Polly Turner lives at the Point in Cherry Grove, S.C., where her artwork creates a rich, cumulative portrait of local people, beaches, waterways, and wetlands. She works in digital photography, drawing, and painting in oil, acrylic, and gouache.
Polly received a BFA in painting and drawing from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia College of Art. She taught art at the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Polly has received a Tiffany Grant, as well as five Best in Show awards (among many others) from the Myrtle Beach-based Seacoast Artists Guild and Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild in the categories of painting, drawing, and photography. Her large charcoal drawing “Over Waties Island” was awarded Best Drawing at the 2022 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition at City Gallery in Charleston, S.C.
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Polly’s work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and juried exhibitions, including:
- Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, S.C.
- City Gallery, Charleston, S.C.
- ArtFields, Lake City, S.C.
- William Miller Gallery, Myrtle Beach
- Seacoast Artists Gallery, Myrtle Beach
- Art Harbor Gallery, Georgetown, S.C.
- The FCM Waters Gallery, Florence, S.C.
- The Contemporary Art Exchange (2019 Elmwood Invitational), Washington, N.C.
- Verrazzano Gallery, theArtWorks, Wilmington, N.C.
- Leland Cultural Arts Center, Leland, N.C.
- Dalton Gallery, Rock Hill, S.C.
- The Gallery @ 5th & Water, Charlottesville, Va.
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