About
Leat Silvera (b. Los Angeles) is a painter working in oil. She received a BA in Art and Architecture from UCLA and has studied with Jeremy Lipking. Her work holds single moments still — layers of light, color, and open gesture that ask the viewer to be present.
Recent projects include the Hostage Square mural in Tel Aviv (2025), created as lead artist of a community mural, and selection as a semifinalist in The People's Artist (The Art of Elysium, 2026) from a national field of more than 250,000 entries.
She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Artist Statement
I paint moments — a split second, held still long enough to enter and feel.
For most of our lives we are somewhere else: replaying the past, bracing for the future. Once in a while the constraints break open and we are simply here. I believe that is where the sacred lives. The angels that move through my canvases are not about religion — they are what a moment of true presence feels like, left open, so that whatever you carry completes them.
More than anything, I hope my paintings create a place where people can pause — even for a single breath — connect, and know they are never alone.