AN exhibition of Hampshire inspired photographs taken by a Southampton man is opening in Los Angeles in the new year.

The exhibition, entitled Terra Sylva, was put together by Martin Cox and draws on landscapes from his hometown of Southampton.

Terra Sylva, which opens on January 5, takes Otterbourne Park Wood and the bordering parkland around the estate where Issac Newton’s once lived as a cypher to explore memory and forgetting.

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Martin explained: “On a visit home to England early this year to assist my ailing Mum, it was to these familiar ancient landscapes that I would retreat each winter morning.

“With my old film camera in hand, as the morning mist lingered – I’d try to capture this stillness and mood of forgetting among the trees, some of which have entered the late stages of their life cycle.”

Martin said that he is excited for the start of the exhibit, saying: “It is my first chance to put all the prints from Terra Sylva up in one exhibition and to have people come and see them.

“I launched them online in December as my new winter print photo release, but there’s nothing like actually seeing the prints in person.

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“It feels very personal bringing landscapes familiar to me from my youth to a Los Angeles and international audience.

“I once brought a show of my California desert imagery to the Groucho Club in Soho, so this is the reverse. I am really happy to now bring some of the atmosphere of Hampshire to Los Angeles.”

Speaking about his favourite part of the exhibition, Martin continued: “Well, I called it Terra Sylva – literally earth/trees in Latin – I was thinking about the age of the landscapes and in Otterbourne Park Wood there is evidence of the Roman road linking the coast and Winchester - this gave me the idea for the title in Latin.

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“I wanted to capture the atmosphere and feelings of these two places, namely in Cranbury Park and Otterbourne Park Wood.

“I am most intrigued by the contrast and connection between these two spaces and how the trees tell stories and describe the feeling tone, to capture an emotion.”

Martin’s prints will go up for display at Latitude for Art in Echo Park for the entirety of January.

More information about Martin can be found at his website martincox.com.