Leo AmeryLeo Amery born in 1956 in London, has been working in stained glass for twenty years, the last ten of which from his farmhouse in South West France. His commissions can be found as far afield as Australia and the USA, and his exhibitions in England, Denmark, Switzerland and France.
Colour is rigourously used to give harmony and unity to each piece, whilst creaing the impression of spontaneity. Amery's style moves from construction to abstraction with implicit reference to natural order, and to forms in nature, particularly wind, sun, water and sound, some of the later pieces moving overtly to a visualisation of musical composition.
Displaying the stained glassMost of the pieces are displaced a few centimetres from the wall on which they are hung and lit from the front, thus allowing the glass to cast a tri-dimensional coloured shadow on the wall behind. Leo Amery discovered this technique about five years ago, and calls it stained glass relief; his pieces with their free forms, manage to present the condition of stained glass despite an artificial light system whilst being equally convincing as wall sculptures. |
Amery makes glass and lead the centre of his pieces - the surface movement of the glass, its transparency and opacity, its passage of light
and its reflective qualities are bound by the suppleness and graphic qualities of the lead.Exhibitions | |
1999 |
Musée Labenche, Brive La Gaillarde, France |
1998 |
Galerie Orly, Bâle, Switzerland |
1996 |
Février Création, Brive, France |
1995 |
UBS, Gstaad, Switzerland |
1994 |
Février Création, Brive, France |
1993 |
Gruttli Centre, Geneva, Switzerland |
1993 |
Espace Saint-Cyprien, Toulouse, France |
1992 |
Barbican Centre, London, England |
1989 |
Aalborghallen, Aalborg, Denmark |
1988 |
Black Bull Gallery, London, England |
1986 |
Royal Institute British Architects, London, England |
1985 |
British Society Master Glass Painters, London, England |
1984 |
Kingsgate Gallery, London, England |
1983 |
Kingsgate Gallery, London, England |