Polly Woolstone – portfolio

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07939 261969
Polly.woolstone@gmail.com

Artist information

Polly studied Illustration and Graphics at Canterbury College of Art and has taught Art and Textiles all her career.

 Now retired from full-time teaching, she works from her studio in Oxford.

 Her work reflects her travels – from  landscapes in the UK and Ireland to her many visits to India. She aims to express both physical and emotional journeys, sometimes incorporating poems and words that resonate. Working in mixed media and paint, her work combines a love of mark-making, texture and colour. 

‘Come Walk with Me’

She has based recent work on walks she has taken with her sketchbook. Taking words from a poem ‘walk slowly, pausing often’, she has stopped along the way to reflect and to draw. Sometimes to record the landscape, sometimes the patterns, colours and marks.

The coastal reactions of Ireland and the UK has given her much inspiration along with the Ridgeway and the Malvern Hills.

The countryside is full of echoes of the past  –  a recurring theme in my work   ‘..and those who came before…’  and how they have left their mark on the landscape through things such as sunken roads, stone walls, hill forts etc.

In contrast to this she spends some time each year in India with her sketchbook and the colours, stitch-work and fabrics observed are reflected in her work.