Titti Garelli was born in Turin in the year 1949. She continues to live and work there in the present day. She was educated at the Turin Academy of Art, where she studied under the guidance of Sergio Saroni. The arresting quality of Garelli’s work was quickly recognized by publishers and advertising agencies, to whom she supplied art during the early years of her career. Although she was also showing in a few select galleries at this time, it was not until approximately 1990 that she began exhibiting internationally. Garelli continues to work as an illustrator, in addition to teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cuneo.