About the Book:

New York Reflections is the result of an intense three week visit to New York in May 2013 to observe, sketch and gather reference material. These paintings, full of colour, light and shadows are his observations and reflect a very personal view of the city. An enormous publication with 24 powerful colour plates dominating a 60 x 76 cm (22 x 30 inches) sheet. The text is made up of extracts from Jan Morris’ book Manhattan '45. 

Standard Edition: 55 copies are case bound with a cloth quarter binding in a cloth covered solander box, inlaid with full colour printed metal panels.

About the Artist:

Leslie Gerry's principal medium is the artist's book, from which he also produces limited edition prints. He chooses an unfamiliar place, spends 2-3 weeks of discovery, walking around, taking reference photos and sketching. 

Once back in the studio, he spends a year painting. He will “cut out” colour shapes with the stylus, arranging them on different layers, creating a collage. 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 are printed directly from the computer onto a mould-made paper, using a flat-bed UV inkjet printer. The resulting prints are then bound together into a beautiful artist's book, that takes the reader through his impression on a new city.