Joyful abstract landscapes

Polly is a British painter living in North Somerset, UK. Her work is a response to the joy of experiencing a landscape; Her focus is concerned with how it feels to be within a landscape rather than depicting a realistic representation. Through free and loose compositions, full of colour and gestural, expressive marks, the viewer is invited to meander through vibrant fields or along the coast.

Through her paintings, Polly seeks to express the pleasure of being outside and celebrate the small joys of day to day life. Her paintings are created intuitively and begin to take form by taking inspiration from the seasons; colour is often the starting point for a painting and is used as a way of exploring an emotive response to landscape.

‘Music, poems, landscape and dogs make me want to paint… and painting is what allows me to survive.’ (Joan Mitchell)