LEBO
MATCHABA
Artist (Painter) Based in South Africa
If you were searching, you found me.
Her portfolio is not a gallery; it’s a living journal, one that pulses with texture, thought, symbols, and sensation. Some parts are loud. Some are quiet. All are honest.
Lebo Matchaba is a South African contemporary artist whose work is rooted in emotion, energy, and a deep curiosity about the self and the universe. Her creative practice is both a mirror and a journey - a space where bold colour, expressive typography, surreal forms, and abstract textures come together to speak when words fall short.
Lebo creates from a place of feeling rather than formula. Her paintings are often layered with memories, moods, and moments of reflection - each one a kind of visual journal entry. Influenced by the ideas of philosophy and the mysteries of the cosmos, she approaches art as a spiritual language - one that allows her (and those who witness her work) to explore the inner world with honesty and wonder.
Her pieces aren’t designed to be fully explained - they are meant to be felt. Often bright, pattern-rich, and emotionally charged, her art invites you into a dream-space where play, pain, joy, and curiosity all coexist.
Lebo’s portfolio continues to evolve as she explores what it means to be seen, to be true, and to create from the inside out. She’s on a journey of self-discovery - and through her art, she welcomes you to journey too.
LOUD WHISPERS (2025)
A Series by Lebo Matchaba
Welcome to LOUD WHISPERS, a soft rebellion in colour, a series born from instinct, emotion, and the unseen places where memory lingers.
In this body of work, Lebo Matchaba invites us into a world where silence is anything but quiet, where colour doesn't just speak, it sings, screams, laughs, and sighs. Each piece pulses with contradiction: bold yet delicate, cosmic yet grounded, playful yet profound. This is visual language for the soul, a dreamspace where feeling comes first.
Blending abstract expressionism with surreal symbolism, playful typography, and childlike mark-making, LOUD WHISPERS holds nothing back. Here, melting ice creams defy gravity, clouds cradle ladders that lead nowhere (or maybe everywhere), and joy wears its complexity like a crown. There is rebellion in the softness, and freedom in every line.
These works are unfiltered transmissions, nothing over-edited, nothing forced to behave. Each canvas is an act of return: to Lebo’s inner child, to wonder, to truth before language. In this space, she grants herself permission - to play, to ache, to glow unapologetically, to take up space with no need for explanation.
“You are safe now. You can feel it all. You can be it all.”
LOUD WHISPERS isn’t just a series - it’s a spiritual release, a love letter to becoming, and a radiant declaration that art can be both loud and tender, messy and sacred.
These aren’t just paintings.
They’re feelings in form.
They’re truths in colour.
They’re whispers, finally allowed to shout.
The collection feels like memory, like emotion trying to name itself, like a private truth painted loudly.
PANIC, NOW.
Acrylic / 30 cm x 42 / 2025
Happeninings.
Acrylic / 30 cm x 42.0 / 2025
BLOOMING
Acrylic / 30 cm x 42.0 / 2025
Ladder To Nowhere,
Acrylic / 30 cm x 42.0 / 2025
BLOOM!
Acrylic / 30 cm x 42.0 / 2025
FOUND TREASURES
Acrylic / 30 cm x 42.0 / 2025
I REMBER YOU (Vivid)
Acrylic / 30 cm x 42.0 / 2025
Silent PURGE.
Acrylic / 60 x 90 cm / 2025
Luck.
Acrylic / 30 x 42 cm / 2025
Way Home.
Acrylic / 30 x 42 cm / 2025
Inner Voice
Acrylic / 60 x 70 cm / 2025
SISTER PACT
Acrylic / 30 x 42 cm / 2025
All The Feelings
Acrylic / 30 x 42 cm / 2025
In Flow.
Acrylic / 60 x 90 cm / 2025
FIND YOU SOMEDAY
Acrylic / 60 x 90 cm / 2025
THE ICE-CREAM STORY
Acrylic and Pastel / 30 x 45 cm / 2025
STAINS OF LOVE
Acrylic / 30 x 42 cm / 2025