Shropshire born, Polly was educated at Ludlow High School, Shrewsbury Art College and Birmingham College of Art, where she studied Theatre Design with the well-known designer, the late Findlay James.
Polly managed the Compendium Art Gallery in Birmingham for three years. For the following ten years she divided her time between bringing up three children and running the freelance company that she and her husband Alex founded in 1976, making bespoke props, costumes and art works for theatres, film, television and advertising companies.
In 1979 Polly was asked to design the souvenir poster for Ludlow Festival. Her series of limited edition prints for the festival has continued unbroken since then and by now several thousand of the prints can be found in collections worldwide. The first Macbeth poster was selected as one of the 6 British entries for a touring International Poster Exhibition starting in Toronto.
Returning to full time education in 1991 Polly gained a First Class Honours Degree in History of Art and History at Wolverhampton University, and subsequently worked at the University for five years as a History Researcher. In 2007 she was awarded a PhD for her art and history based thesis 'Haberdashery and its use in Dress, 1550-1800'.
Polly and Alex moved to a hill farm near Tayvallich in Scotland in 1996, where they keep Highland cattle and Herdwick sheep, run a Bed & Breakfast (www.whiterock-argyll.co.uk) and continue their companies Pollex Props and Firebrand.
Apart from venues in Shropshire, Birmingham, and Argyll Polly's work has appeared on magazine covers and greetings cards and by invitation she has contributed to “Art off the Rock”, the biennial Stirling based Art Link charity auction.
Polly managed the Compendium Art Gallery in Birmingham for three years. For the following ten years she divided her time between bringing up three children and running the freelance company that she and her husband Alex founded in 1976, making bespoke props, costumes and art works for theatres, film, television and advertising companies.
In 1979 Polly was asked to design the souvenir poster for Ludlow Festival. Her series of limited edition prints for the festival has continued unbroken since then and by now several thousand of the prints can be found in collections worldwide. The first Macbeth poster was selected as one of the 6 British entries for a touring International Poster Exhibition starting in Toronto.
Returning to full time education in 1991 Polly gained a First Class Honours Degree in History of Art and History at Wolverhampton University, and subsequently worked at the University for five years as a History Researcher. In 2007 she was awarded a PhD for her art and history based thesis 'Haberdashery and its use in Dress, 1550-1800'.
Polly and Alex moved to a hill farm near Tayvallich in Scotland in 1996, where they keep Highland cattle and Herdwick sheep, run a Bed & Breakfast (www.whiterock-argyll.co.uk) and continue their companies Pollex Props and Firebrand.
Apart from venues in Shropshire, Birmingham, and Argyll Polly's work has appeared on magazine covers and greetings cards and by invitation she has contributed to “Art off the Rock”, the biennial Stirling based Art Link charity auction.