Adrian Berg (1929-2011) painted landscapes, often returning to the same place again and again over weeks, months and years. Like Claude Monet, the artist he admired above all others, Berg found new ways to paint the same places. A great colourist like David Hockney, his contemporary at The Royal College of Art, the two artists remained lifelong friends.
Berg's best known works are celebrations of nature, in particular landscapes shaped by man: the parks of our cities and the gardens of our great country houses. Just as humankind has changed the land, so Berg interpreted what he saw.
For almost three decades from the early 1980's, Berg's studio overlooked Regent's Park in London. He worked from his window on the top floor of Gloucester Gate, a Nash terrace on the east side of the royal park. He then ventured out to other parks and country estates. They included Kew and Syon in west London, Nyman's and Sheffield Park in Sussex, and Stourhead in Wiltshire.
This survey, the first since his death shows why Berg is one of Britain's great and innovative landscape painters.