I was recently commissioned to photograph some artwork on behalf of Polly Hodges who is an accomplished dressage rider and artist. Her career as a dressage rider took off in 1999 and she went on to represent her country on British Teams and up to International Grand Prix level. Since equines are a never ending source of inspiration for her work, Polly is frequently found riding and training her horses, which helps her to clear her mind and re-energise her creative passions. Someone once posed the question: “What’s the greater of your passions, Horses or Painting?” Her response was simple: “In my world they go together, cannot be separate, one inspires the other!”

Polly has a love and respect of the beauty, grace, and power of the horse and consequently much of her work is emotive and captures movement through texture and acrylic paints on large canvas in order to achieve maximum impact and portray the power of the subject.

Both of the paintings shown below are on large canvases and initially caused a bit of a headache as I worked out how to photograph them. In time they will probably be offered as limited edition prints and greetings cards.