Morning Light

Morgenlys – 1984

Title Translation: Morning Light
Medium: Watercolour on paper
Signature: Signed "Sigurd Bergmann"

In Morgenlys, Sigurd Bergmann captures the tender, golden hush of a new day awakening. The painting is bathed in soft, melting hues—warm ochres, blushing reds, and cool blues—all reflected in a calm mirror of water that bisects the composition horizontally. The brushwork is delicate, almost dreamlike, suggesting the ephemeral nature of morning light as it gently touches both sky and land.

There’s a poetic duality at play here: the above and the below, the real and the reflected, the solid and the fluid. As if the world itself is still deciding whether to rise fully from sleep or linger in quiet stillness. A lone bird drifts across the pale sky, emphasizing the serenity and scale of the scene.

This is a piece that doesn’t shout—it whispers. And in doing so, it offers the viewer a space to breathe, reflect, and begin again.