest falls asleep in tenderly tinted winter light.

Digital art

Winter Morning - The forest awakens in tenderly tinted winter light - Surrealistic impressionistic fine art photography by Jacob Berghoef

Winter Morning

The forest awakens in tenderly tinted winter light.

Digital art

First Kiss Of Light - A bright morning arrives fresh and new ~Pine trees lean toward the first kiss of light ~We walk together among the trees ~as the sun climbs into a warm spring day - Surrealistic digital artwork based on fine art landscape photography by Jacob Berghoef

First Kiss Of Light

A bright morning arrives fresh and new
Pine trees lean toward the first kiss of light
We walk together among the trees
as the sun climbs into a warm spring day

Digital art

Wandering Dreams - Many people dream of an earth that is safe and clean, that is treated with care so that it can give enough to all its inhabitants without becoming exhausted. Only when all those dreams come to life in common sense and people take action to live differently will that dream become a reality. - Surrealistic digital artwork by Jacob Berghoef

Wandering Dreams

Dreams wander
between the trees,
waiting, longing
to be reborn as
common sense
in a new time

Many people dream of an earth that is safe and clean, that is treated with care so that it can give enough to all its inhabitants without becoming exhausted.

Only when all those dreams come to life in common sense and people take action to live differently will that dream become a reality.

Digital art

Colorful Days - A call to restore and preserve the multi-coloured nature

Colorful Days

Digital art

 

Mirror of light

Mirror of light
A few rays of sunlight
escaping into the darkness

NATURE RESERVE LÖVÖ, KALMAR REGION

Colorful Evening - A call to restore and preserve the multi-coloured nature

Colorful Evening

Digital art

 

Colorful Twilight - A call to restore and preserve the multi-coloured nature

Colorful Twilight

Digital art

 

The artwork 'Colorful Days' gave name to the small series 'Colorful Days'.

This series is an indictment of the greed for buying, the unbridled consumption that many people, living in so-called "developed countries," practice on a daily basis.
The works ask the viewer the question, "What have you done to preserve my color, to restore colors where they are fading, to bring more color into the gray world that people create around them and where there is no place for nature anymore."

They are a call to boycott the increasing number of "black days" like Black Friday, days that further fuel humanity's consumerism. They are telling you that living with nature, preserving and restoring nature, is only possible if Western man consumes significantly less. And what is consumed must be produced colorfully, that is, in harmony with nature.

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Colorful Morning - A call to restore and preserve the multi-coloured nature

Colorful Morning

Digital art

In A Dream - In a dream you came to me on the silver of a winter morning. Without a sound you disappeared into the light - Abstract realistic digital art by Jacob Berghoef

In A Dream

In a dream

you came to me on the silver
of a winter morning

Without a sound

you disappeared
into the light

Digital art

 

Mirror of light

Mirror of light
A few rays of sunlight
escaping into the darkness

NATURE RESERVE LÖVÖ, KALMAR REGION

The Narrow Path - Impressionistic digital art of a forrest path, based on a photograph, by Jacob Berghoef

The Narrow Path

Digital artwork of a forest path, based on an impressionistic photograph, of course made by me ;)

Digital artwork of a forest path, based on an impressionistic photograph, of course made by me ;)

Digital art

Trees Cry - Impressionistic surrealistic digital artwork by Jacob Berghoef

Trees Cry

Thick clouds of black
smoke darken the sun
Eyes tear,
trees cry
The sun colors the evening
in the hues of the flames that
eat tree after tree
How high may become
the price the future
will have to pay?

Digital art

The First Light - Trees in golden morning light - Digital artwork based on fine art photography by Jacob Berghoef

The First Light (2)

The first light
Slowly awakening trees,
for a brief moment
woven in liquid gold

A digital artwork based on a photo I made it at sunrise, standing in the drowned fields in front of our house in a very wet autumn about 8 years ago.

Digital art

Colors Of The Evening The night awakens, my eyes slowly blend the colors of the evening, painting the world ever more muted, ever softer until I slip into a dream 'Colors Of The Evening' is a new digital artwork in my collections ‘Secret Places’ and 'Digital Arts',

Colors Of The Evening

The night awakens,
my eyes slowly blend
the colors of the evening,
painting the world
ever more muted, ever softer
until I slip into a dream

Digital art

Frozen Sunrise - The sun rises over e snowy forest. Whatever you celebrate today, make it a beautiful, colorful day, and take a moment to think and care about all who/what are/is vulnerable and needy on this earth. - Impressionistic digital art by Jacob Berghoef

Frozen Sunrise

A silent walk among the pines
through the dissolving silver-blue mist
Sunrise illuminates the snowy trees

and fills the sky with a new day

Digital art

Mirror of light

Mirror of light
A few rays of sunlight
escaping into the darkness

NATURE RESERVE LÖVÖ, KALMAR REGION

Colors Of The Morning - The day awakens, my eyes slowly blend the colors of the morning, painting the world ever brighter, ever sharper, until the dream is gone - Abstract realistic digital artwork, forestscape photography by Jacob Berghoef

Colors Of The Morning

The day awakens,
my eyes slowly blend
the colors of the morning,
painting the world
ever brighter, ever sharper,
until the dream is gone

Digital art

Winter Night - Purple hazes swirl between the bare trees. This cold winter evening welcomes a moonlit night - Transformed digital color photograph by Jacob Berghoef

Winter Night

Purple hazes swirl
between the bare trees
This cold winter evening
welcomes a moonlit night

Digital art

Summer Evening At The Pond - See the evening sun color the flowers, reflecting in the rippling water of the pond - Surrealistic digital artwork by Jacob Berghoef

Summer Evening At The Pond

I sit on a stone,
on the east side of the pond

Staring at the water,
       waiting.
Nobody understands why

All I want is to see how
the setting sun colors the flowers
       in the ripples
of a summer breeze.

Digital art

A Glimpse Of Flight -

A Glimpse Of Flight

[...] When she wakes

she lifts the shade, impatient for a glimpse
of flight: a sparrow, a swallowtail—
something with wings she can memorize.

The above stanza is from Laura Ann Reed's poem "As Clouds Before the Wind", and inspired me to make this artwork.
Laura Ann is a poet from the US, her work particularly appeals to me. Moreover, she is a very inspiring woman; I am fortunate to have a regular email contact with her.

Read more about her here on her website and the entire poem here.

Digital art

Scorched Earth - surrealistic digital art based on fine art photography by Jacob Berghoef. - A cry for climate action

Scorched Earth

I think you all know by now that I am not a screamer. But sometimes you just have to stand outside, look up at the sky and scream really loud...

The climate crisis is one such issue that sometimes makes me want to shout about it. Read more about this artwork here.

Digital art

Mirror of light

Mirror of light
A few rays of sunlight
escaping into the darkness

NATURE RESERVE LÖVÖ, KALMAR REGION

Winter Evening - In the thin air of a cold winter day, the light silently fades behind the trees. The forest becomes silent. - Abstract realistic digital artwork, transformed forestscape photography by Jacob Berghoef

Winter Evening

In the thin air of a cold winter day, the light silently fades behind the trees. The forest becomes silent.

Digital art

Into The Day - It's still dim when I wake up. I get out, I can't stay in bed. For a moment I go outside, it is cold. I enjoy the quiet first hours of the day. Then you wake up. A warm hand, a warm hug. The day begins. - Surrealistic forestscape, digital art based on fine art landscape photography by Jacob Berghoef

Into The Day

Early in the morning I am
alone, breathing
the cold remnants of
the night, thoughts
wandering in silence, waiting
for the new light. Your hand
brings me to the now,
caresses me, together
we walk into the day. 

It's still dim when I wake up. I get out, I can't stay in bed. For a moment I go outside, it is cold. I enjoy the quiet first hours of the day.

Then you wake up. Your hand touches me, a warm embrace, a kiss. The day begins.

Digital art

Crying Pine Tree (1) - Abstract realistic fine art forestscape photography by Jacob Berghoef

Crying Pine Tree

Crying pine tree –
Blue rain falling to earth,
mixed tears of happiness.

NATURE RESERVE LÖVÖ, KALMAR REGION, SWEDEN

At Daybreak - Abstract surrealistic & impressionistic fine art forestscape photography by Jacob Berghoef

At Daybreak

At daybreak
The tops of pine trees
hit by sunlight

Early in the morning, it's quiet after a night full of mysterious sounds. Suddenly the first sunlight hits the tops of the pine trees, the forest awakes.

VILSBØL KLITPLANTAGE, THY REGION, NORTH JUTLAND, DENMARK

Wrapped In Gold - An autumn evening, yellow leaves gently fall to the ground. The sunlight wraps them in gold - Surrealistic impressionistic fine art nature photography by Jacob Berghoef

Wrapped In Gold

Alone, listening
to the fading day
The trees
give their yellow leaves
back to the earth
They know what I need:
silence
wrapped in gold

An autumn evening, there is silence in the forest. Yellow leaves gently fall to the ground. The sunlight wraps them in gold...

DOVER PLANTAGE, FOREST NEAR THE CITY OF HURUP THY, DENMARK

Mirror of light

Mirror of light
A few rays of sunlight
escaping into the darkness

NATURE RESERVE LÖVÖ, KALMAR REGION

Thousand Leaves - On a warm summer day thousand leaves let go and glide into the light – Surrealistic impressionism - fine art landscape photography by Jacob Berghoef

Thousand Leaves

On a warm summer day
thousand leaves let go
and glide into the light

A warm summer day in the forest...

DOVER PLANTAGE, FOREST NEAR THE CITY OF HURUP THY, DENMARK

Rooted - Stillness in your heart The roots of a tree in a November storm - Digital artwork based on a photograhp by Jacob Berghoef

Rooted

Stillness in your heart
The roots of a tree
in a November storm

In all the turmoil of the world, there are trees that remain standing perfectly straight. Offering protection and holding on no matter how severe the storm rages around them. Deeply rooted, connected to the earth and to the trees around them.
Find your tree, cherish it and hold on to it.

Digital art

Crying Pine Tree (2) - Abstract realistic fine art forestscape photography by Jacob Berghoef

Crying Pine Tree (2)

Crying pine tree –
Blue rain falling to earth,
mixed tears of happiness.

NATURE RESERVE LÖVÖ, KALMAR REGION, SWEDEN

Pathway Into Oblivion - A pine forest at sunset, a walk early in the evening in the nature reserve Lövö, Kalmar region. - Surrealistic fine art landscape photography by Jacob Berghoef

Pathway Into Oblivion

Pine trees in bloom -

A pathway into what was
The light of oblivion

A walk early in the evening in a beautiful nature reserve in Sweden. The sun is almost down, the last rays of sunlight draw flowers in the pine trees.

NATURE RESERVE LÖVÖ, KALMAR REGION, SWEDEN

Silent Darkness - sometimes a forest is like a fairy tale. Usually those are the rare moments when a few rays of sunlight manage to penetrate to the soft moss through a dense canopy. - Surrealistic fine art forestscape photography by Jacob Berghoef

Silent Darkness

Silent forest
A tree hums
Dark sound

Forests often have an enchanting atmosphere. The silence that is enhanced by the murmur of leaves, the dim light, a creaking branch that makes you look around where that deer is hiding...
But sometimes a forest is like a fairy tale. Usually those are the rare moments when a few rays of sunlight manage to penetrate to the soft moss through a dense canopy.

FOREST IN NATURE RESERVE LÖVÖ, KALMAR REGION, SWEDEN

Mirror of light

Mirror of light
A few rays of sunlight
escaping into the darkness

NATURE RESERVE LÖVÖ, KALMAR REGION

Awakening Forest - Abstract realistic and impressionistic fine art nature photography by Jacob Berghoef

Awakening Forest

Snow remnants melting
A soft breeze intoxicates me
The scent of a new morning

After a period of snow and frost, it has started to rain gently. The last remnants of snow melt, the damp forest breathes the wet fragrance of new life.

DOVER PLANTAGE, NEAR THE CITY OF HURUP THY, DENMARK

Silent Light - Early in the morning the light penetrates into the darkest corners of the forest. After every night, a new day arrives… - Impressionistic fine art forestscape photography by Jacob Berghoef

Silent Light

I stand still and watch,
as the pale light of dawn
silently dispels the night.

Early in the morning the light penetrates into the darkest corners of the forest. After every night, a new day arrives…

FOREST IN NATURE RESERVE LÖVÖ, KALMAR REGION, SWEDEN

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If you want to see the complete collection 'Secret Places', click on the button below (opens on a new tab).
On the art website Saatchi Art you can find my entire portfolio. The photos are for sale as Open Edition or Limited Edition print.

If you prefer to order an artwork directly from me, please send me a message.

If you want to see the complete collection 'Infinite Sea', click on the button below (opens on a new tab).
On the art website Saatchi Art you can find my entire portfolio. The photos are for sale as Open Edition or Limited Edition print.

If you prefer to order an artwork directly from me, please send me a message.

Availability

All photos on this website are available as Open Edition fine art print and as Limited Edition fine art print in any size, on fine art cotton paper up to a maximum size of the shortest side of 110 centimeters ~ app. 43 inches*, unless a photo specifies that certain editions / sizes are no longer available.

For works with the text 'Digital art', see the page with info on those works.

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Availability

All photos on this website are available as Open Edition fine art print and as Limited Edition fine art print in any size, on fine art cotton paper up to a maximum size of the shortest side of 110 centimeters ~ app. 43 inches*, unless a photo specifies that certain editions / sizes are no longer available.

*Ask for the maximum sizes on other types of paper.

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