Please note this is an experiment in using AI which turned out quite interesting!! I don't claim authorship, only editorship! Sven Berlin was an artist whose life and work continues to intrigue lovers of art and literature. His story is not just about paintings and sculptures but also about a rich, complex biography that reveals a man deeply connected to his surroundings and experiences. As someone who has explored his life through various books and the insightful biography

In 1954 Sven and Juanita Berlin found an idyllic setting in a field in the New Forest to settle with their young son Jasper.

Fascinating to hear fresh ideas about Sven Berlin in Martin Shaw's talk at Field System gallery.

In 1963, long before Sven Berlin came into his life, Anthony Green took his mother Freda to the Panorama Tea Rooms at the Mayes Department Store in Southampton. He still recalls Sven’s colourful paintings on the walls and not thinking much about them, probably concentrating on the tea and cake! In the 1960s Sven Berlin was exhibiting everywhere. This slightly random show called One Man’s Paintings which ran from November 21st to December 10th (and was extended to December 27t

This time of year always reminds me of trips to the theatre, pantos and variety shows.  In the cold dark winters of the 1930s the public needed all the jollity possible and Sven Berlin and his adagio dancing partner and wife-to-be Helga were making a great success of their career on stage. Sven Berlin and Helga in the 1930s This splendidly theatrical photograph (which came to us from the family’s archive) dates to the 1930s and shows Helga wearing a truly furry warm coat and

One of the most timeless of Sven Berlin's oils is Forest Moon , from 1966, a striking landscape which he created with his usual confidence and spontaneity. Here at Leominstead Lake, Emery Down, Sven would come to fish and find solace in the peace. The December of 1965 had been a Christmas of hard drinking in the New Forest pubs, with Sven passing out on Christmas Eve, an event he blamed on medication he had been taking for bronchitis. His friend John Paddy Browne was encour

We have been shocked and deeply saddened by the devastating news of the sudden loss on 14th November 2025 of Toni Carver, a very dear friend and the Proprietor and Editor of the St. Ives Times & Echo.  Toni was our go-to point of contact in St. Ives, (Cornwall) where Sven Berlin spent so many years and made his name in the art world. Championing not only Sven and his work, Toni played a vital role in promoting the St. Ives art colony, through the unique publication that was t

The autumn mushrooms were in abundance below the beech trees. Sven's well-observed oil painting captures the damp mossy habitat.

Today (14th September) is Sven Berlin's birthday. He was born in 1911.

Just finished reading Matilda Webb's wonderful and definitive book on Alfred Wallis. a tour de force of 530 pages which took eight years to write. Couldn't put it down!

I was reminded of Sven's connections with Veterans of WW2 this week when I gave a talk for the members of the British Legion in Bartley,...

As in all military operations there were times of stillness and boredom. Sven filled them with writing and sketching, resulting in letters to the art critic Adrian Stokes that would form the basis of his book I am Lazarus and more than sixty pen and ink and pencil drawings...

We need your voice! Save Sven's Tower...

And yes, you did come along! Thank you for being such a lovely audience - old friends and new. Some remembering Sven and his time in the...

Sven Berlin would often write down inspirational little notes... from poetry or philosophy

Two sculptures we'd never seen before...

Sixty years ago, on 28 September 1964, the publication of Sven Berlin’s book on fishing, Jonah’s Dream: Meditation on Fishing, brought to...

Remembering all those who continued the fight in Normandy in 1944, among them the artist Sven Berlin who arrived on Juno Beach on D-Day+18.

With the Adagio dancing poster we take a look back at perhaps Sven's first identification of the passion of the duende...

Some of you may know that the last few months have seen a major move for us and for the Sven Berlin collection. We may no longer be deep...