May 21, 20257 Comments

Dancing Summer

After a few beautiful and warm, but very dry spring weeks, almost all the plants are in bloom. With bright sunshine in the middle of the day, it seems as if summer has danced in to replace spring.

Rain is forecast for the coming week, a very welcome change in the weather...

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March 20, 20256 Comments

Waking Up In A Deep Dark Night

Sometimes, thankfully very rarely, I can't get back to sleep after I've woken up in the middle of the night. Then I get up and go to the kitchen, get some hot water from the thermos and pour it into the leftover tea from the evening before. 

While enjoying the tea with small sips, I walk to the window and look outside for a few minutes...

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March 16, 20256 Comments

Waking Up In A Moonlit Night

I love this tree, standing strong no matter the weather and season. Day and night, in darkness and in full light, it tells stories to those who take time to listen.

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March 14, 20258 Comments

Waking Up In A Winter Storm

What do you do when it storms? Do you curl up on the couch with a book and a cup of tea? Or do you go outside during a "mild" storm?

I do the latter. I like to go out for a short walk in the open field, along a lake or on the beach, to feel the power of the wind and enjoy the constantly changing skies. After that walk, when I come home, I'll do the curling up with a cup of tea... 😉

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March 12, 20258 Comments

Crystal Tree In Morning Haze

When I still lived in the Netherlands, I liked to bike to this tree every now and then, to spend some time there in the early morning silence on the bank of the river Maas, enjoying ever changing light.

For this work I used a photo that I made at the beginning of autumn. The tree was still full of leaves, and the leaves were still beautifully green.

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March 5, 20256 Comments

Beech Lane

We stroll along a beech-lined path in the forest, and we enjoy the winter light playing on the leafless branches and tree trunks...

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March 1, 20258 Comments

Raging Waves

Even during storms, the waves on the North Sea coast of Denmark may reach a modest height, but the current is strong and the waves break wildly on the gently sloping sandy beach with beautiful foaming crests. An impressive spectacle, as the waves follow each other in rapid succession...

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February 26, 20258 Comments

Stormy Seas

Even during storms, the waves on the North Sea coast of Denmark may reach a modest height, but the current is strong and the waves break on the sandy beach with wild foaming crests. An impressive spectacle, as the waves follow each other in rapid succession.

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February 20, 20258 Comments

Guidance

The day after the storm, the sea is calm, the beach empty: for kilometers we don't meet a soul. The waterline guides us on our walk, showing us the way in the emptiness . . .

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February 18, 20256 Comments

Confrontation

On a stormy day, it is wonderful to take a walk on the beach, like here on the beach of Schiermonnikoog, one of the Dutch Wadden islands...

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February 16, 20258 Comments

In The Unspecified City

Published today in The Ekphrastic Review, a collaboration with Laura Ann Reed based on -a little bit color adjusted version of- my artwork 'The Yellow Umbrella'.

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February 14, 20256 Comments

Rainbow In The Clouds

I made the (originally black and white) photo for this artwork in the bird sanctuary Agger Tange near the town of Agger on the north-west coast of Jutland, Denmark.

The color was added using digital painting tools. The objective is to explore different atmospheres, only by adding abstract colored areas.

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February 12, 20256 Comments

Rain Shower In Evening Light

The photo that I used to create this artwork is made with an Eastman Kodak No. 2 Folding Cartridge Hawk-Eye Model B camera, manufactured more than 90 years ago, between the years 1926 and 1934.

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February 8, 202510 Comments

Green Fields At Dawn

The photo that I used to create this artwork is made with an Eastman Kodak No. 2 Folding Cartridge Hawk-Eye Model B camera, manufactured more than 90 years ago, between the years 1926 and 1934.

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February 6, 20258 Comments

Whisper Of Eternity

A quiet afternoon in early spring, silence lies like a blanket over the marshes. The wind whispers softly in the reeds, telling stories from around the world and of all times.

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January 31, 20256 Comments

Birth Of A Summer Breeze

After a crisp summer night, the first rays of sunlight hit the damp fields. A light haze rises and disappears to the horizon, carried by an emerging summer breeze....

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January 29, 20256 Comments

Birth Of Spring

It's a warm winter day, after a few sunny days the fields are gently turning green. A walk early in the morning, the rising sun just rising above the hills. A veil of mist rises from the cold lake, drifting across the fields with a gentle breeze.

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January 28, 20254 Comments

Early Morning In Spring

Early on a beautiful spring morning I wandered through the fields along the bay Krik Vig, part of the Limfjord. Except for the rustling of the wind and a few birds, it's quiet…

The humid morning air and a fresh sea breeze blend the colors and scents of a beautiful new day.

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January 24, 20256 Comments

Lost (2)

A gray, foggy day. A day like so many, where you only see vague outlines of the path you are walking. The silence and lack of sight are oppressive at first. Until you regain peace and confidence, and let the trees guide you.

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January 17, 20259 Comments

Floating On Frozen Silence

It's early in the morning. It has been snowing all night, there is no one else in the forest. Carefully you take a step into the fresh snow….

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January 8, 20256 Comments

Winter Sunset (10)

The fields are covered with a thin layer of snow. The world waits in stillness for the night to come.

It was so quiet that afternoon, just before sunset... No wind, no birds, no cars... Nothing.
As if the world had been completely abandoned.

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January 7, 20258 Comments

The Dawn Of This Day

Even in the darkest forest, the light will find its way to the ground....

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January 6, 20256 Comments

A Winter Morning

A winter day awakens, the colors growing brighter, more intense, as I slip out of a dream...

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January 5, 202510 Comments

Carried By The Winds

It is a beautiful, sunny and windy winter day when we climb the high dunes on the coast of the North Sea. Reaching the top of a dune, we sit down, in the sun and a bit sheltered from the wind. The horizon is barely visible because of a haze of fine drops of seawater. Even the wind tastes salty...

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January 4, 20256 Comments

A Frisky Flirt

The part of Denmark where we live is known for the beautiful Nordic light. The sunsets over the North Sea and the fjords and lakes in autumn and winter are magical, at least: if there is not too much cloud cover. When I made the photo for this artwork, the conditions were perfect: a humid atmosphere and veil clouds.

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January 1, 20258 Comments

Into A New Day (2)

A cold and stormy winter morning on the beach of the North Sea near Agger, North West Denmark. Seagulls hover on the wind, waiting for the sea to bring them something to eat. Diving down, sometimes landing on the water, and not always successful in catching something edible...

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December 31, 20248 Comments

Winter Dream

Winter morning, the smell of a new day. I stroll along the path between sleeping and waking, I don't want to let go of my dream yet. A cold breeze through my hair, the sunlight touches my face...

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December 30, 20246 Comments

Suixtinction

Sometimes I want to scratch and bite people (figuratively speaking, of course ;), to wake them up a bit about the predicament in which the earth and nature find themselves. And thus a predicament in which many millions of people already find themselves today. Drought, hunger, lack of drinking water, almost unbearable heat, huge amounts of rain, rising sea level, and so on and so on...

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December 29, 20246 Comments

Towards A New Day

At the end of a beautiful sunny day, there are often some clouds over the sea. Does that make the sunset less beautiful? Often it doesn't, or it even makes it more beautiful. The clouds make the colors even more intense.

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December 27, 20245 Comments

Nordic Sunset (1)

It is very cold, the sky is clear and the meadows are frozen. The ideal conditions under which a Nordic sunset shows itself in all its splendor.

The light along the long coastlines of Nordic countries is special: clean air, bright sunshine interspersed with wind-driven clouds and rugged coastline. This light has inspired many artists, especially impressionists from more southern European countries loved to come to the Danish and Norwegian coasts.

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December 15, 20248 Comments

Carry Away My Sorrows

I love Fado music and, more in general, Portuguese folk music.

One of the most beautiful Portuguese songs for me is Meu Alentejo sung by Dulce Pontes.
But even without knowing a translation of the lyrics (and I don't speak a word of Portuguese), this song really touched me the first time I heard it. And it still does...

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December 14, 202410 Comments

Earth Cries

" What if we stopped waiting for disaster to strike, creating a global safety net to protect those hit hardest?

During COP29, we asked our community: What if everyone gave just 1% of their income to accelerate climate action? An incredible 88% said they would. "

Yeah, sure...

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December 13, 20246 Comments

Unfinished Dream

Early morning light
Patches of an unfinished dream
floats towards eternity

It is quiet in the forest, this morning. The sun is just rising above the horizon, its fragile rays gently touching the trunks of the trees still damp from the cold night.

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December 12, 20246 Comments

The Yellow Umbrella

A dark evening in a city where it is raining briskly. The street is almost deserted, shopkeepers have just turned out the lights and closed their stores. Two people are walking down the street talking and laughing under a yellow umbrella. I feel a strange desire to know what the two are laughing about....

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December 11, 20248 Comments

Dream Of A Disintegrated City

When Laura Ann Reed, a friend and poet from the US, sent me a new poem she had written, her words spoke to me so strongly that I immediately had a vision that for me matched her words. Moreover, I also immediately knew which two 10-year-old photos I had to put together to make the image I had in mind.

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December 10, 20248 Comments

A Lonely Morning

Fresh snow, as far as the eye can see. The forest looks spacious, light, and larger than usual. It is quiet, and the world feels deserted. Only the muffled crunch of our footsteps in the fresh snow.

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December 9, 20246 Comments

Unfinished Dreams (3)

Have you ever tried to follow the pieces of an unfinished dream as it drifts away when you wake up ?

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December 8, 20248 Comments

Hidden Summer Dreams

Soft waving reeds in a chilly breeze. The ripples on the icy water make it hard to see anything below the surface. An ideal hiding place for dreams…

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December 7, 20246 Comments

Autumn Sunset (8)

The sun has set, the water of the fjord rapidly takes on the cold color of the night. Thin cloud veils seem to swallow up the colors of the sunset, until it's dark.

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December 6, 20248 Comments

An Autumn Evening

During a long walk in a dark and grey forest, the sun briefly but brightly breaks through the cloud cover just before sunset and illuminates the forest in fairy-tale autumn colors, as only the setting autumn sun can do. 

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December 5, 20246 Comments

Sparkling Snow

An unexpected snowstorm blinds us
Even as we squint into the sunlight
Blinded, shivering, caught in the brightness
Turning away from its fierce glare
The burning, live-giving light
The soft, chilling snow
Flirting, sparkling, fluttering
...

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December 4, 20246 Comments

Song Of The Forest

After many days of rain, the late afternoon sun shines almost horizontally through the damp forest. It is quiet, except for a soft rustling, a song of the last leaves of the trees…

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December 2, 20246 Comments

Autumn Morning

On a beautiful morning I wandered through the fields along the bay Krik Vig, part of the Limfjord. Except for the rustling of the wind and a single bird, it's quiet…

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December 1, 20248 Comments

Autumn Leaves (4)

A more impressionistic transformation of the artwork Autumn Leaves, and that one is based on a photo that I made of the forest floor in the windy northwest corner of our garden, with a great variety in trees with leaves in all kind of shapes and colors.

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November 27, 20246 Comments

Abandoned Forest

The morning light and the silence in the deserted forest, create a special atmosphere. It gives space to let your thoughts run free.

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November 25, 20246 Comments

Valley Of Dreams (2)

An artwork that I made on the occasion of the exhibition 'El Duende' in 2017. I made two series of photos in the mountains near Bellano, Italy. When making those series, the theme of the exhibition inspired me. I went looking for the spirit of mountains and valleys.

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November 23, 20246 Comments

Scent Of A Winter Morning

It's early in the morning. The first sunlight touches the moss between the trees. And as if the forest had been waiting for it, immediately the most wonderful scents rise up and mingle with the nightly smell of thawing leaves and wood.

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November 21, 20244 Comments

Where The Green Ants Dream (2)

Yesterday the first version of this artwork, it went wrong again with the ability to comment, so grab your chance at this new, digitally transformed version 😉

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November 20, 2024No Comments

Where The Green Ants Dream

"You white men are lost. You don't understand the land. Too many silly questions.
Your presence on this earth will come to an end.

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November 6, 20245 Comments

Dark Times

We are witnessing the beginning of a pitch-black period. 

For all those who care about nature, about the oppressed, about justice and democracy. 

And for those who care about the rights of women, of those with a different opinion, sexual orientation, of those with a colored skin...

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November 6, 202410 Comments

Colorful Morning

It is the first week of November, more than 3 weeks before that terrible day. And the first advertisements are already appearing.

So it is high time that I post again the works from the series Colorful Days....

If, with this mini series, I manage to persuade just 1 person to buy less this year, or maybe even not to participate in the madness called Black Friday, the earth will have made a small victory....

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November 4, 20246 Comments

Rooted

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.

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November 2, 20248 Comments

Money

We need a lot of money to fight the crises the earth is in. So why is so little happening to combat all these crises ? Are we short of money, then ? Well no, not really. But the rich countries prefer to spend it on unhealthy food, luxury goods, weapons, even bigger houses, subsidies for disastrous crises increasing activities.

A weekend read...

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October 31, 20248 Comments

Healing Forest (2)

Lying on our backs in the woods, we observe nature's symphony flying above, and the gentle dance of light amid the trees—a phenomenon known as Shinrin-Yoku, or "forest bathing," celebrated in Japan. It refreshes the body and mind, enhancing health and well-being.

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October 30, 20242 Comments

Resurgence (2)

Sickness, loss, violence, life-threatening circumstances, dying.... There are many moments in a person's life when she/he is held captive in icy darkness.

But whatever you believe in, ultimately there is the embrace and oneness with the light of your origin.

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October 29, 202414 Comments

Birds Cry

I feel it is my mission to make people aware of the beauty and at the same time fragility of nature. At the same time, this sometimes feels like hypocrisy because I am part of the society that causes the destruction of the earth's habitability. Even though I do my best to live simply and keep my ecological footprint considerably smaller than "the use" of 1 earth...

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October 27, 20246 Comments

Drowned Fields

The days of cold autumn rain. Looking out over drowned fields, ten years ago in the province of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Autumn is a beautiful time, a time when nature tenderly covers the fallen seeds with brown and vibrant colored leaves. Food for the new growing season...

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October 26, 202411 Comments

Saving Species

Last Monday, COP16 in Colombia started, the United Nations international summit on biodiversity.

An important summit?

I'll take you through a few considerations.

A weekend read...

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October 25, 20248 Comments

Lost (3)

A gray, foggy autumn day. A day like so many, where you only see vague outlines of the path you are walking. The silence and lack of sight are oppressive at first...

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October 24, 20246 Comments

Autumn Leaves (2)

After a beautiful late summer week mid September, it's autumn now. The temperature has dropped considerably but it is still very pleasant to work outside. The past week even 'warm' for this time of the year.

Many trees are now mostly bare, but the maple is still holding its coloring leaves firmly. And the leaves of the hawthorn look like they could stay on the trees for many weeks to come.

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October 22, 20244 Comments

Kissing The Clouds

A beautiful autumn morning. I go outside to walk the dog. We see the horizon 'releasing' the sun, its warm light kisses the clouds above the fields.

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October 16, 20244 Comments

Cat’s Eye

What is an earthly mushroom on the scale of a galaxy? Less than a speck of dust on your windowsill... Not even the size of an atom in the infinite expanse of the oceans.

Yet they can be merged...

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October 15, 20248 Comments

Galaxy

What is an earthly mushroom on the scale of a galaxy? Less than a speck of dust on your windowsill... Not even the size of an atom in the infinite expanse of the oceans.

Yet they can be merged...

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October 14, 20244 Comments

Silken Ripples II

The first rays of the sun reflect in the vapors rising from the valley after a heavy rain shower.
The morning breeze touches it, like the ripples of a silk scarf draped over the mountain tops…

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October 13, 20244 Comments

Blinded

Do you know those moments? A setting sun, just above the trees, in a completely clear sky. In the foreground a lake that reflects all the light... A lot of light...

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October 12, 20244 Comments

Still Crying…

With COP29 (the "29th UN Climate Change conference") approaching, we are being fed scientific publications that give us the latest updates. Although these are not happy reads, it is important reading for me. It inspires me to make new work. And motivate me to live the way I live. Above that, it inspires and motivates me to tell you about it.

And why this post, why am I telling you this? Why do I hope you will read the whole thing?
Because it's important that you know the condition of your home. It is your only home, our only home.

A weekend read...

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October 11, 20244 Comments

Autumn Leaves

After a beautiful late summer week mid September, it's autumn now. The temperature has dropped considerably, rain showers are frequent, although not very heavy.

Many leaves have been blown off the trees and bushes the past two weeks, we are collecting those fallen leaves from the paths and grass almost daily and putting them in a large mesh basket so they can compost in the coming months.

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October 10, 20246 Comments

Shattered Evening

When are we most fascinated by a sunset? For many people, it is when the sky is colored in saturated, vibrant colors….

Realizing this, I set to work on another sunset photograph….

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October 9, 20246 Comments

Forests Cry

Screaming sounds of power
saws numb your thoughts
Ears bleed, hearts tear
Forests cry
The sun colors the evening in
the hues of the choking smoke
that kills tree after tree
How high may become
the price the future
will have to pay?

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October 8, 20244 Comments

Sunset Without Limits

When are we most fascinated by a sunset? For many people, it is when the sky is colored in a beautiful palet of saturated, vibrant colors….

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October 7, 20246 Comments

Autumn Sunset (1)

Autumn is generally a gray, rainy season in the northern part of Jutland. More gray than winter, at least if there is a real winter. But for that very reason, the overcast skies and brisk winds that can suddenly give the sun plenty of room, it is also the season of beautiful, intense sunsets...

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October 6, 20247 Comments

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 that lives on it without becoming exhausted.

Only when all those dreams come to life in common sense and people take action to live modestly as a part of nature, the earth can recover through our care and compassion for all that lives, giving us what we need.

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October 3, 20243 Comments

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
scorch tree after tree
How high may become
the price the future
will have to pay?

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October 2, 20246 Comments

Echos Of A Dream

It is early in the morning, but it is already light when I wake up. The sunlight filtered through the curtains quickly dissipates the last images of my dream and emerging thoughts disrupt the story...

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September 30, 20244 Comments

Golden Silence

It's early on a beautiful autumn evening, no wind and a bright blue sky. There is silence in the forest. A palpable silence, soft and thick like a wool blanket.
Yellow leaves gently fall to the ground. The sunlight wraps them in gold...

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September 26, 20248 Comments

Slow Dance

On a not too windy day, waves are very calming to me.

They play a game with the sun and the sky, reflecting and chasing each other's colors that in an endless variety continuously present a breathtaking spectacle.

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September 24, 20244 Comments

Nature’s Secrets 12

When I walk through our garden, I love to touch the trees and plants I walk by. It creates a connection with the nature around you when you not only sniff scents and enjoy the colors, but when in addition you feel the softness of leaves, the hardness of bark, the fragility of flowers….

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September 22, 20248 Comments

Sources Of Inspiration

I am happy and proud to share with you three recent collaborations with Kari Trenten: Sources Of Inspiration.

Besides my artwork, I added a few lines of Kari's blog. Click the title to read the complete blog.

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September 21, 20244 Comments

Visitors ?

We are always happy when they come to check on us, when they take a bite to eat with us from all the goodies there are in the garden.

So we try to disturb them as little as possible, watching them silently and motionless as they pass our garden...

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September 20, 20246 Comments

Nature’s Secrets 11

Harvest. Not by far over yet. Pears, apples, pumpkins, zucchini’s, the last few blueberries, wild strawberries...

And, of course, it is also the time to harvest seeds: Marigold, Poppy, Cornflower, Perpetual Kale, …

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September 19, 20242 Comments

No More Social Media

Tomorrow, Friday, I will post the following text on LinkedIn.

Some of you have no doubt noticed over the past six months that the LinkedIn jacket no longer fits me....

More than 15 years on LinkedIn, the last 5 of which have been exclusively, the only social media I use... Now I have decided to close my account as of next October 1.

I have always found LinkedIn a pleasant environment and a good medium to display my art, to tell something about my philosophy of life and lifestyle, and air my opinion regarding the state of the earth.

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September 18, 20242 Comments

Nature’s Secrets 10

When we are at the beach, we spend a very large part of the time with our gaze focused on the ground. A few square meters around our feet are continuously scanned as we slowly walk forward. Periodically we stop, and let our gaze wander to the dunes, the sea, or the sky….

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September 16, 20242 Comments

Nature’s Secrets 09

Harvest. Not by far over yet. Pears, apples, pumpkins, zucchini’s...

And every time when I walk into the garden, I notice a 1, 2, 3, ... details that I have never seen before. Full of enthusiasm I then call out to Anuscka: come and see what I found here !

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