Garry Titterton

I have a deep empathy with landscapes. Born in the Peak District, the wildness of the moors and the contrasting tranquillity of the valleys have remained with me throughout my life.

This fascination with landscape has been enhanced by living in Japan, China, and South Asia.  Recently the Italian landscape around my Umbrian home echoes that of the Derbyshire and North Staffordshire countryside.

‘Landscape was here long before we were even dreamed. It watched us arrive.’ 

Robert MacFarlane in his book The Wild Places quotes a line from an unknown author:

My work seeks to connect emotionally with the natural world, and especially wild places, which put us and our lives into perspective.

Wallace Stegner argued that “…we need wild places because they remind us of a world beyond the human. Forests, plains, prairies, deserts, mountains: the experience of these landscapes can give people ‘a sense of bigness outside themselves that has now in some way been lost.”

In landscapes and abstract work, I reference the natural world: “It is the frame in which emotions reside, putting a perspective on the infinite complexities of existence.”