unique, one of a kind mixed media jewelry, art dolls, and beads; utilizing polymer clay, mixed metals, found and reclaimed objects.
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San Diego, CA 92127
United States
| In the 1970's, when everyone was into making silver wire jewelry, I learned the basics of metal smithing at the Worcester Craft Center, in Massachusetts. However, once I left New England, I did not have the same access to a studio, and for a while I put jewelry making aside.
Much later, I became a polymer clay and beadwork artist, who made jewelry. In my work, I kept coming back to the human form and faces; from the primitive to the realistic to the absurd.
I was always drawn to the thought of doll making, and as I began to use more mixed media in my jewelry, explore fiber arts and branch out into different forms of expression, I kept coming back to dolls. One class taught me the basics of a wire armature wrapped in batting and dressed.....well, anyway. Since then, I have looked for less traditional doll forms, and am now using a variety of very nontraditional armatures for my dolls.
My dolls tend to start out as other peoples' bits and pieces, odds and ends, and discards. The fun for me is... |
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