Polly Hope

Polly Hope (21 June 1933 – 20 November 2013) was a British artist, designer and author.

Biography Hope was born in Colchester, England and lived between her London home in Spitalfields, and her house on the Greek island of Rhodes. She trained as a ballet dancer and joined the Festival Ballet before deciding to become an artist. She studied at the Heatherley School of Fine Art, at Chelsea Polytechnic from 1950 to 1952, and then the Slade School of Fine Art. Although Hope trained as a painter and sculptor, she undertook a number of public commissions for large scale quilted fabrics. These included works for the headquarters of the NMB Bank in Amsterdam, for Cwmbran and for a church in Whitstable. Her first novel 'Here (Away From It All). It was described by The Guardian as an 'adult Lord of the Flies '

Hope's father was British Army Officer Hugh Stockwell, who commanded the Anglo-French ground forces during the Suez Crisis. and was Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of NATO From 1960 to 1964.

Hope died of cancer in November 2013.