The Joy Of My Life
The Joy Of My Life
The
desire to paint has been with me my whole life. The love of color
and the blending of different hues excite me.The challenge is to see the
subtle differences in color in an object or subject. To push the
color to enhance it, to excite it, thrills me. To see what I have
done and wonder how I did it amazes me. The pleasure to finally find myself
and to express it in my art gives me the greatest joy of my life.
The whole world fades away, and I am wonderfully lost in time. It
is my hope that you share the excitement in my paintings and enjoy how
I express myself in art. Perhaps Robert Henri, the famous art teacher
and author of The Art Spirit, said it best, and I agree, “When the brush
touches the surface, the soul speaks.” Joan Skiver-Levy
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AUTUMN JOY © $2000.00
Oil Medium - Palette Knife Framed
Size 29 X 35 Winner of Best of Show. Oil Pallet knife painting. Glorious
fall scene with water and trees. My favorite time of the year. My art professor
said this looked like it was done by a wild fauve. Sometime I get a little
wild and I love it. Free and easy painting for me. Not a care in the world
when I paint. Wonderfully lost time.
Not For Sale
Study Copy of Original ©
Oil Medium
Framed Size is 28 x 32
Le Pepper © $2,000.00
Oil Medium Framed Size 15x19 PRIZE WINNING AND AWARD WINNING
Rocks and Boards 2 © $1,800.00
Acrylic Medium
Finished Framed Size is
24 x 30
Ready to hang
THE JOURNEY Of Life
The journey of life is a
Doubtful frustrating mystery
Where am I going?
To what end?
Another lesson to learn?
Day after day
Year after year
Perhaps eons after eons
Sometimes lonely and sad
Stumbling on my way
I am like a seeker
A searcher of the unknown
Is this journey here and now
All that matters?
Is it getting to the end
Knowing I’ve done well?
Or will I look back
And be ashamed of my life?
Is loving the only concept to
learn?
Easy to say hard to do
Many are unlovable
Many are unable to love
So sad to miss the joy of loving
To stay safe and never dare
What a waste on our journey of
life
To perhaps learn that love is
all that matters
Joan Skiver- Levy ©
5/18/2003
STUDY OF GOURDS CHARCOAL $100.00
FINISHED FRAMED SIZE 16 X 20
MATTED IN BLACK AND BLACK MENTAL FRAME
STILL LIFE IN CHARCOAL © $150.00
ON LIGHT GREEN PAPER
FRAMED FINISHED SIZE 15 X 18
BLACK MAT WITH BLACK FRAME
Dancing Apples © $1,700.00
Medium Watercolor
24x30
Ready to hang
Matted in very white, white
metal frame and plexiglass
Left Over Paint © $500.00
Oil--Pallett Knife Framed Finished
size is 16 x 18 Ready to hang
Outer Space Blue Berries © $2000.00
Watercolor
Framed Finished Size is 22 x
28
Ready to hang
Matted in very white with
White frame and Glass.
Daisy Cat © Not For Sale
Watercolor Framed Finished Size
Is 9"x 9" Matted In Very White With White Frame And Plexiglass.
Mums © $2000.00
Oil Pallet Knife 29 x 36 Ready
To Hang
Space Berries © $500.00
Oil Medium Finished size 16 x
20 Ready To Hang
Three Trees © $900.00
AWARD WINNING
Oil Medium - Pallet Knife
Finished size 24 x 27
Ready to hang
SOLD $0.00
PRIVATE COLLECTION Not For Sale
THE LATE GRAPE PLANET GRAPE
PAINTING SIZE IS 12" X 16"
A LARGE VERSION 6 FEET X 8 FEET
HANGS AT SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS
COLLEGE IN THE PERMANENT ART
COLLECTION
AWARD WINNING $0.00 Sold
AWARD WINNING $0.00 Sold
AWARD WINNING $0.00 Sold
AWARD WINNING $0.00 Sold
Happiness
What is happiness?
We all have our own dream
Finding someone to love?
To share your life
Living sorrow and joy
That makes up our existence
Perhaps share the lessons
In our children’s lives
I think not I hope not
Happiness is elusive
We look in the wrong places
Maybe we should look inside
To understand the truly marvelous
Unlimited boundaries of the
mind
Everything is there that is needed
A wellspring for the taking
The spirit inside
Knowledge beauty talent
Flowing in and out
Waiting to be discovered
Look inside
You will be astounded
All within your reach
Not somewhere else
Deep in side you
Is all you will ever need.
Joan Skiver-Levy ©
4/20/03
Newly created from our Midwest Fall Pepper Harvest
August 29, 2006
These painting are a result of my visits to our local farmers markets in Southern Illinois. The gorgeous fall crop of bell peppers particular entranced me and I just had to do several paintings and get lost in their beauty. I took the finished paintings back to the farmers so they could see how I interpreted their crops in paint. They all seemed delighted and told me to come back when ever I wanted. I made many good friends there.
Joan Skiver-Levy
Original Art. Capturing the Midwest
fall harvest of
wonderful bell peppers.
Beautiful Beautiful Bell Peppers
1©
Acrylic
Finished Size 21 X 26 Framed
in very white mat and white metal frame
with plexiglass
$1700.00
SOLD
Beautiful Beautiful Bell Peppers
2 ©
Acrylic
Finished Size 21 X 26 Framed
in very white mat and white metal frame
with plexiglass
$1700.00 SOLD
Limited Giclee Prints available
@
$500.00 each of this painting
Beautiful Beautiful Bell Peppers
3 ©
Acrylic
Finished Size 21 X 26 Framed
in very white mat and white metal frame
with plexiglass
$1,700.00
Beautiful Beautiful Bell Peppers
4 ©
Acrylic
Finished Size 21 X 26 Framed
in very white mat and white metal frame
with plexiglass
$1,700.00
Another pepper painting from Midwest Harvest.
Green Bell Peppers ©
Watercolor painting is matted
and framed in very white mental frame.
Finished Size 21 X 26
$1,700.00
Relationships
We Hurt
Then help
We are blissful
Reversing to pain
We love
Only to hate
Powerful master
To weak slave
We attract
Only to push away
Will He
Won’t she
Peculiar
Opposites
Seesawing
Rhythms
Ah!
Human Behavior
Joan Skiver-Levy ©
2/26/04
Green Pears © $1900.00
Acrylic Pallet Knife Finished
Size 19 x 24 As Framed
Green Serenity © $1,500.00
Oil Finished Size 23 x 27 As
Framed
LOVE, IT’S OVER
I waited so long
I thought it would never end
I don’t care anymore
It’s finally done
No more tears
My love is gone
He is not much
I wonder what I saw
I guess I did not
Really see at all
I was blinded by my grief
Not thinking clear
The lessons learned
Take care of me
Love myself first
I am important
No abuse for me
I am special
The pain is over for me
His will never end
History repeats itself
And he never learns
He is the loser not me
Nothing to retrieve for me
I have not lost a thing
Love, its over
Joan Skiver-Levy ©
6/16/2003
Shades of Van Gogh © $1,300.00
Oil - Pallet knife Finished Size
20 x 28 1st Place Winner
JAR IN CHARCOAL © $150.00
ON LIGHT GREEN PAPER
FRAMED FINISHED SIZE 15 X 18
BLACK MAT WITH BLACK FRAME
Women Beware
So dark are his thoughts
Planning his attack
Dominate and destroy
That’s his game
A predator on the prowl
Seeking the next victim
Split personality
Lamb to jackal
Weaving his troubled thoughts
To get even with another one
Warped patterns in his life
And blind in many ways
No love in his heart
A troubled soul
An empty shell
No peace for him
What harm he does
Hurting countless others
Perhaps he’ll pay
For his many deeds
Beware Women
For here he comes
Trying to get
Another one
Joan Skiver-Levy ©
6/5/04
Still Life in Pastels #1©
Pastel
Finished size 24 X 30
$1,200.00
Framed in black mat and black
metal frame with plexiglass
See terms on Page 1
Still Life in Pastels #2©
Pastel
Finished size 24 X 30
$1,200.00
Framed in black mat and black
metal frame with plexiglass
Young Man
Ink
9 x 12
$100.00
Framed in black/white mat and
Silver metal frame with plexiglass
Young Man
Ink
Larger
$125.00
Framed in black/white mat and
Silver metal frame with plexiglass
Landscape
Oil On Paper
16 x16
$225.00
Framed in black mat and black
metal frame with plexiglass
Still Life
Oil On Paper
16 x16
$200.00
Framed in black mat and black
metal frame with plexiglass
Self
Portrait Minus 30 Years and 9 Operations Acrylic Not For Sale
Joy or Sorrow?
We make up our own life
By the choices we take
Are they happy choices?
For others or ourselves?
Should we love what we do?
Do we have commitment?
To ourselves or to others?
What do we owe ourselves?
Love, integrity, productivity?
Inquisitiveness about life?
Discovering our talents?
Teaching and sharing?
How do we treat ourselves?
Are we proud of ourselves?
Do we really listen when others
talk?
Do we really listen with our
brain?
Or do we choose to hear?
Just certain things?
Are we awake to the joy in life?
Or are we putting ourselves
in sorrow?
Do we have choices to make?
Do we let others choose for
us?
What choice will you make?
Joy or Sorrow?
Joan Skiver-Levy ©
2/24/04
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.....Biography
of Joan Skiver-Levy
Joan Skiver-Levy is a 73 year old award winning artist of West Frankfort, Illinois and is a native Southern Illinoisan who has returned home after many years in the Chicago area. She found her considerable artistic talents after she brought up her family. From the time she was a little girl she wanted to be an artist. Joan is now living her dream. She lately has become a poet and a vocalist and sings love songs or jazz at her local coffee house every Friday at lunch time. Finally, at this age realizes that artistic abilities cross over into many aspects of life. She is considered an excellent cook, baker and seamstress. It is her belief that the only limits we have are the ones we put on ourselves. Joan says much of women’s lives have been spent taking care of others, from mates to children to parents and many women never had the opportunity to discover these gift as they put every one else first. She is willing to make a fool of herself to discover things about her, life, and its many wonders. Joan works to leave this world a better place to live in and invites you to do the same. She works to leave some thing behind. Her thoughts are, when we are all gone all that will be left behind of our time is the visual arts, music and writing that we now do. Joan gives you this challenge. You discover your hidden talents and abilities no matter what your age, as we all have some.
Education: Class, 2 years with Artist Helen Van Tempera, Northbrook, Illinois. Class, 3 years with Professor Michael Elvestrom, former Art Chairman. Class, 1 year, with Julia Pfeiffer, Art Chairman, both of Southeastern Illinois College, Harrisburg, Illinois, Class, 1 year, Rend Lake College, Ina, Illinois. Class 2 years, study with Rene Mavigliano, John A. Logan, Carterville, Illinois. Several times Joan attended art camp at the Southern Illinois Art Workshops, Inc. De Bois, Illinois and Pinckneyville, Illinois. She credits Michael Elvestrom for suggesting and encouraging her to paint larger than life. She feels it was a big step into a wonderful art experience and she continues to enjoy painting large very much. She presented a large painting measuring 6’ x 8’ titled “The Late Great Planet Grapes” to Southeastern Illinois College (at her professor’s request.) The painting, which has about one-half bunch of grapes that are the size of basketballs, is now part of the permanent art collection of the college and hangs in the hallway. This is the painting was also shown at the Mitchell Museum in Mt. Vernon, Illinois
She has won numerous awards, such as blue ribbons at the Saline County Fair, Best of Show at Ridgeway Popcorn Days and Equality Salt Festival, and many blue ribbons at different places. Joan was given, Best of The Class and Best of the Show for a photo of her late husband, Earl at the Du Quoin State Fair and the same photo was picked to travel to Disney Land for a special exhibition. She won first place in a competition for a painting of Burnett’s Bank in Eldorado, Illinois, determined by popular vote. Another one of her painting is titled “Les Pepper” and it was selected to be shown for the “Celebrate Southern Illinois” exhibit at John A. Logan. The same painting was also chosen to be in the traveling exhibit to be shown throughout the state. She placed third in 2003 in the mixed media art show of over 125 entries at the John A. Logan Spring Show, for a painting in acrylic of rocks. She placed second in 2004 mixed media art show of over 115 entries at John A. Logan Spring Show, for a water color of Turning Bell Peppers.
Gallery representation: The Aspen Gallery,
Arizona, White Dove, Arizona, Art Lovers Trading Company in Carbondale,
Illinois and on line with Boundless Gallery, Carbondale, Illinois, at:
www.boundlessgallery.com. She also has her own web page at:
www.joanskiverlevy.com.
This busy lady has more interests than her artistic work, however. Before she and her late husband moved here following his retirement from the Skokie Fire Department, she gained considerable renown for her work on the subject of diet as a control for hyperactive and/or learning disabled children. She formed a statewide group to help other parents of disabled children, and this became part of a network across the United States. In connection with this work, she appeared on the Phil Donahue show twice and on the Lee Phillips Television Show in Chicago as well as a few Chicago radio shows. She has lectured extensively on the subject. It is estimated that she reached 80 million people during her work in this field. Following her first appearance on the Donahue show she received 35,000 letters.
Joan still loves to bake probably due to cooking and baking all naturally for her son Russell. A few years ago in a borrowed kitchen at Pierce Hospital in Eldorado, IL, she made and baked an eight-pound loaf of challah, Jewish egg bread. By the way, this large loaf took the same amount of time to bake as her regular-sized loaf of bread. When it came out of the oven and while still warm, it was torn apart and put on the patient’s dinner trays that day and the rest was devoured by the kitchen staff with butter, cream cheese and jam, which, she says, all happened to be natural.
Joan now does in client home computer tutoring as a sideline business. She lately added another overwhelming task to her history of: writing a legal brief to assist her now totally disabled son. The Appellate Court in Chicago accepted the brief. Many people helped her, and she will be eternally grateful, especially Harris Mosley at the John A. Logan’s writing center.
Group Shows:
· The Mitchell Museum in Mt. Vernon,
IL, 1982
· “Celebrate Southern Illinois” exhibit
at John A. Logan College, Carterville, IL 1983
· Tenth Biennial Arts in Celebration
Exhibition ‘Looking at Southern Illinois’, Fanner Hall Museum, SIU, Carbondale,
IL, 2006
One woman exhibitions at:
· Longbranch Coffee House in Carbondale,
IL, 2004
· Mungo’s Jerry’s Coffee House in Murphysboro,
IL, 2005
· The Buzz in Benton, IL, 2005
· Common Grounds Coffee House, Carbondale,
IL 2006
· Dunn Richmond Center, SIU Carbondale,
IL, March and April, 2006
· Longbranch Coffeehouse, Carbondale,
IL, 2006
· Perk Place Coffee House, West Frankfort,
IL,2006
· Carbondale Civic Center, Carbondale,
IL, 2006
· Southeastern Illinois College, Harrisburg,
IL,2006/2007
· Southern Illinois University, Carbondale,
IL. The University Museum, Faner Hall, Art Atrium, August 20 through October
26, 2007. Reception September 7th – 4- 7 with piano by Mary Ann Barnett.
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From, Tony Johansen www.tonyjohansen.com
"I think your art is like your personality - direct, to the point, friendly, all good stuff."
Hope your day is wonderful Tony
I believe that your work is strong,
inventive, and vibrant. It seems you take pleasure in those large images
of bright colored objects...which could be "fruit" or "vegetables."
Your works are more than illustrative as they are painterly and personal...that
is a big difference.
Professor Michael David Elvestrom.
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