Polly Marix Evans

Polly Marix Evans is a contemporary artist and printmaker living and working in Cumbria.

She works primarily in linocut, creating prints that show contrasting areas of black on white, with the occasional bold block of colour, and sharp angles encasing her figurative work. Polly’s approach to block printing offers a unique and refreshing perspective on this medium, emphasising compositional space over realistic detail.

Combining the quirky alongside deeper issues, her art offers something for everyone in the emotional tombola of life. Her most recent prints focus on her Strange Heads series, featuring inanimate objects or shapes scaled up and merged onto a figure, a representation of how it feels to be alive and deal with emotions in the world we live in today.

‘I draw and print what I feel. I see my emotions as images inside my head. They can’t stay there – I need to let them out.’

Polly’s work has garnered acclaim over the past decade, with her limited-edition prints displayed in selected galleries and private collections, both in the UK and internationally. Recent shows include Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition (2025), Leicester Print Workshop Small Print International (2026), Rock & Paper Collective Exhibition, London (2026), REJECTS Art Friend Gallery, London (2026), RE -Royal Society of Printmakers Small But Mighty 2026, London (2026) – winner of City & Guilds London Art School Award.

Polly regularly participates in Print Fairs across the country, including Printfest, Ulverston, where she won The Founders’ Award (2025), The Hepworth Wakefield Print Fair, and Glasgow Print Fair.