Artist Pamela Silver was born into a Jewish family in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1948, and currently lives and works in Jerusalem, Israel. She graduated from the University of Cape Town and produces oils, watercolours, etchings and monotypes. Her most recent exhibition was at the Irma Stern Museum Cape Town in 2018. Her work is in public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Museu de Ague da Epal, Lisbon; Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo; National Gallery in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; The Israel Museum; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.