So thrilled to discover the strength of feeling for the preservation, conservation and future use of Sven's Tower in St. Ives. We're playing our part and the campaign is gaining momentum!

Really excited to tell you we are very busy creating our next show Sven Berlin: Disturbance in the West. Runs from 12 September 2026 to 16 January 2027. It features many unseen works from the collection covering 1934 to 1969.

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!

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...

Two sculptures we'd never seen before...

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.

Croust by Sven Berlin. 1939 pencil drawing of haymaking in the fields of Cornwall.

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The discovery of previously unpublished brush works by Hokusai, on show at The British Museum, inspires a few words on one of Sven...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