Van den Berg Fine Art Gallery.

A painter. A pianist.
An explorer.

For Riaan van den Berg, a painting begins with a feeling. A classical pianist and lifelong educator, he finds a natural connection between musical composition and abstract painting; classical music, the shapes of nature and the energy of a brushstroke all find their way onto the canvas.

He spent close to three decades leading Art and Culture with Music at North West University in Potchefstroom. His path has included lectures at the University of Edinburgh, fine arts studies in Salzburg, work alongside Dirk Meerkotter at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 1993, and a solo exhibition in Warsaw in 2013.

ADDRESS

Club Bayshore Marina, 52 Ring Road, Vaal Marina, Gauteng

ARTIST

Riaan van den Berg, painter and pianist

FOR

Collectors, interior designers, decorators and architects

ONLINE

A Life in Colour at bergfineart.com

Art is better
in person.

• Painting, form and colour: abstract compositions, triptychs, floral works and studies in red, black, gold and turquoise.
• Beyond the canvas: sculpture in the garden, where colour finds another dimension.
• Art in context: collaboration with private collectors, interior designers, decorators and architects on homes, offices and commercial spaces.
• Private viewings, acquisitions and workshops at the gallery by the Vaal Dam.

Music. Movement.
A lifetime of looking.

Riaan van den Berg’s work shows how one discipline can inform another: proportion and rhythm learned at the piano become structure and movement on the canvas. His paintings are made to live with architecture, and many are seen at their best on the scale of a room.

An independent gallery that keeps an artist’s work, story and voice together is rare. It offers a South African perspective that deserves an international audience.