Chava Silverman - Recent Work

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Recent Paintings 2019

In 2019 I began a new series of dream and fantasy landscape paintings, based on my lifelong search to give voice to my internal visions where dream, symbol, memory, and a personal iconography combine in a dancing choreography on the canvas. The new paintings have a childlike quality, and indeed return me to very early years in my life where I could lose myself for hours on end, creating a colorful fantasy world based on objects which represented for me objects in the real world.
​Paintings from 2019 - Click on the figure above.

My Sketchbook Drafts

The majority of the new paintings in 2019 are based on rough sketches and drafts on paper, where I used acrylics, oil pastels, charcoal, and ink sticks to seek and discover my internal dream images. These sketches represent  a search for the inner symbolism and forms that give voice to my innermost world and being, a world that both carries me back to my early childhood, but draws on life experiences as an adult, where I have constantly been seeking the art, color, forms, music, and rhythm that speak to me on the deepest levels of my being.
​Sketchbook works in mixed media on paper - Click on the figure above.

​recent Paintings 2017- 2018

In 2017-2018, I carried further the insights I had achieved when working with  collage and tried to bring them to a more powerful and personal expression. Many of these paintings were inspired by the collage work.
​Paintings from 2017-2018 - Click on the figure above.