Shevy Levy is a noted Canadian artist who visualizes her memories as contemporary abstract paintings using bold gestural brushstrokes and vibrant color pallets. Shevy began her art career in 1975. An Israeli native, she met and studied with master artists Moshe Gershoni and Raffi Lavie who significantly influenced Shevy’s work. In 1993 Shevy immigrated to Canada where she very quickly became part of the art community. Shevy studied at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, working on and developing her style. She started as a portrait painter as she is fasci-nated by people’s facial expressions and behaviours, but later felt an urge for simplicity and de-cided to focus on how we share ideas and thoughts without directly depicting them on canvas. Taking inspiration from nature, and lyrics, Shevy’s effervescent, expressive works are rendered with confident brush strokes in colour against muted backgrounds. The work, which marries ab-straction and expressionism, mirrors the sweetness and inevitable pain of the ardor of young romance, which, like the springtime, blooms with vigor but soon betrays its fragility. Shevy’s work recognises that with change and loss comes a darkness. But it also affirms the need to struggle to live in the moments, however fleeting, of beauty and light. Her pieces look simple on the outside, but they are more complex and dynamic on the inside. Shevy’s work invites the viewer to create a meaning for the painting based on their personal experiences and memories - so they might experience them more fully in their own life. Shevy Levy is currently represented by Cityscape Gallery in Vancouver and Singulart Gallery and has also been exhibited at numerous Canadian exhibitions. Shevy’s work has been acquired by a number of private collectors in North America and around the world