Pollyanna Wins Association of Animal Artists Award

Pollyanna is honoured to have received the Association of Animal Artists most prestigious award, which was presented at their Annual Gala Dinner.Passionate about wildlife and equally passionate about accurately interpreting her subjects, Pollyanna has dedicated her life to conservation through art.

The Inaugural Chairman’s Award is presented to the artist who is considered to have most significantly raised the profile of wildlife art in the last twelve months.

Pollyanna is the most published artist in the UK, with images selling in eighty countries worldwide, giving her a unique opportunity to raise the profile of wildlife art internationally. During the past year her artwork has been exhibited in galleries throughout the UK as well as in Vancouver, Florida and Arizona.
Pollyanna is an award winning speaker and in the last twelve months she presented over 50 talks throughout the UK, about her expeditions to paint endangered species in the wild. In early January 2016 she travelled to Tucson to lecture at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Art Institute. Pollyanna’s enthusiastic and often light hearted presentations help to bring awareness of specific environmental issues and the role of wildlife art in conservation to her audiences – often for the very first time.

She is also able to reach brand new audiences through her regular guest appearances on the Create and Craft TV channel – in 2015 Pollyanna filmed 28 one hour shows, working at her easel live in the studio, and chatting to the presenters about the inspiration behind her artwork. Over 100 follow up shows featuring her artwork and clips of her interviews were broadcast, and in spring the channel sent a crew to her studio to film ‘A Day in the Life of a Wildlife Artist’. For the first time last year, Pollyanna also took part in several ‘simulcast’ shows – which broadcast live across the USA.

The AAA was founded to offer opportunities and support to artists from around the world working in the field of wildlife and animal art. It is the friendship and genuine support that the artists give each other and the charities which the AAA supports, which is the hallmark of the Association.
Pollyanna said ‘I feel so lucky to have won this beautiful award for doing the work I love and am so passionate about.”

Pollyanna received a beautiful glass trophy, courtesy of Anne Corless, the Inaugural Chairman, and also a year’s subscription to The Artist magazine, (thanks to the editor Dr Sally Bulgin who is also the publisher of Leisure Painter magazine) and materials from Rosemary and Co Artists Brushes

Pollyanna has previously won over 30 national and International awards recognising her achievements in both art and conservation.