The Art of Kat Soto
Just before Christmas we featured a series of faeries created by Kat Soto for a San Fransicso store’s window display. Today I return to Kat’s beautiful website to take a peek at her faeries and fairy tale creations. With over 23 years as a professional sculptor and modelmaker, the quality of Kat’s work is unsurprising. The dolls have finely sculpted faces and bodies with ball jointed arms, and the fabric costumes are quite simply amazing!
Filed under Sculpture | Comment (0)The Art of Juan Cabana
Sailors undertaking a long voyage would often return with strange tales to tell – of mermaids and sea serpents, and other mysterious creatures from the depths of the ocean. On occasion, they would also bring home the preserved remains of one of these exotic creatures, previously thought to have existed only in legend. These ‘Feejee’ mermaids were usually elaborate fakes, but they none the less caused a sensation where ever they were exhibited. Juan Cabana is continuing in this age old tradition with his eerily realistic creations, constructed using real fish teeth, bones and skin. See amazing mermaids, sea faeries and other oceanic beasties of all shapes and sizes in his galleries, along with a collection of images of antique mermaids.
Filed under Sculpture | Comments (3)The Faerie Way
Valerie Trezise of The Faerie Way lives by the waters edge near Bath in the Southwest of England. The self-taught artist has been creating Faeries for many years, greatly inspired by the cycles of nature and the fae spirits around her home and encountered on her many travels. Valerie’s dolls are soft bodied, with either hand sculpted clay or cloth stitched faces, and clothes made from colourful recycled fabrics and natural materials. All of the them are completely one off and uniquely hand made.
Filed under Sculpture | Comment (0)Fairy Furnishings & Enchanted Accoutrements
Multidisciplinary artist Diana Heyne makes all sorts of beautiful things, including some of the most intricate and amazing fairy furniture and shadow boxes. Using twigs, moss, nuts, seed pods, and other natural materials, Diana has created everything from an old fashioned Gypsy-style wagon complete with cooking pot over a ‘fire’, to cosy beds, chairs and sofas – right down to the daintiest little tea pots. For the more modern faery there is even a car! Diana’s wonderful fairy furniture is available to purchase through her etsy shop.
Filed under Sculpture | Comment (0)The Art of Tatiana Tofaneto
Tatiana Tofaneto is an award winning fantasy doll artist from Brazil. Tatiana began sculpting with cold porcelain but has since moved onto polymer clay to create her gorgeous figures. Each finely detailed doll is one of a kind and comes on a base for display.
Filed under Sculpture | Comment (0)Faerie Tales by Karen Williams
Working in a studio in her garden, self taught artist Karen Williams creates her unusual Faerie Tales sculptures. They are made from wire and fabric, which is then weatherproofed, making the faeries suitable for indoor or outdoor display. All of the sculptures are unique and individually named.
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Saskia Hoeber is a figurative artist from the Netherlands. She first began sculpting dolls from polymer clay in 1988, and today specialises in Crystal Fairies. To create these unique sculptures Saskia starts with a crystal, some cut and polished, some in a more raw state, and adds the fairy to perfectly complement the colours and ‘personality’ of the stone. The mermaids are similarly sculpted to perch atop gorgeous polished sea shells. Whether or not you believe in any special powers attributed to crystals, the results are extremely attractive and a make a wonderful way to display the sculptures.
Filed under Sculpture | Comment (0)The Urban Mermaid
Located in Manchester’s vibrant Northern Quarter is a magical studio called The Urban Mermaid belonging to Deborah “Chyna” Hodgkiss. Studio 21, up the stairs of the Craft & Design Centre, is full to bursting with Faerie folk in all shapes and sizes, handmade in ceramic by the Urban Mermaid herself. The pretty faeries, mermaids, dragons, pixies are all individual and utterly charming. Visitors can also see the fantastic selection of Tangleheads tiaras, also made by Chyna.
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Molly Stanton of Elven Elysium admits to somewhat humble beginnings as an artist. Despite this, Molly is now creating a collection of simply lovely one of a kind fantasy art dolls, along side pretty faerie necklaces and pure soy candles. For collectors with a limited budget, Molly also produces a range of dolls using resin casts taken from her original sculpt, which are then hand embellished. Each pose is limited to 25-50 pieces each, although due to the hand embellishment, each doll is unique in itself.
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Artists Francesca and David began making and selling Goblins at craft shows over 16 years ago. The range of humorous figures are hand crafted in the UK and include single figures and groupings, shelf sitters, bookends and a fantastic selection of shoes. No two Goblins are ever the same, and custom goblins are available. How about the bride and groom as an unusual wedding cake topper?
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