Helene Brox
Oslo, Norway
Helene Brox is an illustrator, hand letterer and mural painter based in Oslo, and a founding member of the illustration agency Heiaklubben. Her book covers won silver and a diploma at Norway’s Årets vakreste bøker in 2016, and she invents wholly unreal grafted plants to sell as prints.
Prints by Helene Brox
5 prints
Dancer
£56
Dragon
£56
IThinkIThink
£56
Swallow Dive
£56
Tree Top Peach
£56
Shape doing the talking
Helene Brox, an Oslo-based artist and illustrator, works in bold, flat shape: figures and birds cut down to silhouette, painted with the confidence of a papercut and set on a single ground colour. Across her five prints the same discipline holds whether the mood is calm or loud. Swallow Dive carries all its movement in one cobalt and one cream; Dancer catches a figure mid-stride with no face and no floor; Dragon dissolves a beast into ribbons of colour on black. Even IThinkIThink, the loudest print in the gallery, carries its confession in the same bold, cut-out shapes.
Which Brox suits a room depends on how much nerve the wall has. Tree Top Peach and Swallow Dive are the gentle ones, settling a bedroom or reading corner without disappearing into it; both sit comfortably among the calmer pieces in the bedroom collection. Dragon and IThinkIThink want the room where people gather and talk. All five share the same cut-out language, so any two hang together naturally, one calm and one loud, and the pairing reads as deliberate rather than matched.
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