Quiet Evening

Stille kveld

Translation: Quiet Evening
Artist: Sigurd Bergmann
Year: 1998
Medium: Watercolour on textured paper

In Stille kveld, Sigurd Bergmann gives us a landscape hushed by the hush itself — a soft, ethereal atmosphere suspended between twilight and dream. The painting flows in gentle washes of rose, peach, and sage, as if the light is folding gently over the earth. The distant horizon dissolves into mist, while a single bird glides across the open stillness, anchoring the vast calm.

The lower right corner, shadowed in mossy greens and siennas, grounds the composition like a whisper of land watching the sun’s final exhale. This piece doesn’t shout, it breathes — inviting the viewer to pause, soften, and feel the weightlessness of silence.

Stille kveld is Bergmann at his most meditative: not just depicting nature, but entering into its rhythm. A poem in pigment.