Artist and designer Leslie Gerry creates beautiful handmade limited edition books which and are represented in numerous Special Collections worldwide.

Painting on the computer with a stylus and Wacom tablet, he works only with flat areas of colour and no tone. He “cuts out” colour shapes with the stylus, arranging them on different layers, creating a kind of collage. In fact, he first began working this way years ago (before developing his computer skills)  by cutting out sheets of coloured paper with scissors, similar to the way Matisse created his paper cut-outs. Matisse described it as “drawing with colour”.  The paintings end up as digital files; vector images which can be reduced or enlarged to any size. Therefore there is no scanning, the files can be printed directly from the computer onto a mould-made paper using a flat-bed UV inkjet printer.  For the text in his books he likes to complement his images with a writer’s account of what he has seen so as to present two independent views of the same subject.  His limited editions have over the years gathered multiple awards and admiration.

Each of his paintings is also offered as a signed limited edition giclée print on mould-made paper.  A large 1.2 m wide unique proof is also available printed onto a metal panel.