PRESS RELEASE
SHANY VAN DEN BERG | A Place to Bloom
Nov 14 – Nov 29, 2025
SHANY VAN DEN BERG
A PLACE TO BLOOM
14 November - 13 December 2025
Everard Read London presents South African artist, Shany van den Berg’s new exhibition of paintings and sculptures.
Van den Berg’s nudes and floral still lifes are lush, vegetal and exemplify her profound connection to nature, womanhood and her place in the world. For the artist, motifs from the natural world centre on the cycles of changing seasons which are mirrored in family lines and individual lives.
Van den berg’s reclining nudes trace their lineage to the Renaissance masters and the Neoclassical movement, most notably Giorgione, Titian and Ingres, and continue an intimate conversation across time. The curves and palette of her florals might take inspiration from the likes of Georgie O’Keefe, but they are largely the vibrant inventions of her imagination.
