Anastasia Pollard RP, CBPP

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Anastasia Pollard is an American born British artist specialising in portrait and figure painting. She trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Florence Academy of Art. After completing her studies she moved to London.

Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions in both London and the United States, and her portraits have been featured in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ annual exhibition for the past two decades, winning the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture in 2009.

Her work has been included in the BP Portrait Award, an exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012 and 2017. Anastasia has a wealth of knowledge accumulated over her many years of training, practice and teaching at Heatherleys School of Fine Art, Draw Brighton, Raw Umber Studios and at many Ateliers both here in the UK and abroad.