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

Sven Berlin's oil painting of the Gypsies of Shave Green, Priscilla and Dosha Wells. Dates from the 1950s when he arrived from Cornwall.

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

It was wonderful to meet the real Guy of Sven’s flamboyant portrait Guy in Hippy Gear recently. Immediately recognisable, we had a...

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

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The discovery of previously unpublished brush works by Hokusai, on show at The British Museum, inspires a few words on one of Sven...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