It is quiet in the forest. The dense foliage brings coolness in summer, the impressive trunks of old trees provide protection when the wind blows hard. Time for a walk on narrow paths, deeper and deeper into the forest. 
Part of my portfolio impressionistic and abstract realistic forestscapes.

The Narrow Path

For my digital artworks, I start with a photograph made by myself, which I edit in multiple process runs and in several layers by color manipulation and adding and editing multiple digital photographic textures and effects, until a surrealistic atmosphere is created that touches me.

The photograph I begin with has an impressionistic, abstract or abstract realistic style, which is the basis for all my work.

Digital artworks

When I imagine what the earth will look like in 100 years, the image that comes to mind most emphatically is one of an earth with sharply rising sea levels. The vastly reduced life that remains in the warmed and poisoned oceans will find shelter and food in the flooded mangrove forests and tropical and temperate coastal forests.

In this collection of new artworks I show you how I see the earth of, say, a few centuries from now. A fusion of the forests and the oceans, with hopefully in the distant future a rich ecosystem that has managed to adapt to the new circumstances.

Drowned Earth

People and their built and cultivated environment.

Lost Cities

When you walk deep into a forest, you’ll find them: secret and quiet places, where almost nobody ever comes.

Part of my portfolio impressionistic and abstract realistic forestscapes.

Secret Places

Standing in the face of infinity
We found what we fell short:
Emptiness and modesty

Abstract realistic, minimalist and impressionist seascape collection.

Infinite Sea

Evening Falls

Along the bank of the fjords and lakes in North Jutland, Denmark

Along The Bank

Abstract realistic and impressionistic fine art landscape photos, made in The Netherlands

Flat Lands

Stray Birds

Abstract realistic fine art landscape photos, made in Denmark

Wavy Fields

A view on flowers like you have never seen them before…

Floral Souls

The collection Colorful Days is an indictment of the greed for buying, the unbridled consumption that a large part of people in so-called "developed countries" practice.
Colorful Days calls on people not to make nature black by increasing the number of days like Black Friday, but to make nature colorful by consuming less and buying only what you really need, preferably second hand.
The artworks show exuberant, vibrant colors in a nature that already shows clear signs of the many black days that are already behind us.The colors tell us that it is not yet too late, but that quick and rigorous intervention in the capitalist system is inevitable.

Colorful Days

It is my conviction that after our death our spirit, our soul, travels to its origin somewhere in the universe. Once arrived, our energy is reunited with the energy from which everything around us once originated. 
In the project Nebulae I wanted to visualize that journey. This is how a series of photographic art came into being, made by transforming nine abstract realistic photographs of sunsets over the North Sea along the coast of the Thy region, North Jutland, Denmark.

Nebulae

Experiments with light, while using only the basic settings of digital and analog camera’s.

Quest For the Light

Abstract realistic fine art mountain scape photos, made in Italy

To the Top

A few pictures of me while I'm making my photos. The pictures were taken by my wife Anuscka.

At work

Jacob Berghoef's Art Collections