Overview
I am interested in the way memory informs image making. I draw from a personal stock of impressions to make sense of them through painting. My early years as a child spent in South America and Southern California feed into my use of bold colour, as well as subjects that centre around water and the ocean.
– Ashley Amery is a San Diego born, London-based artist.   Her practice draws upon line and pattern making as a means of investigation. Ashley works on paper in fine detail to create beautiful paintings full of botanical and abstract forms. The process of revisiting a piece many times and allowing it to build organically is essential to her practice. She uses gouache paint, a medium that has been associated with picture making for hundreds of years. Gouache creates a unique opaque surface that is perfect for weaving together pattern and form.  

The Ashley Amery paintings are wonderful – they utterly lift my spirits. I am particularly drawn to the flow of water in some of them, and the combined sense of motion and lightness and joy of the natural world. They really resonate with some of what I love and value most in the world. Some capture the joy and wonder of our own experiences on pristine coral reefs, moreso than any photograph, film or painting I’ve ever seen. And certainly not literally, but instead enriching them with human spirit.' 

- Marvin Wickens

Works
  • American-born, London-based artist Ashley Amery painting of greenery and flowers oil on linen of Rewilding
    Rewilding, 2024
  • Ashley Amery, Jungle and Beach, 2024
    Jungle and Beach, 2024
  • Ashley Amery, Waterfall with sun and lemons, 2024
    Waterfall with sun and lemons, 2024
  • Ashley Amery, Spring Water Flow, 2024
    Spring Water Flow, 2024
  • Ashley Amery, Pink Kelp Forest, 2024
    Pink Kelp Forest, 2024
  • Ashley Amery, Dancing Rainforest, 2024
    Dancing Rainforest, 2024
  • Ashley Amery, Lemon Waterfall, 2024
    Lemon Waterfall, 2024
  • Ashley Amery, Diving Through, 2024
    Diving Through, 2024
  • Ashley Amery, Joining Streams, 2024
    Joining Streams, 2024
  • Ashley Amery, Two Waterfalls, 2024
    Two Waterfalls, 2024
  • Ashley Amery, Glowing Forest, 2024
    Glowing Forest, 2024
  • Ashley Amery, Pale Sun Waterfall, 2022
    Pale Sun Waterfall, 2022
  • London based visual artist botanical bright colourful illustration in guache ion paper in series "the end of all our exploring"
    Transcendent Waterfall, 2023
  • London based visual artist botanical bright colourful illustration in guache ion paper in series "the end of all our exploring"
    Pink Waterfall, 2023
  • Ashley Amery, Waterfall in Desert Hillside with botanicals
    Desert Hillside Waterfall, 2023
  • A painting of Blue botanical plants surrounding a small group of pink plants by London-based artist Ashley Amery entitled Evolutionary Forms
    Evolutionary Forms, 2023
  • Ashley Amery, Studio Shot, 2023
    Studio Shot, 2023
  • Ashley Amery London based visual artist botanical bright colourful illustration in guache ion paper in series "the end of all our exploring"
    Intertidal, 2022
  • Ashley Amery, Exhibition Installation Shot, 2023
    Exhibition Installation Shot, 2023
  • Ashley Amery London based visual artist botanical bright colourful illustration in guache ion paper in series "the end of all our exploring"
    Summer Waterfall, 2023
  • Ashley Amery, Painting on Window - 2023 Exhibition, 2023
    Painting on Window - 2023 Exhibition, 2023
  • Ashley Amery London based visual artist botanical bright colourful illustration in guache ion paper in series "the end of all our exploring"
    Through to the Sun, 2023
  • Ashley Amery London based visual artist botanical bright colourful illustration in guache ion paper in series "the end of all our exploring"
    Ocean Floor, 2022
  • London based visual artist botanical bright colourful illustration in guache ion paper in series "the end of all our exploring"
    Diving Places, 2023
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