Five Sculptors Who Create Amazing Artist Dolls

Combining multiple interests and talents, these five artists create some of the most fascinating, bizarre, beautiful and awesome, in the truest sense of the word, dolls.

Freya Jobbins says that she is inspired by Guiseppe Archimboldo and his fruit and vegetable paintings; Penny Byrne’s ceramic creations,  Ron Muek’s giant people, Gunther Von Hagen’s plastinated corpses,  and of course the Toy Story Trilogy.  Combining these inspirations with a technique that incorporates plastic doll parts and toys, she creates assemblages of faces, heads and larger busts.  Provocative, humorous and perhaps slightly disturbing Jobbins’ assemblages explore the relationship between consumerist fetishism and the emerging recycling culture.

Ana Salvador was born in Barreiro, which is a small town in Portugal.  She now lives in Amsterdam and has a passion for sculpture, drawing and painting.  Inspired by the human body, antiques, ornaments, fabrics and laces Salvador creates fantastical sculpted figures with distinct personalities.

Marina Bychkova is a Russian-Canadian figurative artist who founded Enchanted Doll so that she could devote her time to creating exquisite porcelain dolls.  An artist through and through Bychkova is concerned with each detail on her dolls, from their costumes to their facial expressions.

Dolls are an appealing motif for artists because, as artist/ doll-maker Marina Bychkoya says, “I’m not content working in just one medium such as painting or sculpture, and dolls offer me a very diverse and satisfying tactile experience. To create a doll I get to do it all: sculpture, industrial design, painting, engraving, mold-making, drawing, metalwork, fashion and jewelry design.”

Andrew Yang’s Kouklitas are fashion rag dolls, hand-painted with costumes designed and created by Yang.  With a fashion background Yang grew up inspired by his mother’s collection of Madame Alexander dolls.  Now he creates beautiful and interesting figures of his own.

After working as a graphic and interior designer Dorote Zaukaite decided to become a full time independent artist mainly specializing in dolls.  Working with porcelain and mixed media Zaukaite creates figures that appear to have stepped out of a Tim Burton film.  Wildly imaginative, Zaukaite’s dolls are captivating and haunting.

source: beautifuldecay.com