Isabel is primarily a maker, devoted to process, play, engagement and stories. She is an inter- disciplinary artist (painter, singer songwriter, filmmaker and arts based occupational therapist). Her first love was visual arts. She pursued Fine Arts studies at York University, later gaining a degree in Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of Toronto . For most of her career she developed and provided accessible and restorative community art programming for adults living with mental health and addiction issues. Only in the last couple of years she has returned to her visual arts practice as she actively emerges as a painter. The unexpected death of her sister in 2022 had left her with the realization of the preciousness of time and instilled the desire to return full heartedly back to painting. All her life and creative experiences feed into her painting practice today. In 2018, she completed two art residencies: Gilbraltor Point Artscape, on Toronto Island and in Borgo a Moazzano, Italy. She has participated in juried and group shows. Recently Isabel paints all the things she loves in her neighbourhood  where she lives in Toronto. She paints both plein air and from her own photographs that she shoots on her iphone as references. She is fascinated by the diverse and wild gardens, the parks, the people, the old storefronts. She wants to archive and document through painting what she fears will be lost or no longer accessible, nor equitable. Fryszberg’s work is characterized by a strong appreciation for nature, colour, and landscape. She likes to change the light in her work and find ways to capture it. She takes a lyrical and playful approach, dancing between the seen and unseen, realism and abstraction, colour and light.  She draws from the post impressionists, Twentieth to Twenty-First century artists, music, and everyday life. Her work has been sold to private collectors.

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EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

• May 31 - June 1, 2025 - Riverdale ArtWalk, Jimmie Simpson Park, 872 Queen Street East, Toronto

• Dec 7, 2021 - The Christie Pits Artists Show, 1081 Bathurst, Toronto

• May 20, 2021 - The Art of Resilience, The Ontario Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

• November 8, 2018 - Why the @#&! do you Paint?, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Curated by Spencer J Harrison and Lukus Toane

• September 29, 2018 - One Path - W-O-M-A-N, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Spadina Museum

• August 2018 - Residency in Borgo a Moazzano, Italy