Polly Bennett graduated from City & Guilds of London Art School in 2018 and in 2019 completed The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers Decorative Surfaces Fellowship. She is an Honorary Freeman of The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers, and a member of the Wilderness Art Collective, a group of creatives whose work discusses the natural world. In 2020 she began her project POLBEN's Pigment, where she travels the world, forages, and produces pigments and inks to use in her own work, and for others to buy.