Dragon

Dragon by Helene Brox coils across a black ground in ribbons of white, red, pink and grey, a beast glimpsed in fragments rather than drawn whole. Find the pale blue eyes and the composition snaps into focus; relax, and it dissolves back into pure rhythm. The most energetic piece in Brox's collection sits closer to pattern than portrait, and the black ground gives every colour real bite. One for a wall that can hold its nerve.

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.