About the artist

Øyvind Pedersen (1982) was born and raised in Narvik, Nordland. He has also lived for several years in Troms before eventually settling in Alta, Finnmark. He draws inspiration from a lifelong and wide-ranging engagement with outdoor life above the Arctic Circle. His medium of choice is acrylic on plywood.

Style & Philosophy

His work is primarily concerned with the formal and chromatic essence and structure of natural and cultural landscapes. Post-Impressionism, Color field and Hard-edge painting are closely related stylistic references.

Pedersen’s overarching minimalist art project is rooted in a deep respect for nature and a critical stance toward modern consumerism. In a world characterized by excess and constant noise, his work represents an effort to strip away the superfluous and remain with the essential.

This approach functions as a necessary counterforce. By abstracting the Northern landscape into its purest forms, he seeks to draw attention to the value of the untouched. The deliberate omission of noise and detail in his paintings parallels a conscious rejection of unnecessary consumption. His work is about protecting the mental and physical spaces where nature is allowed to simply exist, undisturbed by human intervention. In this sense, each piece becomes a quiet protest—a reminder that beauty and harmony are found in simplicity, if only we leave it be.