‘He made me feel I didn’t need to fit in’: readers’ tributes to David Lynch – and their most Lynchian photograph

‘A unique and uncompromising artist’ … David Lynch. Photograph: Twin Peaks Productions

‘My mother shooed me away so she could watch Twin Peaks’

I live in a forested part of the UK that has a dreamlike quality to it. The sound of the owls and the trees resonates deep in the soul. Sometimes violent, sometimes tender, always beautiful. David Lynch has been one of my favourites since my late teens. I was first made aware of Twin Peaks as a child when my mother shooed me away from the living room so she could watch it. I’ll never forget the ghostly music creeping up the stairs into my bedroom. Jay Stephens-Wood, 42, Forest of Dean