Shany van den Berg’s artistic practice stems from her life as a woman, mother and professional artist.

Renowned for her technical acumen and agility in slipping between portraiture, figurative, abstraction and sculptural, she investigates and interrogates the critical contemporary themes of womanhood, identity, family, and connectedness to mother earth.

With subtle symbolism and technical agility, her artwork is diverse, ranging from portraiture, figuration and mixed media, combined with abstraction and sculpture. She reconstitutes her stream of consciousness as both fable and history, binding together a layered ‘map’. This serves as both a solitary interior landscape of self-reflection and the more universal language of humanity’s journey through one’s life.

Shany van den Berg’s artworks poignantly reminds one that we are all unique and also inescapably part of one human race and planet.