Behind the name Kezleigh is artist Amy Merritt, a Toronto-based creator working between digital media and lived experience.
Her practice began as a way to preserve memory — layering digital imagery and printing it onto acrylic glass — but has evolved into a reflection of the labor that sustains art itself. Each work explores the tension between endurance and fragility, permanence and change, revealing how emotion, time, and repetition shape perception.

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.

Every image is hand-built and intuitively composed, drawn from personal photography, custom digital paintbrushes, collage, and digital manipulation — never generated by AI. 

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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 within the contemporary art landscape.