Eltsjoen

Eltsjoen by Ingunn Dybendal reimagines a Nordic lake landscape as dense coloured-pencil pattern: pink sky, dark mountain, patterned forest, blue water. Every band of the scene becomes ornament: clouds stretched into ribbons, trees turned to folk motifs, the water pooling in pale rings around a bridge. It is the most detailed piece in the gallery, drawn stroke by stroke, and it rewards the hundredth look as much as the first.