Sculptor, ceramist, draughtsman and teacher, born in St Ives, Cornwall, daughter of the sculptor Sven Berlin, mother of the artist Zennor Witney. Berlin worked in bronze, plaster, clay, steel and stone. She described her sculptures as “Expressionist, figurative, an exploration of human forms alone and in relationship with each other”. Berlin was a lecturer in ceramics at Brockenhurst Tertiary College, 1970–90; in the 1970s she was also engaged in archaeological ceramic research at Butser Hill, Hampshire, in the 1980s working as a copyist at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Carried out many commissions, including a nine-foot bronze of Lord Mountbatten for Timberlaine, Grosvenor Square, Southampton, 1989; the comedian Max Wall, in Theatre Museum collection, 1992; and Birdman, Hampshire County Council, 1993.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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