Helgi Fríðjónsson

In a monograph by Elena Pontiggia, the artist's work was described as "northern, polar fairytales, full of fish and walrus, crossed by ice sheets and clouds, where unexpected water springs appear and there is an uninterrupted limbo of angels and birds chirping.

"[3] He says he works images rapidly and that they are based on concepts connecting them to particular time periods.

It was at an exhibition at the Kjarvalsstaðir branch of the Reykjavík Art Museum in 1987 that Helgi first received widespread recognition for his work.

Helgi extensively references legends and stories in ways that take on surreal undertones, but the work is never formally surrealistic.

Gunnar B. Kvaran says in a book about Helgi published by the Reykjavík Art Museum in 1989 that the idea and the subject have always played an equally important role in the formal implementation of his inspirations.