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...

Two sculptures we'd never seen before...

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

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The discovery of previously unpublished brush works by Hokusai, on show at The British Museum, inspires a few words on one of Sven...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

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

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...