George Melly writes about seeing Silvy's work.

While staying with my friends Susanna and Nicky Johnston , I noticed, in my bathroom, a picture which struck me of superior quality.It was of a nude lying on a bed reading her book.The use of paint was both lively and somehow moving.When I went downstairs asked Susanna who it was by and she told me her daughter, Silvy .

Nothing more satisfactory than to praise a painting without knowing there was a connection between the people you are staying with and their daughter. A day or so later we went over to Silvy’s studio where she was preparing an exhibition of her work. I discovered that excellent as the painting was she had many more strings to her bow. She had produced works made entirely of feathers and especially as circles ; extraordinarily decorative and requiring wonderful dexterity. She also takes fine photographs. Her drawings show enormous confidence and agility and particularly (I thought) pictures of the fields thereabouts where they cover them with plastic to protect the seeds. Silvy has done several very impressive large canvases of such a landscape, done in so illusary a way that if there is a dip in the landscape one almost has the illusion of having to slow up so as not to have to fall into it. She also has amazing children and so on. In fact I should imagine a golden future.