Ashley Amery
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
- Rewilding, 2024
- Jungle and Beach, 2024
- Waterfall with sun and lemons, 2024
- Spring Water Flow, 2024
- Pink Kelp Forest, 2024
- Dancing Rainforest, 2024
- Lemon Waterfall, 2024
- Diving Through, 2024
- Joining Streams, 2024
- Two Waterfalls, 2024
- Glowing Forest, 2024
- Pale Sun Waterfall, 2022
- Transcendent Waterfall, 2023
- Pink Waterfall, 2023
- Desert Hillside Waterfall, 2023
- Evolutionary Forms, 2023
- Studio Shot, 2023
- Intertidal, 2022
- Exhibition Installation Shot, 2023
- Summer Waterfall, 2023
- Painting on Window - 2023 Exhibition, 2023
- Through to the Sun, 2023
- Ocean Floor, 2022
- Diving Places, 2023
Exhibitions
the end of all our exploring
Ashley Amery7 October - 12 November 2023LondonThe Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents the end of all our exploring , the second solo exhibition at the gallery by American-born, London-based artist Ashley Amery. In her new body of work, Amery creates large-scale gouache paintings of lush, imaginary landscapes, dense with colour, light, flowing water, and botanical forms....Read moreWandering Places
Ashley Amery30 January - 27 February 2021LondonWandering Places is Ashley Amery's first solo exhibition at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London.Read more
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