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 ...

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 ...

Elena Artamonova with her work The Witch (on the cover) won the prize of the fourth season of the Gaudir contest in the Originality category. Here is an interview with the author. Tell us, please, how long have you been working with dolls and how did you come to this? Do you have a professional education or are you self-taught? I have been making dolls for as long as I can remember. I am a professional writer who has published more than ...

The author of the doll "Loving Owl" Maria de Jesus Rodriguez Flores - member of the professional union of authors of art dolls UNIDIA The work is made in a single copy. Mixed technique, felting, fabric modelling, cotton appliqués. 30 cm    

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Svetlana Gladkikh is the winner in the expressiveness category in the fourth season of Gaudir. Her story is a clear example of how belief in oneself and the desire to develop, lead to victory even in such a difficult competition as Gaudir. Tell us, please, how long have you been puppeteering and how did you come to it? Do you have a professional background, or are you self-taught? Puppets ...