 While her father, Erling Berg, established economic foundations for the fishermen in the northern rural areas of Norway, Guri was early exposed to creative activities by her mother Herfrid, a professional tailor.Guri Berg is perhaps best known for her stoneware sculpture portraits of world natives and her stone-quarry work.Her work often combines art with technology, for example by using mathematical filter-functions as a basis for a series of large oil paintings.