I chose to include Alexandra Levasseur’s work not only for it’s striking beauty and her gifted ability but also for her combination of illustration and fine art to present her subjects so well.  Her paintings present dream like damsels in distress that have come forth from Alexandra’s imagination out of her childhood memories and loneliness... 

'This project is a therapeutic investigation that involves 35 drawings made with acrylic painting and colored pencils on paper - 11X14” - each one done in one day aproximately, more or less consecutives. My objective is to explore the spontaneity and inspiration that every morning gives me, either by environmental or emotional circumstances - states of mind, energy, desires, etc...

Alexandra Levasseur was born 1982, Shawinigan, Qc, Canada and currently lives and creates her narrative illustrations in Montreal. She received aBachelor in Fine Arts and Graphic Design at the University of Costa Rica, and priot to that got her postgraduate studies in Creative Illustration and Visual Communication at EINA School of Art and Design, Barcelona, Spain, 2008. Her work breathes emotional transcendence from a very personal palette.

Alexandra Levasseur was born 1982, Shawinigan, Qc, Canada and currently lives and creates her narrative illustrations in Montreal. She received aBachelor in Fine Arts and Graphic Design at the University of Costa Rica, and priot to that got her postgraduate studies in Creative Illustration and Visual Communication at EINA School of Art and Design, Barcelona, Spain, 2008. Her work breathes emotional transcendence from a very personal palette.