Leslie Gerry’s pandemic project, Lighthouse, a collection of fifteen paintings of lighthouses around Great Britain is up now on his website www.lesliegerryeditions.com. Gerry’s technique is unique. He describes it on his website:

“With a stylus and Wacom tablet, I paint on the computer in Illustrator. Working only with flat areas of colour (CMYK) and no tone, I “cut out” colour shapes with the stylus, arranging them on different layers, creating a collage. In fact, I first began working this way years ago (before developing my 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.”

Leslie Gerry, www.lesliegerryeditions.com

I’ve long been looking at Venice Reflections that Leslie Gerry illustrated but haven’t yet had the opportunity to acquire it. Into the Lagoon from The Old School Press and illustrated by Gerry is part of my library though and I enjoy it thoroughly. Lighthouse looks fantastic as well, and is currently available in three states. Images copyright Leslie Gerry Editions.