Juliet Pelukh is a member of the NIADA International Association of Puppet Artists since 2019. She works with air-cured clays and creates mainly articulated dolls. Her work is full of delicate charm and the need to capture moments of elusive beauty and innocence. The artist prefers to use soft neutral tones in the doll's costume. And in this monochrome solution there are many exquisite finds: layered skirts, fine ...

Our choice this month was a wonderful dolls exhibition in Rome. Organised by Paola Bellecca. Full information can be found at IL SALOTTO DELLA BAMBOLA E DEL GIOCATTOLO D'EPOCA Ekaterina Tarasova Alexandra Kukinova Julia Weller Simona Catapano Laura Scattolini Elisa Fenoglio Claudia Raddi Patrizia Cozzo Elisa Gallea Loredana Salvo  

Kira Kinash is one of today's most popular authors and a member of Unidia. Her dolls invariably arouse delight and admiration. The number of admirers, both among collectors and other craftsmen, grows exponentially year after year. Many successful nowadays masters have followed Kira's courses, and her "footprint" is often seen in the works of other artists. She is imitated, ...

Kate Church graduated from the American Institute of Puppet Artists with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Kate describes her work as sculptural-puppetry, and this is particularly evident in the series of pieces she created for Cirque du Soleil, which have sold worldwide. The delicate and delicate work with textiles deserves special attention. How easily and effortlessly the author plays with paper and cotton thread, ...

Irina Cherepanova, a talented master and creator of the "Kingdom of White Nights and Lingonberry Fields", is a guest of The Daily Doll. Irina travels the world with her works and decorates many international exhibitions and festivals of author's dolls. Her dolls are amazing! Magic characters immerse us in a fairy-tale world, where each character has its own story. Today Irina will tell us ...

The author of the doll "Moths of Time" Bozhchenko Irina Bozhchenko, Lugansk - member of the professional union of authors of art dolls UNIDIA "Life is fleeting, catch every moment. In the sky dancing, carelessly twirling Like a white flower. Light wings flapping above the ground like a moth. I'd like to live a carefree life like him above the flowers. Dancing in the sky, laughing jokingly and circling and circling..." Doll ...

Forest Rogers is an unrivalled master of Fantasy&Horror dolls. Her figurative sculptures seem incredibly realistic and evoke contradictory feelings. The sculptor has brought back wonderful memories from her childhood: for example, about how at the age of two or three years old she moulded a figure of a frog out of sand with her mother (there is even a photo of this moment on Rogers' official website). Or about the house ...

We bring to your attention an interview with Elisa Fenoglio - the winner of the IV season of the international virtual Gaudir author doll competition in the "Costume" category. Tell us, please, how long have you been making dolls and how did you come to it? Do you have a professional background or are you self-taught? From whom did you learn the art of puppetry? I have been making dolls for about ...

Here is an interview with Anna Terekhova, the winner of the IV season of the international virtual author doll competition Gaudir Anna, please tell us how long have you been working with dolls and how did you come to this? Do you have a professional background, or are you self-taught? - It all started when I was a child. My mother and grandmother taught me how to sew, and already at the age of 6...

Many beautiful models, moulds, drawings and sketches have come out of Deanna Effner's hands. In the early 70's, when she first made her name as a doll maker. In 1999, she founded the famous "Doll Dreamers Guild", a full-fledged workshop aimed at training and educating professionals who can make their own dolls and, most ...