Mitchell Grafton is a ceramic artist and sculptor from the USA. The master lives and works in Panama City, Florida. Already at the age of 19, he was working for Odell Ceramics in Ruston, Louisiana, while studying at Tech University. After graduation, Mitchell moved to Panama City, Florida where he worked for the next 9 years. And in 2009, he opened his own ...

Olga Venzhega is a doll artist, sculptor, member of the professional union of authors of art dolls UNIDIA, two-time winner and coordinator of the Max Oscar Arnold Prize for Contemporary Doll Art (Neustadt bei Coburg), winner of the "Doll of the Year" competitions. Jury member of the Pandora Prize and the virtual competition History of Fashion. Organiser of the international exhibition "German Doll Christmas" (Odessa). Olga Venzhega is a permanent ...

Recycling Art is an art direction based on the transformation of old, obsolete household items into new art objects. Recycling artists, like eco-artists, call for the elimination of the harmful environmental impact of household waste and the search for alternative resources and energy. Margaux Lange received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (2001), where she was first conceived ...

Internationally renowned knitting sculpture maker Claire Garland inspires many who can hold a needle with her work. In her youth she studied general design: photography, graphics, illustration and textiles at art college, although she is self-taught in knitting and has been knitting for over 20 years! Claire Garland is the author of numerous knitting books, some of which ....

At the beginning of the XIX century in the French glove theatre there appeared a hero who not only shared the fame of Polichinel, but perhaps even surpassed it. The name of this hero - Guignol. His creator was a Lyon weaver Laurent Murguet. Murguet was born in 1769, as a teenager he started working at one of the famous Lyon silk-spinning factories. During the Great French Revolution, all the factories closed, ...

Sabine Vogel is a well-known doll maker from Germany. She makes one-of-a-kind articulated porcelain dolls. Sabine experiments with many materials, but the main thing in her work remains porcelain - a material that seems to be timeless and has immortal beauty and brightness. Each work of the master has its own story. Sabine Vogel fully thinks through the whole image, ...

Catherine Mather porcelain dolls are an echo of the glittering era of The Great Gatsby and Art Deco luxury. You are invited to enter the mind of the artist, capturing the details behind the complex beauty of each character. It seems as if each doll possesses a will and a character, a special dignity that we would like to endow in our frantic age of digital technology. The limited edition solid porcelain dolls are created for ...

Gretchen Lima has been creating dolls for most of her life. All dolls are made of natural materials and support the ecology of the project as a whole, designed to protect nature and humans from the negative effects of industrial production and modern technology. Her work is an expression of not only what she sees, but also what she feels. The delicate and poetic titles of the dolls are ...

"The needle is my tool, the thread is my medium, and the stitches are my marks..." - American textile artist Salley Mavor writes about her work. Salley Mavor works primarily with felt. She uses this material to create a miniature world, beautifully combining stunning felt embroidery, natural materials such as tree bark, twigs, shells, and elements of ...

Mannequin dolls have been known since ancient times, but they became widespread in the 18th and 19th centuries, during the Industrial Revolution in Europe. Traders used mannequins made of wood and papier-mache to demonstrate outfits and to send samples of the latest fashion to other cities. Mannequins were made not only for dresses and underwear, but also for hats. In these ...