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