Ingunn Dybendal
Oslo, Norway
Ingunn Dybendal is an illustrator living and working in Oslo, part of the Heiaklubben collective, with an illustration degree from Falmouth. Her work runs from a Google Doodle to a 360 square metre wall in Hamar, and her motto is more is more is more is more.
Prints by Ingunn Dybendal
2 prints
Pattern all the way down
Ingunn Dybendal, an Oslo-based artist and illustrator, draws in coloured pencil with extraordinary patience, and her two prints are the most densely worked pieces in the gallery. Eltsjoen turns a Nordic lake landscape into ornament: clouds stretched into ribbons, forest turned to folk motifs, water pooling in pale rings around a bridge. Trysilkaffe crams a green mug with an impossible bouquet, every bloom a different invention above a diamond-check cloth. Both sit squarely in the Nordic folk tradition, pattern on pattern, built stroke by stroke rather than in broad shapes.
This is work that rewards proximity. Hang Eltsjoen where you actually sit, beside a reading chair or above a desk, and it keeps offering new corners to find; the hundredth look pays as well as the first. Trysilkaffe brings the same density with more cheek, a natural fit for a kitchen or hallway wall. Both hold their own alongside the quieter pieces in our botanical collection, where their detail plays off simpler silhouettes rather than competing with them.
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