[1] In the beginning he was interested in Cubism, Expressionism and Surrealism but discarded them later for a more naturalistic style,[2] although within it is range was wide.

[1] His drawings have appeared on television programmes including the series of Magnolia Street, the saga of Jewish life in Hightown and Cheetham by Louis Golding.

[6] He was famous for provokante Jewish-themed works, such as the crucifixion which shows a religious Jewish man nailed to the cross[7] painted in 1942.

[11] The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants was born in Hightown, Manchester, the area immortalized by the Jewish writer Louis Golding in his best-selling novel Magnolia Street (1932), which Levy later adapted as a radio play.

His father was the beadle at the Great Synagogue, Cheetham Hill and Levy attended the local Jews’ Free School, before studying.