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 in finding their characters as I choose materials, piece together parts, problem solve the pragmatics of assemblage, and pile on the embellishment.
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