Rob Pollien is a painter based in Bar Harbor, on Mount Desert Island, Maine.

“Pollien’s work has an edge to it that is in keeping with the raw forces of nature his paintings capture. They are full of inner drama. None of the paintings seem to have come easily to Pollien, which I consider the hallmark of a deeply self-reflective and utterly serious artist. These paintings introduce us to a kind of beauty that goes far beyond what is visible to the eye.”
–from a review by Britta Konau in The Free Press

https://www.instagram.com/rob_pollien/

Robert Pollien earned his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Robert has been awarded a Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in painting. He has also received support from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the Monhegan Artists’ Residency Corporation, the Joseph A. Fiore Art Center at Rolling Acres Farm and the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, among others. He is a two‑time Artist‑in‑Residence at Acadia National Park

Pollien’s paintings are in numerous corporate, public, and private collections including he Farnsworth Art Museum, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and the U.S. Department of the Interior. He is represented by the Page Gallery in Camden, Maine and Artemis Gallery in Northeast Harbor, Maine.