Anthony Garratt lives and works in South Devon. He studied at Chelsea College of Art and graduated with a BA (Hons) from Falmouth College of Art. His work ‘High and Low’, which was commissioned to communicate Snowdonia’s mining heritage, won the ‘Arts and Business Award’ in Wales, while his artwork ‘To All At Sea’ featured in both The Guardian and The Spectator newspapers as a ‘Top Ten Outdoor Artwork’. His recent public participation artworks have raised thousands for charitable causes, and he is a member of the Wilderness Art Collective which runs school workshops to encourage a creative relationship with environmental issues. His paintings are held in private and corporate collections internationally.
Anthony’s diverse practice is rooted in a passion for our relationship with the concept of ‘landscape’. His most recent paintings are energetic, plastic and deliberately oversaturated fictions. They have, in part, evolved out of memories of recent travels but are mostly invented spaces that include empty, modernist structures sitting within energetic mark making. Alongside these lively and colourful fictions sit paintings that are quieter, more meditative and organic in their approach. This contrast in style echoes a fascination with the idea of ‘contrast in landscape’ and the global polarity of our experiences in the landscape.