Polly Marix Evans

Statement

My linocut prints feature a small and feisty character known as Bun-Head.

Bun-Head inspires and helps me, and others, process our emotions. Viewers can draw from my prints what they need, they speak to everyone on an individual level. My art is both my daily work and a form of therapy. Without creating art, drawing and printing, I simply wouldn’t be able to function. My prints show the viewer how life has affected my art and, in turn, my art then affects the viewer’s life. If people come away feeling some sort of emotion, then my job is done.

The images are immediately recognisable to anyone who has ever felt that life is trickier and more complex than we had hoped – from trying to get your tights on in the morning, insomnia or menopause, to mental health issues, domestic and sexual abuse. An expression of the thick, dark and scary soup of life that laps at the feet of so many.

My prints may be two dimensional and apparently simple, but the ideas and feelings they convey are not, depicting both an awareness of vulnerability and the strength required to survive, and survive Bun-Head does!

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