Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present ‘Adrian Berg - Late Style’, an exhibition of paintings by Adrian Berg (1929 - 2011) created during the final twenty five years of his life.
At the heart of the exhibition are Berg’s large-scale landscapes of Stourhead, complemented by works depicting Sheffield Park, Leighton Hall, Kew Gardens, as well as scenes from his travels in Australia, New Zealand, and Thailand. Among the highlights of the show is a remarkable circa four-metre-wide painting (Stourhead 17th and 18th June, 2000) of the treescape at Stourhead, classically reflected in the lake it borders. This luminous and expansive work shares an aesthetic affinity with the later Yorkshire works of his great friend and contemporary David Hockney.
This exhibition marks the beginning of a six-month series of events celebrating and reappraising Berg’s enduring contribution to post-war British painting. In October, we will present his iconic Regent’s Park works at Frieze Masters, London, the sole and irrepressible focus of his practice from the early 1960s to the mid 1980s. Then, in January 2026, the Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) will host a major retrospective of his work, including loans from the Tokyo’s Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) and from the UK, reaffirming the deep interest in Berg’s art in Japan since his British Council sponsored debut there in 1982.
