We carry the work of many contemporary doll artists from around the world. What inspires doll makers and what are they trying to express? Hopefully they will share their artistic experience and reveal to us to why they became doll makers. While doll artists use many methods and materials, as comparing their work on our website will show, they also tend to repeat certain themes. Each artist employs a unique style and often displays a personal preference for particular subject matter.
About the doll artist Rotraut Schrott is one of the few candidates for recognition as today’s pre-eminent doll artist. She became an instant success upon first showing her work at a major exhibition in Munich, Germany, in 1982. Since that time, her dolls are eagerly sought out by serious collectors and examples of her work reside in…
Olive Oyl: an iconic cartoon character, now as an art doll. Olive Oyl is an iconic cartoon character beloved by many who hail from all over the world. She was created as something of a coy flapper by American cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar for the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theater, which was first published…
Limited edition art dolls Tom Francirek and Andre Oliveira create art dolls, hauntingly beautiful children and elegantly romantic ladies, in the diverse mediums of porcelain and poured wax dolls. Consider the limited edition art doll Eve, number eight of ten, 25 inches, as an example of their artistry. “Eve” is highly detailed painted porcelain. If…
The dolls in the gallery below have been sold but are typical of Elisa Gallea’s wonderful OOAK polymer clay art dolls. They are included here so doll lovers will have a better idea of her work and will be able to make comparisons with new, available pieces as we put them on our e-shop or this…
Monika Mechling’s earliest artistic endeavors were two dimensional: she painted in oils and watercolors. she found her way to the doll world by creating historical costumes for cloth dolls. She and husband Bob, a graphic artist, showed these cloth and lace creations at several art shows, where the dolls were very well-received. After nine…
In the Artist’s Own Words Hildegard Gunzel describes her doll making. “Everyone in life is spellbound by something at one time or another. The tiniest of things can work their magic. The perfect rose, the bee in the middle of a flower, a clear summer’s morning or a glittering field of virgin snow; all of…
Elisa Gallea in her own words My name is Elisa, I’m 32 years old, and I live in Palermo, Sicily isle (Italy)…I have been making OOAK dolls since about 7 years, when, after some simple attempts, I discovered the “Cernit”, and I falled in love with it! I think polymer clays great…when I have a…
The artists represented in our shop span the entire spectrum of contemporary doll art. They work in a multitude of mediums and produce dolls that are as varied in style and theme as their own very interesting personalities. Some create elegantly dressed ladies or beautiful baby dolls which are in the tradition of early doll…