[3] She held a solo exhibition in Paris, in the Cultural Centre Edmond Rostand, Rueil-Malmaison in 1997.
In the spring of 1999 she was commissioned by Downside Abbey to paint the Icon of St Benedict, Wells.
At the beginning of 2000 Silvia worked as an artist-in-residence at Wells Cathedral with a commission to paint the Fourteen Stations of the Cross as a project for the Millennium.
In the same year she was married, in Wells Cathedral, to Simon Potter, a house master at Downside School, Somerset.
[4][2] She works in the traditional technique of icon painting - egg tempera on wood.