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The discovery of previously unpublished brush works by Hokusai, on show at The British Museum, inspires a few words on one of Sven...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

A great way to start the New Year with our first dedicated News letter! Always so much to say about this charismatic, larger than life...

Discovering Sven Berlin's first self portrait has survived has been an excellent start to 2021. It was painted in 1938, before he left...

Today, 5 years ago, Sven Berlin's White Buck carving arrived in Godshill in the New Forest. This is the team that saved it from...

This powerful Sven Berlin drawing of a stallion's head from 1958 is presumed to be of Spotlight, a huge and characterful Appaloosa horse...

Sven Berlin's pencil drawing Horse & Rider sent us looking through our photographic archives.

Timeless Man, the biography by Sonia Aarons of artist Sven Berlin.