Pollyanna Pickering

Pollyanna Pickering (1942 - 2018) was widely recognised as Europe's foremost wildlife artist, and the most published fine artist working in Britain during her lifetime. She won close to fifty international awards for her artwork, and in 2008 she received an honorary degree from the University of Derby in recognition of her achievements. Pollyanna h... eld the post of honorary patron of The Wildlife Art Society International. She was also a signature member of the Artists for Conservation Foundation and the Society of Feline Artists and the Association of Animal Artists and a full juried member of the New York based Society of Animal Artists. A familiar face on TV, the most recent documentary about her work Made in England was broadcast on BBC1. Pollyanna was born in Yorkshire, and is pictured left making an early start on her career! She began her real art training at Rotherham Art School, where, in her first year she won the award for most promising student - and met her future husband, Ken Pickering, an industrial designer. She went on to study for a further three years at the London Central School of Art, graduating with distinction. Pollyanna's original work was exhibited in top galleries internationally, including the Royal Academy. Her paintings hang in private and corporate collections world-wide from Siberia to Australia, and celebrity collectors of her work include John Hurt, Virginia Mckenna and David Bowie, while Sheik Mohammed has a specially commissioned series of paintings of his Ascot winners. Her work was presented to Princess Anne, and she was even commissioned to paint Her Majesty the Queens' favourite racing pigeon! Her paintings will be familiar to most people from her extensive ranges of fine art prints and cards, many commissioned by charities including the WWF, Guide Dogs for the Blind and the RSPB. Her limited edition and fine art prints, books, ranges of greeting and Christmas cards and gift ware are sold throughout the UK and exported into over eighty countries world-wide. Pollyanna ...Read More