Pamela Silver was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1948. She spent her childhood in Zimbabw. In 1973 she immigrated to Israel. She lives and works in Motza Illit, a village outside Jerusalem. She is married to Justin Silver and mother of Daniel, Naomi and Tamar Silver
Pamela Silver is an intuitive abstract colorist, whose work connects to a rich inner world. She works in watercolors, oils and monotypes

1969 Graduated Bachelor of Arts Degree: History and English, University of Cape Town
1970 Taught Remedial Reading at Sir Philip Magnus School, London
1971 Teachers' Certificate, Goldsmith’s College, University of London
1973 Immigrated to Israel
1975-1977 Taught art at Ilanot, Jerusalem
1976-82 Studied painting and drawing with Aharon April, Jerusalem
1982-83 Studied painting at the Art Students League, New York with Leo Manso
1991-93 Studied print and papermaking with Zvi Tolkovsky, and glass sculpture with Louis Sakalovsky, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem
1992 Studied etching with Sidon Rothenberg, the Jerusalem Print Workshop
1995 Studied Monoprinting at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
2002 Official Artist of the ERA-EDTA Conference, Copenhagen
2009 Printed an Artist's Book of 9 etchings at the Jerusalem Print Workshop
1997-2010 prints independently in the open studio at the Jerusalem print workshop

2009 "A Jerusalem Summer Evening" Sulegaaarden, Assens, Denmark
"Cape Town how I love you and all your secrets" The Old Wine Cellar Gallery, Spier, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2008 "Sensing the other" The Jerusalem Art Centre
2006 "Secret Symbols" Gallery Nora, Jerusalem
2004 "Circles in the Sand" Artists' House Jerusalem
"Circles in the Sand" Galleri am Park Vienna
"Circles of my Mind" Museu Da Agua Da Epal, Lisbon
2003 "Images Fleeting Past", Khan Museum Ashkelon
2002 Galeri St. Gertrud, Copenhagen, Denmark
Official Artist of the EDTA International Congress, Copenhagen
2000 Gallery Saka, Tokyo, Japan
1999 Leighton House Museum, London, England
Bet Gabriel on the Kinneret, Israel
1998 The Jerusalem Municipal Gallery
1997 The Artists' House, Jerusalem
1995 Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv
The National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
The National Gallery in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
1993 The Jerusalem Theatre Gallery, Jerusalem
1992 Nora Gallery, Jerusalem
1991 Alon Gallery, Boston, USA
1990 Mabat Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1988 The Jerusalem Artists' House
Ben Uri Art Society, London
1984 Alon Gallery, Jerusalem.

2010 "Her Presence in Colors IX", International Women Artists Exhibition, Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Oregan
2008 "Olympic Fine Art Exhibition" Beijing
"Surfaces Fractures" Jerusalem Artists' House
"International Women's Day" Bet Hatanach, Tel Aviv
1998-2008 "Put and Take" Annual miniature exhibition, Sulegaarden, Assens, Denmark
2007 "III National Drawing Biennale" Jerusalem Artists' House,
"VII Biennale of Aquarelle" Savremena Galerija, Serbia
"Printmakers" Gallery Zeek, Jerusalem
"Ecological Exhibition" Cinematque, Tel Aviv
"Small Dimensions" Gallery Nora, Jerusalem
"Riimfaxe" Schloss Reinbek, Hamburg
2006 "Awakening" Wilfred Israel Museum, Kibbutz Hazorea
"Button and Flower" Gallery Nora, Jerusalem
2005 "Second Beijing International Art Biennale", Beijing;
"Second Triennial of Contemporary Art" Mauritius
"The House" Bet Ahuza, Raanana
"100"Galleri Sulegaarden, Assens; Denmark
"Print" Muzeum Miastro Ostrowa, Wielkopolskiego
"Riimfaxe" Skovhuset, Vaelose
2004 "Riimfaxe" Round Tower, Copenhagen
2003 "Israeli Contemporary" Robert Sandelson Gallery, London
"Riimfaxe" SAK Kunstbygning, Svendborg
"Glimpse"Riimfaxe, Galleri Sulegaarden, Assens
"Seven Artists in One Exhibition Season" Mabat Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2002 "Jerusalem Lions" Street Exhibition
"International Mini-Print Triennale" Tama University Art Museum, Tokyo
"Freedom" Museum Hanita, Israel
"Jerusalem, 9 Measures of Beauty" Yakar Gallery, Jerusalem
Tama University Art Museum, Japan Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennale,
Museum Hanita, Israel -‘Freedom’
2001 Gallery M, Berlin Germany Riimfaxe Exhibition
Gallery Gedok, Hamburg, Riimfaxe Exhibition
2000 The Jerusalem Artists House, -'30 x30' -catalogue
Fyns Udstillingsbygning, Odense, Denmark, -Riimfaxe Exhibition
1999 Sabinski Collection, The Opera House, Tel Aviv
1998 Tama Art Museum, Japan Tokyo,- International Mini-Print Triennale,
Fargo Art Museum, North Dakota, U.S.A.,-'Moscow, Jerusalem, Moorhead'
Galeria d’Art Zero, Bacelona, Spain,-' 50 years to Israel'
1997 Manege, St. Petersburg, Russia, -'Dialogue' The Third International Biennale
Osaka Triennial 1997, Japan,-8th International Contemporary Art Competition
1996 Central Artists House, Moscow, 'Jerusalem – Moscow1996', 'Kesher Group
1989/91 Grand Prix International d’art Plastiques, Nice, France- catalogue
1989 The Jerusalem Artist's House- 'Tashmat'
1986 Museum Yad Labanim Herzliah ' South African Artists'

1995 Si Diplome Di Honneur Grand Prix International D’Arts Plastiques, Nice, France

Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Tel Aviv Museum
Museu Da Agua Da Epal, Lisbon
Tama Art Museum, Tokyo
National Gallery in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
The State Museum, Majdanek
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
The Israel Embassy, London
Danske Bank, Denmark
The London Jewish Museum of Art, London
Many private collections in Israel and throughout the world.

1985 Member of Israel Association of Painters and Scu1ptors
1996 Member of National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Printmakers, U.K.
1999 Member Riimfaxe, Denmark

1996 First International Plein Air ‘Kesher’ on Graphic Art, Chelyuskinskaya, Russia
1997 Second International Plein Air, St. Petersburg, Russia
1998 Third International Plein Air Print Workshop, Moorhead University, U.S.A.

2009 "A Jerusalem Summer Evening" Sulegaaarden, Assens, Denmark
2008 "Sensing the other" The Jerusalem Art Centre
2006 "Secret Symbols", Nora Gallery, Jerusalem
2003 "Monotypes", Khan Museum Ashkelon
1995 "A Journey Home to Zimbabwe", Mabat Gallery Tel Aviv, National Gallery of Zimbabwe

Meir Ronnen, THE JERUSALEM POST, Nov. 25, 2004
Few, if any, Israeli artists are better at conveying the medium's transparent watery riches than Pamela Silver (b. South Africa, 1948, here since 1973) whose work currently fills three rooms at the Jerusalem Artists House.
Silver began as an instinctive painter but her work has become increasing sophisticated over the last decade. Her latest show of many parts contains a few dazzling innovations, particularly the Eye series, in which a few calligraphic stokes of a large brush are placed in relation to one another with the eye of a Japanese calligrapher. These are also rendered in deep, nearly opaque color, lending them a special power.
While Silver has learned here that less is more, she shows other successful works that contain a myriad of little experiences and areas of wash, expertly brought off with a variety of brush points.
Just look at the three large loosely circular paintings in the foyer. One is a watery spiral, its neighbor a group of washes seen against tiny drawn additions, a case of instinctive beginnings gradually combined into a meaningful whole. Neither is overworked.

Yehudit Revach: Globs [Israeli Financial Times] July 25 1990, Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv.
Pamela Silver’s work has spontaneity, energy and a free flow of color. Her paintings reflect the well known transparent and airy qualities of watercolors.
Silver is a virtuoso with this technique and uses it correctly and with relevance to her artistic statement. Her aesthetics, as well as her composition and lines are similar to children’s paintings .Silver’s artistic roots stem from the abstract, to which she adds drawn lines which are reminiscent of Cy Twombly and maybe Rafi Lavi….
Her paintings have a light colorful atmosphere, full of momentum and yet well thought out and well constructed……this makes her paintings not only beautiful but visually absorbing and enthralling.

Mike Ronnen [Jerusalem Post] March 1992, Jerusalem Theatre Gallery

Pamela Silver shows a new series or watercolors, the result of visit to the Cape Province. On view are delightful gesture landscapes of mountainous views stated with confident, fluid simplicity and a happy harmony of palette, with the austere addition of a few impeccably placed strokes of pencil; they are a joyous celebration of nature without being in any way literal, a remarkable feat. One of them evokes the rolling vistas of Cezanne's Money St. Victoroire, though the method is entirely different.


Mike Ronnen [Jerusalem Post] July1997, Jerusalem Artists House
Over the decade, Silver has moved from painting gardens, flowers and landscapes to a form of gestured abstraction that merely echoes in semi-descript ional roots.
In finding her own voice, which speaks up in this show, she has resorted to no formula.
Each of her pictures offers a different solution to a self imposed problem…., her resolutions are identifiably her own and in no way resemble those of anyone else…..
The results are often sparkling in Silver’s lively often joyous approach. ..It’s some sort of magic combination of the two that leads to winners, in life too, I suppose, as well as art.

2009 Robyn Cohen, "Artist Captures Secrets of Cape" Cape Times, South Africa, February 2, 2009 page 9
Moira Schneider, "Pamela Silver finds her gold in Africa" Jewish Report South Africa, Friday, 13th February, 2009 Volume 13, number 5
2008 Eikestad nuus, Pamela Silver exhibits at Spier Friday 30 January 2008 Kuns and Vermaak
Andrew Tobin, a Brush with Success. Jerusalem Post Magazine. In Jerusalem Friday, September 19
Jewish Chronicle Cape Town September issue Write up about Pamela Silver
Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, www .newc.cn, www.chinaview.cn, (plate)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/11/content_9189059_1.htm
Globes newspaper page 3–plate 23-24/6/08
2004 Mike Ronnen, "The Magic of Water and Color"Jerusalem Post Magazine Upfront, November 26
2003 Gil Godfine Jerusalem Post Magazine in the Frame March 28
Gil Goldfine Jerusalem Post Magazine in the Frame June 27 (plate)
2000 Angela Levine Jerusalem Post Magazine in the Frame May 14
Herald Tribune Anglophile (plate) July 1
In Jerusalem (plate) July 1
Meir Ronnen, Jerusalem Post, January 14, (plate) exhibition 30x30 at the Jerusalem Artists' House
1999 Angela Levine, In the Frame, The Jerusalem Post Magazine (plate), July 23
Fyeun Stiftetidade 10.9.99 , Fyns Amts Avis , Rimfaxe PA Filosoffen –plate
Julia Weiner, The Jewish Chronicle, ‘Silver Leaf’ April 19, (plate)
The Jerusalem Post, July16, (plate), p.7
The Herald Tribune, July 6 (plate)
Fyeun Stiftetidade 10.9.99 , Fyns Amts Avis , Rimfaxe PA Filosoffen (plate)
Phil Ellis ‘Magic Earth’ Antiques Magazine, London 3-16 April, (plate)
Tony Keniston, Antiques and Art Independent ‘I dream my paintings’ April 99 (plate)
“My Garden in Jerusalem” The Hill, Kensington, (plate) P.10, April 99
London Jewish News, "Art around the world", March 26, plate
1998 Angela Levine in the Frame, the Jerusalem Post Magazine July 10
The Jerusalem Post Magazine, Art, July 17 -plate
Kol Yerusalim July 10 -plate
Ansim B’kol zeva yesh or, Taruchot July 7
Angela Levine in the Frame, the Jerusalem Post Magazine September 11
Angela Levin, In the Frame, the Jerusalem Post Magazine October 9
Bente Dalgaard Dobbeltsyn i drivhuset Fyens Stiftstidende Denmark October 9
1997 Meir Ronnen, "Degrees of Seriousness", the Jerusalem Post Magazine, September 12
The Israel Observer, September October, p.28 [plate]
The Jerusalem Post, Time Out p.10, [plate]
David Kaplan Silver Streak,, Telfed September1997, vol. 23,no.3
1996 Amy Klein, "A Rose by any other Name," the Jerusalem Post Magazine, July 5, 1996
The Jerusalem Post Magazine November 1, 1996, p. 10 -plate.
1995 P. Kershaw, "Pamela Silver's Gentle Abstract Expressionism," The Sunday News July 16, Bulawayo
Pikirayi Deketeke, "Silver Relives her Youth", The Sunday Mail Magazine Harare, December 3
David Kaplan" African Brushstrokes" Telfed, May 1995, Vol 21, No 2, Art Scene
"Four by Five", Israeli Art Journal, Pamela Silver "Drawings from a Journey Home to Zimbabwe" (plate), May
"The Bulletin", Bulawayo, Vol. II, No. 7, Art, Home Again, July, 1995
"What is on in Bulawayo" (Cover plate), August 1995
Merle Guttman "A Journey Home to Zimbabwe". Ezra, July-August 1995, Art/Music. (Plate)
Skyhost, Zimbabwe Airline In-flight Magazine, Vol 3 Number 1 .p.23-26
1993 M. Ronnen, "Art and the Stage", The Jerusalem Post Magazine, February 12 (plate)
1992 M. Ronnen, "Joy as a Medium," The Jerusalem Post Magazine, September 11
Aya and Gal, "Zichronot meafrika", Yerushalaim, September 11 (plate)
Ariel - A Review of Arts and Letters in Israel," pp. 63-64 (plates)
1991 Grand Prix International d'Arts Plastiques, exhibition catalogue, no. 58
"At", October, p 79, - (plate)
S. Klasky, Hot Pick, "The Brookline Tab," October 1
J. A. Melamed, "Art in Israel Today"" Published by "World of Art", p.168, (plate)
1990 R. Elowitz, "The Subconscious Garden," The Jerusalem Post Magazine, July 7, pp.12-13.plates
Y. Revach, "Olam bezvai mayim" Globes, July 25 (plate)
D. Kedar, "Pamela Silver ve David Yair", Galeria Mabat, "Al Hamishmar," July 20 (plate)
I. Orbach, "Aquarelle beshnei gishot shonot", Maariv, Tel Aviv, July 27 (plate)
G. Goldfine, "The Jerusalem Post Magazine," July 27
R. Meir, "Pamela Silver" Davar," July 15
1989 "L'Aigle," December, p. 8 (plates)
"Sihot - Dialogue. Israel Journal of Psychotherapy," front and back (cover plates)
Grand Prix International d'Arts Plastiques, exhibition catalogue, p. 14 (plate)
1988 M. Ronnen, "The Jerusalem Post Magazine," 5 February. (plate)
B. Feldman, Painting with Intelligence, "Jewish Chronicle," July 15 (plate)
Beautiful Eyes, Arts Review, London, July 15, p. 489 (plate)
1981 Banai, "Zichronot yaldut bezevai pastel", Maariv, Jerusalem, December 18. ( plate)

2009 Radio Shalom Copenhagen, Interview with Miriam Shekter, September 10 18.30
South African Broadcasting Service (SABC) "Otherwise" with Nancy Richard 13.00 - 14.00 on 6th February
2008 Reshet Bet Interview with Miri Krimilovsky, August 22. 15.45
International Hour on Olympic Fine Art Exhibition Beijing
Kol Yisrael with Steve Linde, September 13 on the Olympic Fine Art Exhibition Beijing
Channel 2 News Israel 23rd May
2006 Reshet Bet Miri Krimilovsky, March exhibition Nora Gallery, Jerusalem
2005 Reshet Bet Interview from China with Miri Krimilovsky, September 30
2004 Israel Television Channel 27, February 22, 'Circles in the Sand'
Israel Radio, cultural Magazine Interview with Yishai Eldar December 2004
Israel Television Channel 5 Jerusalem interview with Pamela Silver
2002 Copenhagen Denmark "radio shalom" interview with Miriam Schecter
1999 Israel Television, Vintrina-Pamela Silver, July 1999
Voice of the Galil with Sarah Friedman July 8
Israel Television, Boker Tov, Channel 2 May
1995 Israel Radio, Interview with Yaron Enosh Channel 2, May, 19
Israel Radio, Channel 2, cultural magazine, June, 1995 Interview with Sarah Manobla,
Radio Zimbabwe, Interview on July, 1995
1992 Israel Radio: Cultural magazine, English program, Jerusalem, September