Sven Berlin was rarely idle during the winter, however harsh, and each New Year brought renewed ambition. In 1946, as reported in The...

How wonderful to see the colours of late summer/early autumn at the Chelsea Flower Show. Sometimes serendipity makes us look at a regular...

Happy memories of the 1960s come flooding back looking at this amazing Sven Berlin portrait Guy in Hippy Gear. Those bell bottoms!...

Perhaps the most iconic photograph of Sven Berlin is that taken by Murray Hardy in 1946 of the bare-chested sculptor carving his Portland...

The discovery of previously unpublished brush works by Hokusai, on show at The British Museum, inspires a few words on one of Sven...

Inevitably a style of painting speaks of an artist’s frame of mind or circumstances and I was pondering this while cataloguing the work...

Sven painted and illustrated all kinds of birds, but cockerels had a special place throughout his life. He would draw the Gypsies’ pet...

One of Sven’s most interesting essays is his Notes on the Experience of Drawing for Young People, written for his grand-daughter Tanya,...

Sven Berlin was visited by the Lee family and painted Cliff, the knife grinder and his son Ken.

Memories of Sven Berlin in St. Ives from Suzanne Newton, now aged 92, when she was on holiday and they danced at the St. Ives Art Club.

There are some remarkable images of the Shave Green Gypsies in the New Forest in the 1940s and 1950s. It is especially interesting to...

Some fascinating insight relating to the publication of Sven Berlin’s now infamous book The Dark Monarch has come from Toni Carver,...

Berlin often returned to the image of figures sleeping, embodying what he referred to as his ‘floating dreams’. The Dreamers, a pencil...

Augustus John described the work of Mary Jewels as 'remarkable in the intensity of their earth feeling' (Vogue/The Woman Artist/August...

Stunning sunsets in the New Forest are especially memorable at all times of year. Sven Berlin often drew comparison with the changing...

Sven was one of many artists to interpret Coleridge’s epic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and I was reminded of this and Berlin’s...

Sven Berlin was very supportive of the New Forest Gypsies and their culture as he demonstrated in his book Dromengro: Man of the Road. Inter

Always good to read an inspiring review and many thanks to Toni Carver, Proprietor of the St. Ives Times and Echo for his permission to repr

One of Sven Berlin’s favourite places to walk and to paint in his later years was along the River Stour near Cowgrove, Wimborne. The swans o

Sven Berlin is often labelled as ‘self-taught’ but this is not entirely the case. You may not know that he attended the Engineering School i