Witnessing the recent studio sale of the remains of Sven Berlin’s prodigious output has been a memorable experience and one which has...

Sven Berlin was inspired by the glorious colours of Spain on his way back from the Gypsy Festival in Les Saintes Maries.

Sven Berlin's Lapp Hat and pen and ink of Clifford Lee

Hares in the Maize, watercolour by Sven Berlin. Happy Easter. From our collection at Millersford Gallery

Sven Berlin pen and ink self portrait Man with Macaw

Sven Berlin visited London Zoo to enable him to draw more exotic creatures for Anthony Dent's book Animals that changed the world

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

The discovery of previously unpublished brush works by Hokusai, on show at The British Museum, inspires a few words on one of Sven...

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.

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

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

Our recent newsletter and its request for your stories, brought a warm response from a number of ‘friends of Sven’ far and wide - one, a...