Jan Senbergs is a major artist working in the Australian expressionist landscape tradition.

Senbergs was born in Latvia in 1939 and first arrived in Australia with his family in 1950. On arrival Senbergs worked as a screenprinter until noticed by Leonard French who encouraged him to become an artist. In many early works, Senbergs employed a collage-like technique of painting from ideas that came from a wide range of sources, literature, scientific notions and different cultures, which he would work around the picture plane until a formal resolution was achieved.

A reoccurring theme in Senbergs work is that of the individual struggling against the forces of nature and his relationship to both the urban and natural environment. In these works, man has the freedom to rule the landscape with man-made structures, however, eventually this will be his demise and the environment will finally dominate him.

Senbergs has recently has been working on urban landscape and vistas. He often works on a large scale where the local and specific experience is employed to comment on the general and universal. The expansive aerial views Senbergs has done of Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle and Wollongong, Sasha Grishin has compared to medieval maps through his mixing of schematic drawing with gestural painting. John MacDonald praises these monumental paintings in the Federation exhibition he curated at the National Gallery of Australia in 2001 when he described Senbergs's 'glorious vista of the city - showing off its new buildings, its casino, its bridges and highways - is one of the most heroic urban images since the Heidelberg School.'