Autumn Into Winter Limited Edition Book
To accompany my exhibition “Autumn Into Winter: Impressions of Digley” at Nowhere in Holmfirth, I have produced a book featuring the artwork on display.
The book is now available to preorder from my website, or from Sunday 6 July exclusively from Nowhere during Holmfirth Artweek.
My “Autumn Into Winter” exhibition runs until 30 August.
Preview Evening
Sunday 5 July, 6pm - 9pm
Until 30 August
Wednesday to Sunday
Artweek Fringe Venue No.11
8 Norridge Bottom Holmfirth HD9 7BB
“Growing up in Honley, Digley was a playground for me and my school friends. Autumn was a time for adventuring in the woods and old ruins; winter for sledging down the snow-laden hillsides, gullies, cloughs, and lanes. I didn’t pay much attention to the landscapes back then, I only knew when it was warm or cold, wet or snowy. Inspired by the Impressionists, this return to Digley is a celebration of the changing landscape throughout autumn and winter.” Fritz Fitton
Digley Reservoir was the location of many childhood ramblings for Fritz Fitton, who has seen the area and its seasons change over the decades. This new exhibition explores familiar paths and moorlands, observing the landscape’s transformation from autumn into winter, making the gradual gait of the seasons into something that the viewer can stride through themselves.
As the warm colours of autumn give way to the palette of winter, this time can often seem oppressively gloomy, but this can make the ever-changing light and colour of these seasons all the more striking. By working with pen, ink and homemade tools to quickly capture the essence of a scene, Fritz sketches a snapshot that is then developed later at the studio.
Walking through the woods in autumn can be inspiring, with the ephemeral golden light of the shortening days serving as a bright yet melancholy prelude to winter. While still hospitable to the rambling artist, the chill of a late autumn breeze bears a premonition of the cold to come.
Winter is where plein air painters fear to tread, with freezing temperatures and hazardous conditions making any excursion a battle against the elements, so works done in the field are all the more rare. As the climate shifts and winters become warmer, the deep snows of the past can be forgotten; these drawings and paintings freeze these moments in time, saving snowscapes for the future.