Category Archives: My painting
Fish and Noodles White Conduit Projects 11.3.16 A performative painting to commemorate 5 years since the Japanese Tsunami. Devised by Polly Bagnall and performed by Polly and Mizuki Tsuge. The sound of thunder chopsticks stop stirring noodles dinner interrupted by Johanna Gilmour Two scrolls with haikus written with chopsticks and noodles and squid. […]
A comical look at the particular gallery going population in Dulwich- inspired by my late father the cartoonist, Brian Bagnall.
Dance Suite IV 100 x150cm Mixed Media on Canvas Dance Suite V 100 x150cm Mixed Media on Canvas Love is Everywhere 140 x 70cm on two panels Acrylic, oil and household paints on canvas
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A Fluxus Inspired Transatlantic Exchange Between Polly Bagnall (UK)and Melissa Staiger (USA) To ‘Connect’ with, a person, a moment, an idea. This is the concept behind my body of work, which I call Field Recording. Focusing on an Experience, and the minute events within it I have used graphic and non-traditional mark-making in an […]
I was asked to submit paintings for a Halloween ritual to celebrate Samhain, a pagan festival that coincides with the start of winter. Using edible materials and my tongue as a painting implement I made the following four paintings. They are painted on linen, but made with saffron, beetroot, sweet potato, wine, blackberry, elderflower and […]
The following 24 paintings are a selection of smallish paintings (30 x30 or 40 x 40cm) on linen. Each is a response to the ambient phenomena of that time of year. Painted in mixed media (oil; acrylic; beetroot; wine and saffron) applied with parts of the body (calf, palm, tongue, thumbs) as well as implements […]
A group show by the Fabelists includes several of my paintings.
Thoughts on painting 