ABOUT

Sabina Silver is a British Ghanaian visual artist whose work explores memory, tension, and the quiet states that exist between rest and unease. Working with acrylic, oil pastels, and pigment inks, she creates paintings that dwell on moments of stillness and interruption, where softness is charged with strain.

Nature is a recurring presence in her practice. Plants, animals, and elemental forces appear not only as motifs but as emotional signifiers. They carry what is left unspoken, becoming vessels for tenderness, displacement, belonging, and the layered experience of diaspora.

Entirely self taught, Silver developed her practice outside academic training, shaped instead by experimentation and lived experience. Her process is slow and intuitive, often involving the deliberate layering of pigment to build surfaces that hold contradiction. Calm and unease, beauty and struggle, fragility and endurance remain inseparable within each composition.

Her paintings open a space for what cannot be neatly resolved. Silver is interested in how memory is carried in the body, how silence and hesitation can communicate as powerfully as language, and how unresolved feeling continues to shape perception. Each work invites viewers to dwell in suspension, to remain for a moment with what resists articulation but endures in lived experience.