"Since I was eight years old, I’ have wanted to paint.  I started art classes at 13 and never stopped.   I believe each person possesses a unique response to life and that it can be expressed in many ways, one of which is Art.  My creative method is to allow whatever I feel to rise to the surface and be expressed in my artwork.  I watch the painting form and coalesce on the canvas.  Without consciously drawing and designing, I paint in a kind of a trance. For about three years, my artwork has focused on Rubenesque women pursuing their fantasies as a part of normal life.    Recently, I have begun a lot of life drawing again.  I thrill to the excitement of creating, and look forward to going wherever it leads me.  My painting is my personal adventure, my contribution to the world and what makes my life interesting."

Jaynee Levy-Polis is a classically-trained artist with a BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and an M.Ed. She has been exhibiting her paintings since 1968.  Her work has been included in many galleries and exhibits, including the Tzigane Invitational Exhibit at the Resurgam Gallery in Baltimore, and the High Wire Gallery, Synapses Gallery, Fetishes Gallery, CCC Gallery, The Art Place, DiVinci Art Alliance, Aslan Gallery and Ebullience Gallery, all in Philadelphia, Pa. She is affiliated with Mother Artists, The Art Place in Philadelphia, Mountainesque Gallery in Alberta, Canada and Tzigane Fine Arts in Havre de Grace, Maryland. On-line, she is featured on About.Com's New York East Village exhibit, Gender Blur, LibidoArt's Classic Gallery and many others. Jaynee was February's Philly Art World's Artist of the Month and the Philadelphia City Paper's Critic's Choice for her exhibit in November, 1999 at the Fetishes Art Gallery. She was awarded the Hannah Price Award in 1994, the Elizabeth Simon Purchase Prize 1988, and the Griff Award in 2001.