Bird & Animal Wall Art from Nordic Artists
Every creature here is a shape before it's a creature. Helene Brox works flat and unfussy: a cobalt swallow cut down to the plunge of its wings, dozens of small silhouettes hidden in a peach lattice of branches, and a dragon that coils across black in ribbons of white, red and pink. That's what makes an animal print sit well in a Scandinavian room, pattern and silhouette rather than field-guide detail. All three can be bought framed in wood, black or white, or unframed.
Three prints, three quite different moods. Swallow Dive is only two colours, cobalt on cream, and it wants a wall to itself where the dive has somewhere to go. Tree Top Peach is the gentlest of the three, closer to a folk papercut than an illustration, and it rewards hanging where you actually sit. Dragon is the loud one, a beast glimpsed in fragments on a black ground, and it needs a wall that can hold its nerve. Choose on the ground colour rather than the creature: cobalt runs cool against white walls and pale wood, peach runs warm alongside wood and earthy textiles, and black will anchor a whole room. Get the background right and the rest looks after itself.
3 prints
Prints
Swallow Dive
£56
Tree Top Peach
£56
Dragon
£56
Styling bird and animal prints
- A single animal print does better with a wall to itself. Centre it at eye level, roughly 145 to 150 cm off the floor, and leave the space either side empty; the movement in these prints needs somewhere to go.
- Match the ground colour to the room, not the birds. Cobalt sits happily on white walls and pale wood, while Tree Top Peach wants warmth around it: wood, leather, earthy textiles.
- Swallow Dive and Tree Top Peach hang well together because neither shouts. Same size, same frame, an even 5 to 8 cm gap, and they read as a considered pair rather than two prints that happened to both have birds in them. Dragon is better on its own.
- If you would rather stay with one artist across a bigger wall, both of these sit comfortably beside Helene Brox's abstract pieces, which share the same flat-colour language.
Common questions
What makes an animal print feel Scandinavian?
Flat colour and silhouette, mostly. Every print here treats the creature as a shape rather than a study: Swallow Dive carries a whole diving bird in two colours, Tree Top Peach is closer to a folk papercut than an illustration, and Dragon dissolves its beast into pure rhythm. Helene Brox is an independent artist working in Oslo, which is why these read as Nordic animal prints rather than anything out of the wildlife-plate tradition.
What sizes do these prints come in, and can I have them framed?
All three come in one size, 50 x 70 cm. Sizes are listed on each product page, where you also choose unframed or a wood, black or white frame, with the price for the size you've picked shown before you add it to the basket. Every print is made to order and delivered worldwide, with the cost shown at checkout.