Joan Blackwood

Joan Blackwood's OOAK fimo polymer clay art dolls are noted for their sensitive and observant portrayal of people. Her portrait dolls of children and ladies are beautiful, detailed and very lifelike in expression. Her character dolls tell a little story that could be snipped from anyone's life. She has an eye and heart for faces and what they convey, so her dolls invite the beholder to fathom what's happening behind the face. Of course, they are "only" dolls, so where have we really gone when when we enter that space where recognition and familiarity click and we understand the smile or pout, sidelong gaze or eyes-wide look? Perhaps the magic of art takes each one of us to some place different.