Tag: Landschap

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Storm is coming

© Jack Kruf (2008) Storm is coming [digital]. Breda: Private collection

Storm is coming over Elba. The storm clouds hunt the ferry down and will soon role over it. It was between the Italian mainland and this mystic island, by the way on a beautiful summer’s day. It is one of those moments in life when seeking shelter and safety for this storm and rain was really urgent and factually last second. It was short but fierce.

It is always on this evening – the 31st of January – when I remember my father’s stories on the evening when the raging storm in 1953 arrived in our hometown, Halsteren. It brought over miles of land the sea (5 meter high) only a few hundreds of meters from his house, taking peoples houses, farms and life’s. He would ride out that night to help and rescue.

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Beach perspective

© Jack Kruf (2019) Beach perspective [fine art print]. Breda: Private collection.

It is not often when a beach is truly a beach. Here it shows itself in all it has. I like the colour palette and perspective, with in the far distance one of the main sea cargo routes of the world towards the harbour of Antwerp.

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The River

© Jack Kruf (2019) The River [fine art print]. Breda: Private collection.

The great rivers cross the lowlands of The Netherlands, connecting the hills and mountains in the east and south with the North Sea in the west. The immense landscape of water is impressive. It is mainly a palette of grey and blue.

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Beach and Dune

©Jack Kruf (2021) Beach and Dune [fine art print]. Breda: Private collection

This is the place where beach and dune are meeting the wind and create these patterns in the sand in a variety of pastel tints. Taken near Cadzand, Zeeland, The Netherlands.

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Summer in Tuscany

© Jack Kruf (2005) Summer in Tuscany [fine art print]. Breda: Private collection.

On this final wet and windy day of 2022 I remember the summer we spent in Tuscany in 2003. It was harvest time. The landscape between Florence and Siena showed its DNA. What a light, what a collection of gold, orange and yellow.