Shiloha Levi

Shiloha, who lives and paints in the Saxon town of Winchcombe in the Cotswolds, has a passion for oil painting, but also loves textiles and theatre. She did her Foundation degree in Art and Design and HND in Theatre and Costume at Croydon College before going on to work freelance in theatre and film as a costume dyer and enhancer. She also worked for several years with English National Opera, where she was head of the dye department.

Shiloha inherited a love for portraiture from her great grandfather Reinhold Thiele, himself a portraitist, Boer war press photographer and pioneer of flash photography whose photographs can be seen at the National Portrait Gallery. She herself has exhibited at several galleries and spaces in London and more recently at Gloucester and Tewksbury Cathedrals, Sudeley Castle, Broadway Arts Festival and the Gardens Gallery, Cheltenham, twice winning second prize at the Cheltenham Christian Arts Festivals, judged by PJ Crook MBE, and also first prize at Art in the City Gloucester, 2018.

Not only has the Covid pandemic caused Shiloha to be absorbed with painting some of the glorious Cotswold scenery experienced on her lockdown walks, and turning these images into cards, it has also driven her to paint portraits of her local Knit and Natter group. For many of the group, isolation and loneliness have been a real issue. She will be showing the portraits at the local museum later this year to raise awareness for Age UK Gloucestershire.

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