PollyGone Art and Design

Cover Image: Leonardo Da Vinci – The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist (Detail)


As a creative, often do I find inspiration from the experiences of daily life. Sparks of artistic enthusiasm resting in my thoughts, only for a fleeting moment before being pushed aside in place of the day to day routines of life.

This website is some what of an online sketchbook / journal where my artistic thoughts can rest before they are lost to the ocean waves of short distance memory.

Dogu, end of Jomon period; from the Ebisuda Site in Osaki, Miyagi
土偶 宮城県遠田郡田尻町蕪栗恵比須田出土 東京国立博物館 重要文化財
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The School of Athens – Raphael

The School of Athens – Raphael

Raphael’s “The School of Athens” is probably one of his most glorious and distinguished works that he produced during his successful, but sadly short career. It displays many of the techniques and artistic evolutions brought about in the late 15th and…

Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary – Raphael

Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary – Raphael

Figure 1 Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary 1514-1516 CE – Raphael Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520 CE) was an Italian artist who was active during the period of the High Renaissance, a period in art where the ideals of humanism and realism…