Hope by Silvia Pastore Painting

This image came to me in a dream after seeing on television people crammed in tiny and fragile boats crossing the Channel. Since time immemorial people have been migrating In search of lands that could nourish and sustain them and their families. When the Land and the environment can`t offer the conditions for survival, the hope for a better life pushes them to search for new places. Silvia has a fine art degree from Central School of Art and Design, London and has studied printmaking. For the last 40 years she has worked extensively in oil, watercolour and pastel. For several years Silvia was a member of the Society for Art of Imagination and won the Watercolour Prize in 2002 at the Gallery, Cork Street, London. Since 2006 her paintings have been part of the Bridgeman Art Library, a leading world archive of art images. Since 2011 Silvia's paintings have been regularly selected by the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.