Artist Bio

Szilvia Kismates is a contemporary painter whose work explores light, memory, and the quiet dialogue between architecture and nature. Working primarily in oil, she builds richly textured landscapes through layered impasto and meticulous pointillist mark-making, allowing surfaces to carry both physical depth and symbolic resonance.

Drawing inspiration from classical landscape traditions and architectural clarity, her paintings reimagine real and imagined places as contemplative spaces — where light becomes a bridge between the visible and the unseen. Her process is slow and intuitive, often unfolding over extended periods, with repeated revisions that mirror themes of transformation and becoming.

Szilvia’s work invites the viewer into moments of stillness and reflection, offering landscapes not as fixed locations, but as inner territories shaped by experience, memory, and light.

She lives and works in the UK.