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  Paintings & Sculptures by Polly Hope

  6th December 2009 - 4th January 2010
The Dollar Street Gallery, 34-36 Dollar Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 2AN

Polly Hope has always painted animals from her early days as a student until to today She grew up surrounded by modern architecture and painting, but, hidden in the attic fearful of ridicule, she was enthralled by books of Landseer and Stubbs paintings.

The exhibition in the Founders' Foyer of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre brings together for the first time works exclusively about DOGS. There are many real ones in Polly Hope’s studio in Spitalfields and this exhibition is paralleled with the same liveliness and variety presented in the form of different mediums. Dogs appear as the colossal protagonists in a Welsh landscape, they are immortalized in double life-sized portraits, or as minute figures enjoying the comfort of a large sofa in Puebla. And they get smaller still, in a selection of painted miniatures where dogs are free to roam and fly in the midst of magical landscapes.

Surely these mostly new paintings will be a delight for our canine loving citizens.

Polly Hope works in many mediums and disciplines, She has exhibited on all the continents except Greenland and she has completed many large public works. Her website, www.pollyhope.com shows quite how wide her range is.

B R Y A N R O B E R T S O N - Art Critic

Polly Hope works consistently as a figurative artist with a keen appreciation of abstract principles and she likes to move freely from one medium to another, from drawing to painting, from printmaking to photography, from making sculpture to designing and executing murals and stage sets. She excels as an artist in all these disciplines.

S I R R O Y S T R O N G

Polly Hope is an original, by that I mean she follows her own aesthetic star, carefree, is sharply disciplined, whither it takes her. Her craftsmanship and standards defy criticism, it is her utter sureness that most impresses.