"Her works reach beyond the representation of natural appearence and atmosphere. She doesn't simply portray this or that botanical specimen but re-creates and transmits what truly exist in it. Many of her works, though portrayed artistically, are imbued with an extraordinary quality that it almost ethereal. It is as if the realism of this artist were able to grasp, not only life's surface, but a fragment of its own soul.

Sylvia Amélia being extremely linked to the model in which she establishes herself is equally faithful to texture and natural colours. She attains a high artist level for she transcends the limits of documentation. Her visual focus is uniqueand typifies her style. The intensity of colours, the elegant compositions and the awe present in her work grasp the beauty, vigour and diversity of nature. By means of her painting one feels touched by the atmosphere and its mysteries gain shape. There is a visionary apprehension of the world in which we live.

The sensitiveness that generates her work conceives man and nature not as opposed to each other, but complementary and art being the result of such an union. According to this view, sacredness is not only a celestial virtue, but an intrinsic part of the natural kingdom. It is an celebration to mastery and to aesthestics.

She knows very well that to reproduce and orchid, for example, there is something subtle to grasp, defined by few and felt da many. Her art goes beyond the simple scientific illustration, reaches the hidden masked essence, and overcomes the external appearence, presenting its distant content.

Sylvia Amélia maiore than a documentarist, is an interpreter - an inspired interpreter."

"Whoever has seen a painter at work knows how he uses his hands, the tactile exercise, the haptic sence of a task that demands, more that the manual skill, the capacity to touch, feel the working instruments, the materials, in short, everything that is corporal.

I think this may be the best way to present Sylvia Amélia de Hungria de Machado's art.