Sven Berlin
Sculptor, Painter and Writer

The son of a Swedish timber merchant from South East London, Sven Berlin never went to art college.

Sven Berlin was one of the last surviving members of the “St. Ives School”, whose chief protagonists were Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo but his work avoided the academicism of both modern
and traditional practice. Visually, the strength of his work was based on confident, bold outlines, and went hand in hand with his work as a book illustrator to enable him to carve an authentic niche as one of the finest romantic draughtsmen of the period.

He died in 1999.

Andrew Lanyon
Painter, Publisher, Author and Film Maker

Born in St Ives in 1947, the son of artist Peter Lanyon, he was brought up in
West Cornwall.

He studied at the London School of Film Technique and worked in film for several years before starting to publish his own books in 1987.

His work is in public and private collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Selected Solo Painting Exhibitions
1973
Archer Gallery, London
Marjorie Parr, London

1979
Gilbert Parr, London

1981
Holsworthy, London

1988
Sheila Harrison, London

1995-2005
The Book Gallery, St Ives
New Arts Centre, London
Beaux Arts, Bath
Gordon Hepworth, Devon
Newlyn Orion, Cornwall
Will’s Lane Gallery,Cornwall
Plough Arts Center, Devon
Thomas Henry Fine Art, London

Breaking the Ice on the Hurry Skurry
180 x 170mm

Painter with Hen
300 x 250mm

The Concrete Poet
175 x 145mm

Still Life with Tornado
180 x 240mm

The Sculptor
240 x 200mm

The Somnambulist
220 x 240mm

THe Hat
180 x 100mm

Denis Mitchell
1912 - 1993
Sculptor

From the late 1940’s, sculptor Denis Mitchell was central to the St. Ives modernist artists. Renowned for his polished , dynamic bronzes, he evolved a visual language that was inspired by his intimate knowledge of working in and on the landscape.

He was chief assistant to Barbara Hepworth between 1949 and 1959.He initially worked with wood, slate and stone, but eventually found his own forms in sand-cast bronze. His implicit understandingof the balance of line and form created by the interplay of light and surface imbues Mitchell’s tall abstractsculptures with a unique vitality.