“Showing yourself to the world and hoping someone else understands” R. F. Kwang

Anne Berg was born in London in 1942 and has been a painter for well over 60 years. Academically trained she has a BA in Fine Art from Newcastle University, where the painting masters were Victor Pasmore and Richard Hamilton, whose philosophies she rejected. She also has an MSc in Industrial Design, honing her distaste for a technological world in which profit trumped beauty.

Anne Berg’s diaries started as secondary to her painting but over time became increasingly elaborate illuminated documents – works of art in themselves.

Anne created this painting in 1996 to celebrate her illuminated diaries, several thousand pages chronicling her struggles as a woman painter and mother. It depicts the mains themes of her art: children, animals, nature and home and the perennial struggle against patriarchal attempts to control women’s dreams and desires.