2.09.2010 Print

ISA LEVY MA Isa Levy lives in Highgate, London. The passionate and primal energy of her paintings has attracted collectors from the USA, Finland, France, Italy and her native homeland, Cardiff. Isa Levy is the niece of the late art critic and art writer, Mervyn Levy. Studies : Recipient of an award for part-time studies at the Slade School of Fine Art. (1995/6) Publications : Artists and Illustrators ( Member Prize of the Month July 1996 ) Galleries : Llewellyn Alexander, London ( Not the Royal Academy ) (1998, 2003) Chalk Farm Gallery , London, Highgate Fine Art, London, Islington Arts Factory, London, Albany Gallery, Cardiff (1996/2003) East Meets West Finalist - 'La Galleria' - London (2013) Inside Out / Outside In - Quaker Women Artists (2014) St. Martin-in-the-Fields. London Solo Exhibitions : Bromley Arts Centre , Quaker Gallery, St.Martin's Lane, Friends House, London Lauderdale House, Highgate, London (1996/2005) London Jewish Museum of Art, Ben Uri Fortnight of Solo Artists (2006) International : Dallas, Paris, New York, Miami (1998/2001) Studies: MA in Intergrative Arts Psychotherapy (2005/2010) Recently published my memoir Conversations with a Blank Canvas - available on Amazon Artist's Statement | ISA LEVY Painting is the vehicle which makes my language possible ! I am inspired by moments of joy, sadness, beauty or an intangible yearning, a reaching need to express inner emotional feelings ! The process is my real joy ! The immediate sensuality of paint onto a blank white canvas excites me ! Spreading, sculpting the paint, the smell, the colours and textures blending, seeping, bleeding into each other. Shapes appearing with the rhythm of emotion! Then I follow the painting's development like a servant follows its mistress, breathing the painting to life ! I can be inspired from within or an external inspiration and that being so my subject range is varied and unusual. I am interested in creating a full and whole expression with each new canvas ! So each is a complete world in itself, rarely part of a series, although in the passing of time I can see I can see how some paintings can be grouped together ! When a painting is complete I have a new conversation with it.