Lady Lady Lillypot is a textile artist who creates fantastically doll-like pieces in the OOAK Art style. Lady Lillypot's work immerses us in a flow of sleepy, serene cosiness, the unhurried flow of time, where there is room for conversations about the weather, neighbours and pie recipes. Charming carelessness combined with refined aristocratism is what "hooks" the eye and makes us study with interest the ...

GRASSIMESSE EXHIBITION-Fair 2023 from 20 October to 22 October 2023 at the GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts in Leipzig GRASSIMESSE is a meeting point for design enthusiasts and connoisseurs of beautiful things. It is an art exhibition and sales fair in one person. Here you can meet contemporary artists, craftsmen and designers and buy all art and products. The exhibitors offer ...

In kindergarten, Elisabeth Higgins O'Connor drew a yellow blob with an orange triangle on a white piece of paper. Her classmates crowded around her when they saw a little duckling in the blob. More than four decades later, Elisabeth Higgins O'Connor said that moment changed her. It helped her develop as an artist. Over the years, her work has grown in scale and has begun to include a variety of ...

Cristina Cordova is an American-born Puerto Rican sculptor working and living in Penland, North Carolina. Cristina Cordova received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. In 2002, she enrolled in a three-year artist residency programme at the Penland ...

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, sisters of various French convents began dressing dolls in religious costumes. However, a nun doll from an earlier period is available at antique auctions, which offer examples in religious garb from the mid and even early 18th century.Catholic communities in major cities sent specially purchased inexpensive dolls to remote convents with instructions and ...

Miniature painting has a long history in Japan. The technology has been around for thousands of years. Some of the most common examples include bonsai trees, objects symbolising technological progress, and even mobile phones. Following this trend, Japanese artist Kiyomi (aka Chiisana Shiawase) is showcasing her own collection of handmade miniatures. These days, artists can miniaturise anything. Kiyomi has breathed new ...

Martha Boers is a talented doll artist with a multitude of different techniques. She has gained international recognition as part of the Martha & Marianne doll making team, and her new solo work continues to surprise and win awards. Martha Boers was born in the Netherlands and immigrated to Canada at the age of 5. Three years later, Marianne was born. The two girls grew up ...

Tatiana Baeva is a master of art dolls, a member of the National Institute of American Doll Artists NIADA. - For as long as I can remember I have enjoyed drawing, gluing and modelling, but most of all I have been interested in creating doll-like objects. One day at school we had a writing assignment 'What I would like to do when I grow up'. I wrote that I would like to work at a ...

European Patchwork Meeting & Textile Arts 14-16 September 2023, Val d'Argent, Alsace, France The history of the European Patchwork Meeting dates back to 1993, when the French Association of Anabaptism and Mennonite History organised a 300th anniversary celebration in Saint-Marie-aux-Mines, the cradle of the Amish movement. The European Patchwork Meeting is the leading cultural event on the European continent. Each year ...

96th Tokyo International Gift Show Autumn 2023 6 - 8 September 2023 Tokyo International Gift Show (TIGS) is Japan's largest international trade exhibition showcasing gifts, consumer goods and decorative accessories. Founded in 1976, it is held semi-annually, every spring and autumn, in Japan's ultra-modern Tokyo ...