The light at dawn colour the land softly and together with the play of shadows the day gradually emerges. A slow movement and a silent moment.

Kristin is drawn to untouched nature, often using abstract landscapes to express moods and emotions, it is not site specific landscapes but more the essence of an experience expressed via a landscape. Kristin lives  at the West coast of Norway and this closeness to the sea and fjords are present in her artworks.

This artwork is made with Unison Colour soft pastels on 300 g Arches cold pressed paper and has a fine layer of Sennelier fixative as finishing a coat. It has a delicate surface and needs the protection of glass. It ships flat in a box.


Shades of Dawn 1

Pastels on 300 g paper. This artwork needs the protection of glass.
Colourful Caprice 5 belongs to the Colour Poetry series.  The colours flow into each other impulsively and seemingly on a whim creating a playful mood with evocative shapes. 

Colourful Caprice 5

Places of Fagrance; The smell of the salty air carried from the sea by the wind, the newly cut green grass, the clematis flowers bathing in the sun or the dusty hay that dries in the warm summer afternoon. It’s all examples of smells that carries memories of places and moments that stays with you, and the smell will easily take you back. 
This motive has been dissolved and translated into colour to express the experience of fragrance rather that the recognizable place. 

This artwork is made with Unison Colour soft pastels on 300 g Arches cold pressed paper and has a fine layer of Sennelier fixative as finishing a coat. It has a delicate surface and needs the protection of glass. It ships flat in a box.





Fragrance

Pastels on 300 g cotton paper with 4 deckle edges. Framed with art glass and oak. Ships in a wooden crate or can be picked up from my studio.

Fabulations of October in March. Inspired by frosty mornings and a warm and earthy autumn palette. This is time travelling by art, as I’m daydreaming of October evenings filled with hours of slowly deepening blues. Twilight in October has this clear blue sky with a hint of frost in the air. 
Viewed through a filter of time as it’s 6 months apart, there’s even a promise of fabulous views if you climb up to higher grounds. Enough time has passed that it’s easier to express the lingering dream more than the reality making it possible to create a colour poem expressing the experience and emotions through colour and shapes. 
Ships in a wooden crate or can be picked up from my studio.

Colour Poetry. October Fable

Energetic and refreshing, this is a real colour party. The vibrant colour combinations are energising and vitalising and give the perfect energy boost for a busy day.
Kristin is drawn to untouched nature. She uses abstract forms inspired by  landscapes and plants as elements in her work. The abstraction brings forth the essence and express spesific moods and emotions connected  of the experience.
This artwork is made with Unison Colour soft pastels on 300 g Arches cold pressed paper and has a fine layer of Sennelier fixative as finishing a coat. It has a delicate surface and needs the protection of glass. It ships flat in a box.


A bunch of flowers

The light is special when the land is covered in snow. In the middle of the dark season everything changes when the snow arrives and blanket every surface, the world lightens up and it’s like the earth itself becomes the source of light. The landscape is familiar but feels new and pristine, the fragrance is gone and all is  filled with stillness. Like a pause and a beautiful interlude.

Kristin is drawn to untouched nature, often using abstract landscapes to express moods and emotions, it is not site specific landscapes but more the essence of an experience expressed via a landscape. Kristin lives  at the West coast of Norway and this closeness to the sea and fjords are always present in her artworks.

I  base my artwork on memories of places and experiences that is reinterpreted and reinvented through colour. The abstraction brings forth the essence and express specific moods and emotions of the experience, elevating the subject from place to atmosphere. I create my artworks in soft pastel that allows for exceptional degrees of intensity and fluidity and opens up for lyrical interpretations and make my compositions vibrate with character as it comes to life. It has a delicate surface and needs the protection of glass.

Tales of Winter

Pastels on 300 g cotton paper with 4 deckle edges. Framed with art glass and oak.  Ships in a wooden crate or can be picked up in my studio.

This September Song is created in February when dreaming of September. This colour poem bear the remembrance of late summer evenings when the warm air is ripe with the fragrances of blossoms and berries, expressing the essence of the experience through colour and shapes. ​This is time travelling through art, daydreaming and reliving these special evenings when summer lingers on and is coloured with ripe fruits and dried seed pods. The cool breeze of autum carries promises of changes and are slowly  turning us inward and calm our pace as the darkness thickens around us. 


Colour Poetry. September Song

A brief moment of soft shadows and a delicate light that colours the land in subtle tones and changes the mood in phenomenal ways.  This work is de as a part of the Dark Skies celebration.

This artwork is created in soft pastels on 300 g cotton paper with 4 deckle edges. It has a delicate surface and needs the protection of glass.

I'm drawn to untouched nature, and like to use abstract landscapes to express moods and emotions, it is not site specific landscapes but more the essence of an experience expressed via a landscape. I live at the West coast of Norway and this closeness to the sea and fjords are often present in my artworks.

I prefer to work in pastels. Working with colored dust reminds me that the traces left behind should be soft and impermanent, something we seem to completely forget these days. We are here together for a little while, just visitors. The traces we leave behind must be of a different nature than what destroys the nature around us. I like to keep this quote from the Anglican Church's Liturgical Handbook in mind "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust" It's a humble reminder that gives me a perspective and presence of mind I appreciate.


November

I am standing alone on the shore, the landscape before me looks empty at first, the strong feeling of solitude grips me but in my mind I ‘am already far away.

This lyrical landscape express a longing to follow the wind, as it riples over the waters suface, along the fjord towards new shores,  in the process it’s chasing up mountansides to kiss new expectant faces. 


Pastels on cold dressed cotton paper with deckle edges.  This artwork needs the protection of glass. It ships flat in a box. 

Follow the Wind 7

Organic forms and colours inspired by warm earth and wispering winds.

Creating an abstract landscape on paper is much like telling a story through steep cliffs and rushing water. The tale of majestic mountains and friendly slopes are told by dry pigments rubbed into cotton paper until the whole surface is filled with colourful pigments that‘s creating  images of recognisable shapes and places remembered. But its more than that, its a tale of life itself; a soulscape, a refelction on human emotions.

I like to reimagine a specific place or a recogniseable landscape and to translate it into a lyrical landscape. Abstraction gives an infinite amount of freedom and possibilities both for the creator and the viewer. It’s almost limitless but the challenge is to create something uniquely interesting. Abastraction allows me to incorporate the whole experience from the emotions brought about by the scent of wam earth at sunlit hills to the sounds of running water and the wispers of the wind. The landscape is dissolved and translated it into a colour mood. 

This artwork is made with handmade soft pastels on 300 g cotton paper and has a fine layer of fixative as finishing coat. It has a delicate surface and needs the protection of glass. It ships flat in a box.

River

A peaceful winter mood capturing the cool light, the stillness of the landscape and soft transitions that is so beautiful this time of the year. A brief moment of pale winter light that colours the land in subtle tones and changes the mood in phenomenal ways.  

I’m drawn to untouched nature, often using abstract landscapes to express moods and emotions, it is not site specific landscapes but more the essence of an experience expressed via a landscape. I live and work at the West coast of Norway and there is often traces of these inspiring landscapes surrounding me in my artwork.
This is a pastell drawing on cotton paper, it needs the protection of glass. It ships flat packed in a box.

Pale winter light

Colourfull Caprice belongs in the Colour Poetry series.  The colours flow into each other impulsively and seemingly on a whim, creating a joyful mood with evocative shapes and playful lines.
This artwork is created in soft pastels on 300 g cotton paper with 4 deckle edges. It has a delicate surface and needs the protection of glass.
I prefer to work in pastels. Working with coloured dust reminds me that the traces left behind should be soft and impermanent, something we seem to completely forget these days. We are here together for a little while, just visitors. The traces we leave behind must be of a different nature than what destroys the nature around us. I like to keep this quote from the Anglican Church's Liturgical Handbook in mind "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust" It's a humble reminder that gives me a perspective and presence of mind I appreciate. Sold unframed, it ships flat packed in a box.

Colourful caprice 5

Organic forms and colours inspired by warm earth and dying leaves, babbling brooks and wispering winds.

Creating an abstract landscape on paper is much like telling a story through steep cliffs and rushing water. The tale of majestic mountains and friendly slopes are told by dry pigments rubbed into cotton paper until the whole surface is filled with colourful pigments that‘s creating  images of recognisable shapes and places remembered. But its more than that, its a tale of life itself; a soulscape, a refelction on human emotions.

I like to reimagine a specific place or a recogniseable landscape and to translate it into a lyrical landscape. Abstraction gives an infinite amount of freedom and possibilities both for the creator and the viewer. It’s almost limitless but the challenge is to create something uniquely interesting. Abastraction allows me to incorporate the whole experience from the emotions brought about by the scent of wam earth at sunlit hills to the sounds of running water and the wispers of the wind. The landscape is dissolved and translated it into a colour mood. 

This artwork is made with soft pastels on 300 g cotton paper and has a fine layer of fixative as finishing coat. It has a delicate surface and needs the protection of glass. It ships flat in a box.

Shades of earth 2

Inspired by the beauty of nature at twilight, when all has quiet down and are painted in blue light. The trees provide shelter and embrace this peaceful path through the glenn. 
This artwork is created in soft pastels on 300 g cotton paper with 4 deckle edges. It has a delicate surface and needs the protection of glass, its is sold unframed. It ships flat packed in a box, or it can be picked up in my studio. 
I'm drawn to untouched nature, and like to use abstract landscapes to express moods and emotions, it is not site specific landscapes but more the essence of an experience expressed via a landscape. 
I prefer to work in pastels. Working with colored dust reminds me that the traces left behind should be soft and impermanent, something we seem to completely forget these days. We are here together for a little while, just visitors. The traces we leave behind must be of a different nature than what destroys the nature around us. I like to keep this quote from the Anglican Church's Liturgical Handbook in mind "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust" It's a humble reminder that gives me a perspective and presence of mind I appreciate.


A winter path

Places of Fagrance; The smell of the salty air carried from the sea by the wind, the newly cut green grass, the clematis flowers bathing in the sun or the dusty hay that dries in the warm summer afternoon. It’s all examples of smells that carries memories of places and moments that stays with you, and the smell will easily take you back. 

This motive has been dissolved and translated into colour to express the experience of fragrance rather that the recognisable place. 
this artwork is made with handmade soft pastels on 300 g cold pressed cotton paper with 4 deckle edges. it has a fine layer of fixative as a finishing coat.

Seaside fragrances 2

Pastels on 300 g cotton paper with 4 deckle edges. This artwork needs the protection of glass. Illustration photo showing the artwork  framed floating.
Inspired by the shapes and colours of flowers and plants, and the cycle of life.

Floral

Inspired by the bright life affirming sun and the fabolous yellow lichen that covers the rocks along the coast making them light up and shine as the sun. Spring is moving on fast feet over the land, visiting every nook and cranny leaving fresh colours as its footprints transforming the land and colouring it so beautifully and the best of all bringing it all back to life again. The rocky shores are becoming friendly places for new life to start and for curious children to play. Its a fabulous time of the year - all is fresh and new and yet forever old.
I base my artworks on memories of places that has a significant impact on my life and that vividly lingers with me. I am fascinated by the ancient soul of these old landscapes surrounding me and the sustainable life they contain when left alone. Here I feel the connection to my foremothers as we enjoy the same view and sincerely hope that future generations will get the same opportunity.   I want to convey to the viewer my respect, wonder, love and joy for untouched nature through coloured dust on paper, and in this way remind us of our impermanence and that we are fortunate guests. 
Handmade soft pastels on 300 g cotton paper.

Tide pools and yellow shores

Inspired by Fagrance; The scent of heather and green moss carried by  clean mountain air. The tang of wetness from babbling brooks and vapour from waterfalls. The deep and aromas of wam earth at the sunlit slope. These are examples of fragrances that carries memories of places and moments that stays with you, they are like capsules that spring to life every time you recognise it and transports you back. 

The landscape has been dissolved and translated into colour to express the experience of fragrance rather that a recognisable place. Inspired by the scents of swaying grass dancing in warm pinks at the egde of shallow waters.

I use handmade soft pastels on 300 g cotton paper and finish it off with a thin layer of fixative. The surface is delicate and silky matte and needs the protection of glass. It ship flat packed in a box.

Fragrance 3

A blue still life inspired by a long gone blue hand blown glass pitcher bought on a trip to Paris years back. The pure pigments of the handmade soft pastels express the translucency of the glass just beautifully and leave a wonderful matt satin smooth surface.
 
This artwork needs the protection of glass, it’s sold unframed but will look beautiful framed floating.
Size: 76 x 56 cm. Handmade Unison Colour soft pastels on 300 g Arches cold pressed cotton paper with 4 deckle edges. Finished with a thin layer of fixative. It ships flat packed in a box. 

Blue Vessel

Handmade pastels on 300 cotton paper with deckle edges. This artwork needs the protection of glass. 

This piece started off as a big red statement and I thought I had made a mistake. But as I kept on it, it started to evolve and became something new and uniqe. Now, as the surprice has died down, I’m really happy with the result.
Do you see the cat?

Volatile Violets. Chasing the Wind

This series is based on the smell of landscapes, plants and nature that trigger memories. Inspired by warm earth in spring, new seedlings and dry seedpods. 

About this series: The memories on which the works are based are often fleeting and only live as small glimpses or flash backs. Salty sea, seaweed, hot summer hay, straw and flowers, fresh wind sweeping up the mountainside, forest floor and warm earth are smells that linger and can take me back years. These flashes are used as a foundation for pastel drawings where the pigment dust is rubbed into cold-pressed cotton paper. The color moods are built layer upon layer and the olfactory sensations emerge as a visible soul-landscape on the surface of the paper.

This arwork is made with handmade soft pastels and has a delikate matte surface, it needs the protection of glass.It chips flat packed in a box.

Shades of earth 4

Creating an abstract landscape on the paper is much like telling a story through the steep cliffs and babbling brooks. The tale of majestic mountains and friendly slopes are told by dry pigments moved over the paper with my hands. Slowly the paper are filled with recognisable shapes and places remembered. 
This artwork has a delicate surface and needs the protection of glass. Unison colour soft påastels on 300 g Arches cold pressed paper whit a thin layer of Sennelier fixative as a finishing coat.

Tales of a scenery 1

Chase the wind as it hasten over the heath and down the moors, between plants and rocks. These rambling reds are doing just that, full of energy and joy. Happy for autumn, for bright reds and deep shadows.

This artwork is made with Unison Colour soft pastels on 300 g Arches cold pressed paper and has a fine layer of Sennelier fixative as finishing a coat. It has a delicate surface and needs the protection of glass. It ships flat in a box.

Rambling Reds 2. Chasing the wind

Inspired by organic shapes and colours found in landscapes with warm earth and dying leaves, babbling brooks and whispering winds.
Creating an abstract landscape on paper is much like telling a story through steep cliffs and rushing water. The tale of majestic mountains and friendly slopes are told by dry pigments rubbed into cotton paper until the whole surface is filled with colourful pigments that‘s creating  images of recognisable shapes and places remembered. But its more than that, its a tale of life itself; a soulscape, a refelction on human emotions.

Is it possible to feel calm in the middle of a storm? It can be exiting to feel the powers at play and existential to experience the drama and intensity, but also humbling, life affirming and rejuvenating. I find a kind of inner calmness and tranquility, the more intense the weather the stronger the joy of living.

This artwork is created with handmade soft pastels on 300 g cotton paper and has a fine layer of fixative as a finishing coat.

Storm

Handmade pastels on 300 g cotton paper with deckle edges. This artwork needs the protection of glass. 

Colourful Caprice 6 belongs in the Colour Poetry series.  The colours flow into each other impulsively and seemingly on a whim creating a playful mood with evocative shapes.

Colourful Caprice 6

The light at dawn colour the land softly and together with the play of shadows the day gradually emerges. A slow movement and a silent moment.
Kristin is drawn to untouched nature, often using abstract landscapes to express moods and emotions, it is not site specific landscapes but more the essence of an experience expressed via a landscape. Kristin lives  at the West coast of Norway and this closeness to the sea and fjords are present in her artworks.
This artwork is made with Unison Colour soft pastels on 300 g Arches cold pressed paper and has a fine layer of Sennelier fixative as finishing a coat. It has a delicate surface and needs the protection of glass. It ships flat in a box.

Shades of Dawn 2

The light at dawn colour the land softly and together with the play of shadows the day gradually emerges. A slow movement and a silent moment.
Kristin is drawn to untouched nature, often using abstract landscapes to express moods and emotions, it is not site specific landscapes but more the essence of an experience expressed via a landscape. Kristin lives  at the West coast of Norway and this closeness to the sea and fjords are present in her artworks.
This artwork is made with Unison Colour soft pastels on 300 g Arches cold pressed paper and has a fine layer of Sennelier fixative as finishing a coat. It has a delicate surface and needs the protection of glass. It ships flat in a box.


Shades of Dawn 3

A brief moment of soft shadows and a delicate light that colours the land in subtle tones and changes the mood in phenomenal ways.  This artwork is created in soft pastels on 300 g cotton paper with 4 deckle edges. It has a delicate surface and needs the protection of glass.

I'm drawn to untouched nature, and like to use abstract landscapes to express moods and emotions, it is not site specific landscapes but more the essence of an experience expressed via a landscape. I live at the West coast of Norway and this closeness to the sea and fjords are often present in my artworks.
I prefer to work in pastels. Working with colored dust reminds me that the traces left behind should be soft and impermanent, something we seem to completely forget these days. We are here together for a little while, just visitors. The traces we leave behind must be of a different nature than what destroys the nature around us. I like to keep this quote from the Anglican Church's Liturgical Handbook in mind "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust" It's a humble reminder that gives me a perspective and presence of mind I appreciate.

November. Moments 4

Handmade soft pastels on 300 g cotton paper with deckle edges. This artwork needs the protection of glass. It ships flat packed in a box.

Inbetween tree trunks an knarled roots, you find this lush green moss and the most delicate flowers that radiates as the sunlight silently filters thtough the branshes above.

Forest Tales

Creating an abstract landscape on the paper is much like telling a story through the steep cliffs and babbling brooks. The tale of majestic mountains and friendly slopes are told by dry pigments moved over the paper with my hands. Slowly the paper are filled with recognisable shapes and places remembered. 
Created with Unison Colour soft pastel on 300 g Arches cold presset paper with a fine later of Sennelier fixative as a finishing coat.

Tales of a scenery 2

Inspired by Fagrance; The scent of heather and green moss carried by  clean mountain air. The tang of wetness from babbling brooks and vapour from waterfalls. The deep and aromas of wam earth at the sunlit slope. These are examples of fragrances that carries memories of places and moments that stays with you, they are like capsules that spring to life every time you recognise it and transports you back. 
A lake embraced by rounded mountain slopes leading down to the waters edge. The wide warm sky is mirrored in the water and the air is coloured by crisp air and damp scents.

I use handmade soft pastels on 300 g cotton paper and finish it off with a thin layer of fixative. The surface is delicate and silky matte and needs the protection of glass. It ship flat packed in a box.

Fragrance 4

Pastels on 300 g cotton paper with deckle edges. This artwork needs the protection of glass.

Warm and energetic, this is a colourful symphony of reds in harmony with a breath of  light blues.

Vivid Infusion

A winter mood capturing the cool light, the stillness of the landscape and the soft transitions. A brief moment of pale winter light that envelops the land in subtle tones.  
Creating an abstract landscape on paper is much like telling a story through steep cliffs and rushing water. The tale of majestic mountains and friendly slopes are told by dry pigments rubbed into the cotton paper until  the whole surface is filled with colourful pigments that‘s creating  images of recognisable shapes and places remembered.

I’m drawn to untouched nature, often using abstract landscapes to express moods and emotions, it is not site specific landscapes but more the essence of an experience expressed via a landscape. I live and work at the West coast of Norway and there is often traces of these inspiering landscapes sourrounding me in my artwork. 
I create my artworks in soft pastels, the delicate surface nedds the protection of glass. It's sold unframed to make it easier to ship and to give you more choises. 

Winter Light

The air is heavy with the sent of seaweed and kelp and are refreshing whatever the weather. Deep turquoise greens creates this moody scenery with soft edges and delicate hues. The hazy wisps of clouds moves slowly along the mountain ridge and floats silently down towards the water. 
This artwork is created in soft pastels on 300 g cotton paper with 4 deckle edges. It has a delicate surface and needs the protection of glass.

I'm drawn to untouched nature, and like to use abstract landscapes to express moods and emotions, it is not site specific landscapes but more the essence of an experience expressed via a landscape. I live at the West coast of Norway and this closeness to the sea and fjords are often present in my artworks.
I prefer to work in pastels. Working with colored dust reminds me that the traces left behind should be soft and impermanent, something we seem to completely forget these days. We are here together for a little while, just visitors. The traces we leave behind must be of a different nature than what destroys the nature around us. I like to keep this quote from the Anglican Church's Liturgical Handbook in mind "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust" It's a humble reminder that gives me a perspective and presence of mind I appreciate.

Kristin Holm Dybvig

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