Meet Elizabeth Polland
Alabama native, Elizabeth Polland has always been inspired by creativity. As a wife, mom and artist, she incorporates her faith in God through her work with a contemporary touch to traditional style and timeless subjects.
Elizabeth has painted as long as she can remember, even taking art lessons outside of school in the summers growing up in Birmingham. She went on to graduate with an Art degree from Ole Miss. Elizabeth has always been surrounded by some sort of creative niche. After graduating college, she found herself as a Calligrapher, addressing wedding invitations for several years before she started painting again. She has painted nursery and school murals, furniture and countless canvases.
Motherhood become her number one and most beloved priority and after losing her mom, she put painting on hold. It wasn’t until ten plus years later she picked the brush back up and never looked back. Over time, she developed a signature style with her love of soft, cool colors mixed with earth tones. Her favorite projects include mixed media painting and handcrafted items.
Elizabeth’s commissions are painted to re-create memories that will be stories to tell for generations. Commissions include recreating memorable moments such as portraits, churches, family homes, nests and lots of beloved dogs to name a few. Her signature style of cool color palettes and lots of white bring softness to her paintings.
Her biggest cheerleaders are her husband and her children. Her mom played a large role in the woman she has become and the artist that she is. Elizabeth resides in Alabama with her husband, kids and beloved pups.
Her relationship with God and living out her faith is the forefront to each piece that she creates, in hopes to plant seeds through the use of paint and enjoying the journey it takes her.
Photography by Mary Tweedy
I love my little area of Shelby County, Alabama. It’s been a good place to raise my kids among all the wonderful people. I appreciate the opportunity and humbled to have been spotlighted in Shelby County Living Magazine.
