Adrienne Silva

I Make the Art I Want to See…Works: No Words For Where I Want to be Right Now and Until We Meet Again . Opening Exhibition Cape Town

Make Sure Everything is There..when We Run Away Together

Andrew Lamprecht , Curator of Historical Paintings and Sculpture Iziko Museums of South Africa, writes about ,  Adrienne Silva’s About Face , 200cm x 180cm, see excerpt below image. Opening exhibition at Eclectica Contemporary curated by Architecht Frank Böhm.

The Unseen Way  O Caminho Invísivel   140cm x 120cm *now available  *disponível

I Feel You Are Close  Sinto Estás Perto 100cm x 90 cm  *now available  * disponível 

We May Learn the Truth when we Leave Plato’s Cave :  90cm x 100cm  *now sold

Standing on Time :140cm x 120cm *now sold

Private Collection, Cape Town.

Atelier Adrienne Silva , Lisboa , Portugal

Novas Pinturas no Verão de 2021

Sintra Summer

You Give Me Reason To Paint

Forbidden 1.4mx 1.2m

Forbidden, leaving the studio for its new home to Mount Nelson Collection Cape Town

Title : Of Course it’s Hidden at the back and You have to Find It   ( 1m x 80 cm OIL) This work is now for Sale

As Três Marias  , 2020 The large work for Lisboa.  SOLD

You Are Here . Large work in Oil , reflecting my memory of art. Now in a Private Collection, Cape Town.

Until We Meet Again, a Large work in The Mount Nelson Collection, Cape Town

Taipei Stain (now Available)

Closer To Nature ( now sold) Perto da Natureza *indisponível

Lisboa , Benfica. Fórum Grandela. Museu da Republica e da Resistençia.  left to right: Carmen , Manuella, Adrienne and  Helder. We worked hard for the opening.

Opening with new work First Thursdays Cape Town,  Last moment with my Man. A real first, he was sold before opening. I am not done with him. Hopefully I bring him back in another form and time. 

A Pair of Louis XV  style chairs c1920: Adrienne’s Art , curated by John Silva

In The Studio

I Make The Art I Want to See  , this idea by the writing of Austin Kleon . This idea makes me paint in my language.

I Make Art I want to See #1

My Muse Sends Me The Blues  1.4m x 1.2 m (now Sold)

First Thursday, Youngblood Gallery Cape Town. Opening. My Muse Sends Me The Blues.

Love You Till I Die My Buddha Guy

A Large work now available (sold)

Cais das Colunas 140cmx 120cm now available (SOLD)

I Make Art I Want to See #2

The Stars and You  * Private collection

ISABELLA  Contemporary portrait commission completed , Collector Cape Town 2017

Large work 120cm x 90cm  :Oil

Dream Catcher  (  2015 ) Collector Brazil

showing close up detail of a work, The Thread of the Meaning Lay in the Shadows, in Carsten Roth collection Frankfurt Germany.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I paint life now.
I have never differentiated between what I do when I create and my daily routine.

For me, creativity is the essence of being and you will see this in my inspired projects, where I question roots and individual displacement, human- and world suffering,and where meaning lies.

Greg Dougal (southafricanartists.com) writes about Adrienne Silva:

Thought – provoking work from popular artist Adrienne Silva invites us to study what is happening in her work and what we can learn from it.

Our heritage is a rich resource which, as we grow ourselves, we seek to understand and embrace – how it has informed us….Yet is is elusive and eroded by the passage of time and other factors beyond our control so we cannot delay in our search for hidden meaning. 

LISBON:  Atelier :Gallery Studio : Rua Silva Carvalho 88 , Campo de Ourique.  A few metres down the road from The Amoreiras. Uma galeria Portuguesa com certeza!

 

Dream Delight

  working with Emily Ball

 

Adrienne with Mafalda Da Serrano in Lisbon : the RTP interview: answering questions about the work, RTP Studios in Lisbon

  Jaya comes to Principe Real, Lisbon, to view my exhibition, from Paris.

All the Time…A painting I explored after painting for South African poet, Chris van der Walt

Paris is Expensive , I made for the gallerist after my visit! No time to stop and stare.

In studio mark-making

South African moment  at Opening of Kentridge Show Cape Town December 1 , 2017.

In Conversation FMR Studios Cape Town . Prof Amanda Botha discusses my new body of work, NO Words.

Eduoardo Villa and his studio assistant and friend, Lucas Legodi, pause for a moment at the Lanzerac Stellenbosch. Here I worked on the show for Eduoardo and the Late Cecil Skotnes, for 3 months. We sold out.

Eduoardo Villa , Adrienne Silva and Lucas Legodi