Behind the name Kezleigh is artist Amy Merritt, a Toronto-based creator working in digital paint. Kezleigh explores the pulse between human touch and technological rhythm, a tension central to her practice. Her acrylic glass works merge digital precision with emotional intuition, transforming colour and shape into acts of remembrance. 

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Using digital manipulation, photography, collage, and custom digital paintbrushes (never generated by AI), she UV-laser prints images that use machinery, yet remain deeply human. Technology, in her hands, becomes a conduit for feeling rather than its erasure, blurring the divide between maker and machine, revealing a poetics of endurance where emotion is not lost to automation, but quietly reborn through it.

 

Her pieces are often site-specific, designed to harmonize seamlessly with their surroundings, shifting in light and atmosphere to create an ever-changing dialogue between art and environment.

 

Kezleigh’s work has gained growing recognition within the contemporary art scene. She was a featured artist at The Artist Project in Toronto, where she received the Gladstone House Award, and has exhibited at Arta Gallery, Hazelton Fine Art Galleries, Propeller Art Gallery, and Gallery 1313.

 

Her work continues to reach audiences both nationally and internationally, earning recognition for its emotional depth and quiet strength.