About Silvana Gorgiev

Some artists choose their path. Others are chosen by it.
Silvana Gorgiev's relationship with art began in childhood — an innate talent that never left her, even as life took her through different creative disciplines.
Born in NSW and now Melbourne-based, she spent years working as a digital artist before answering the deeper call of paint, canvas and the physical world.
That journey led her somewhere unexpected: Byzantine art.
For five years, she immersed herself in one of the most demanding and spiritually rigorous artistic traditions in the world — a discipline built on sacred geometry, symbolic language, gold leaf and devotional precision.
It was a profound education in what art can carry beyond the merely beautiful. When she finally returned to painting freely, everything had changed. The Byzantine years hadn't interrupted her voice — they had deepened it immeasurably.
Silvana's influences are as rich and layered as her canvases. The Dutch Golden Age masters taught her the drama of light against darkness and the devotional power of the still life. The Impressionists gave her permission to feel colour as emotion rather than fact — to let a brushstroke carry joy, melancholy or wonder in a single gesture. And in the refined elegance and contemplative beauty of Oriental art, she has found a new horizon — one she is only beginning to explore, and whose influence will increasingly find its way into future works.
Today, Silvana's work sits at the intersection of classical tradition and contemporary feeling. Her florals are not simply arrangements — they are portraits of memory, of the people she loves, of time passing and beauty persisting. Her landscapes hold the particular quality of light that only someone who has truly looked can capture. Her symbolic language — the recurring pomegranates, the gold, the abundance — speaks of heritage, family and the sacred hidden inside the everyday. Working across oil, acrylic, ink and gold leaf, Silvana moves fluently between the intimate and the monumental, the dark and the luminous, the classical and the joyful. Each collection is a chapter in an ongoing story about family, faith, memory and the redemptive power of beauty.
Her work on canvas is held in private collections across Australia and Europe.
Her Byzantine iconography can be seen in Orthodox churches in Melbourne and private collections.