Paul Dikker (1959) is an independent, internationally oriented visual artist. He is working in both the Netherlands and Norway. In 1984 he finished his art studies in at the State Academy of Fine Arts (Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten) and he graduated with distinction from his studies in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam in 1985. Since 1997 Paul Dikker has been traveling frequently through Spain and Portugal, where he also worked and lived for a while. Since 2006 he has been painting in Norway for at least three months a year. He has exhibited his work in The Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Germany. In Norway he exhibited his work in Oslo, Bergen, Voss, Arendal, Norheimsund, Ålvik and Utne. In 2007 the Oslo Museum organized a solo exhibition with his paintings. In 2010 the publishing house Aschehoug Forlag (Oslo) released the book 'Alt det som er' (Everything there is), for which Paul Dikker collaborated with the Norwegian writer Bjørn Sortland. The book was spread across all the libraries in Norway. It got great reviews and even had a second edition.