Kristin Holm Dybvig

My work explores how landscapes shape identity, belonging, and emotional resonance. Rooted in personal experience and memory, my pastel paintings emerge from the shifting space between what is seen and what is felt — between inner and outer landscapes. Some works appear recognisably grounded in nature, while others dissolve into abstraction; together they form one continuous body of work, where boundaries between representation and intuition begin to blur.
At the heart of my practice lies a belief that landscape can hold reflection, that it can mirror something timeless and human. I am drawn to the quiet, unspoiled forms of nature — rock, hill, shoreline — ancient structures shaped by deep time and untouched by the immediacy of human presence. These motifs serve as anchors, connecting the fleeting moment to something enduring.
Colour is central to how I think and feel through my work. I approach it as both language and atmosphere — a way of translating emotion, memory, and light. My palettes often move toward the ethereal and dreamlike, evoking a sense of stillness, or the lingering trace of a place once known.
While many of my works are rooted in landscape, others are entirely abstract — intuitive explorations of colour, rhythm, a...

1993-1997 Diploma from Tobias School of Art. Sussex, England

Professional experience
2017- Visual Artist
1997-2016. Art therapist and Manager of the Special Education and Therapy program at the Waldorf school, Stavanger.
1997-2005. Color consultant and painter for DogH A/S Stavanger
1987-1993. Art Director. Bates advertising agency, Stavanger
1985-1987. Ad-assistant. Ottesen Bates advertising agency, Stavanger

Solo Exhibitions
“Between Heath and Sea”, Vik, Eidfjord. 2025
“The Colour of Water”, Vik, Eidfjord. 2024
“Winter Moods”, VIK, Eidfjord. 2023
“Summer Exhibition”, VIK, Eidfjord. 2023
“TEMPERATURE”, Sandnes Art Society. 2023
“Following the Wind”, VIK, Eidfjord. 2022

Group Exhibitions:
December exhibition, 2025. Strand Kunstforening. Tau, Norway.
Vestfold Art Fair, 2025
“This is Not a Members’ Exhibition”, Rogaland Art Centre. 2024
“Fall Exhibition”, Arts to Hearts. 2024
“The Magic of Dark Skies”, The Sill, Northumberland, England. In collaboration with Northumberland Dark Skies Park and Unison Colour. 2024
“Christmas Exhibition”, BKFR Gallery, Stavanger. 2023
“Autumn Exhibition”, Gallery Geo, Bergen. 2023
“Summer Exhibition”, Gallery Geo, Bergen. 2023
“Spring Exhibition”, Gallery G, Sandnes. 2021
“Wandering, Wondering”, online exhibition. PXP Contemporary. 2021
“Group Show”, online exhibition. Contemporary Art Curator Magazine. 2021
“Fall Art Show”, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine. 2020
“Landscapes”, online exhibition. PXP Contemporary. 2020
“SPRING”, online exhibition. Curated by Regulio Graak. WABGNET. 2020
“$€X¥ Gstaad”, curated by ArtsFemin. Huus Gstaad, Switzerland. 2019
“The Illusion of Reality”, Gallery De Marchi, Trevisan ...