Christa McCann-Silver is a British artist working from her studio on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales, where the coastal landscape provides a constant source of inspiration.

A full-time professional artist with a First Class BA Honours in Fine Art and fifteen years in art education, Christa specialises in minimal abstract watercolours and graphite drawings rooted in Japanese Zen aesthetics - particularly the principles of Wabi-Sabi and Shibui.

Her work celebrates imperfect beauty: the quiet, the understated, and the complexity found within simplicity. Working on the finest handmade Oriental and watercolour papers with artist-grade mineral pigments, platinum, and graphite, Christa has developed her own distinctive process - Pigment Shifts - in which she guides and responds to the behaviour of pigmented water as it moves through paper fibres, embracing the serendipitous results that follow.

The outcome is a body of work that is meditative, material-rich,
and deeply considered.