Empress Theodora was a truly remarkable, accomplished, influential and impressive woman. She is a Byzantine-age feminist icon, a progressive reformer, and a real life Cinderella story!
Read MoreI’ve been working on a Little Red photo series to illustrate and publish one of my favourite fairy tales!
Read MoreAbandoning several months of work and starting over from scratch was a very hard decision to make, but it had to be done, sunk cost fallacy be damned!! I’ll talk more about why I made this decision in upcoming posts.
Stand by for more unveiling and enjoy!
“Reincarnation” crown on the White Peacock doll. I made and shot this piece a few months ago in grief and in celebration of the life, to get through a terrible and painful loss that I’ve been stuck in.
Read Moreexturing a canvas print with layers of transparent gel, to make it look like an expressionist oil painting.
Read MoreMy last photo series of 2022, with my current work-in-progress doll, Theodora.
Read MoreI’m applying hundreds of shiny scales to her royal robe, to resemble the golden Byzantine mosaics in churches
Read Morelooking very Elvish on my work table. I think she is channeling the radiant Lady Arwen at the moment, bathed in the light of the Ilúvatar.
Read MoreI painted a celestial veil of shimmering stars on her face and in her eyes, to symbolize a vast and timeless glittering multiverse of endless cosmic possibilities.
Read MoreThe Original head was painted after my Sapphire doll. After I dropped and fractured it, I took it as a sign
Read MoreA mournful photo series titled “Losing Self”. For one to be born, the first one had to die. Destruction is a form of creation.
Read MoreI use only natural fibres such as Mohair, Angora Goat and Silk for my dolls’ wigs; Never synthetics, as I just don’t like the synthetic aesthetic and I don’t think it suits fine porcelain very well.
Read MoreThe White Peacock is now SOLD. Her enormous white tattoo on a white porcelain body was quite a challenge to render, but I’m very proud of the result
Read MoreFirst studio shots with more to come. A special custom commission for a special collector, this porcelain doll features the biggest ceramic engraving I’ve ever attempted!
Read MoreI’m over the moon for this bird of paradise!
Building up skin tone through multiple translucent layers of blushing. Three firings deep into the nine firings it took to complete.
Read MorePeacock Engraving Tattoo 1st layer down, 7 more to go! The dark is my base, and now I’m gonna start making it look real pretty! For my next firing layer I’m painting the skin tone in 2 shades of Lotus and Peaches, and introducing white highlights to the feathers to make the bird POP! She is a White Peacock Queen!
Women are not State Property Incubators! The true test of freedom and liberty is allowing any person, regardless of their biological function or gender, to choose their own fate.
Read MoreWhat does this porcelain doll and the Amethyst geode she nestles in have in common? They are both Earth’s minerals, born deep inside the earth millions of years ago! They are children of the earth, and her treasures!
It moves me to think of Enchanted Dolls as Earth’s children, while the ancient process of using heat to transform brittle clay into hard, translucent porcelain, makes me feel connected to our ancient origins.
Porcelain is combination of Feldspar rock and Kaolin clay, while the Amethyst quartz grows in igneous rock.
I think it’s a huge part of why I keep choosing to work with porcelain over other, more modern, epoxy based materials - there is an ancient, natural magic in it that goes back to the begining of time and the birth of our planet. It’s Earth magic!
I’m working on a new tattooed doll. It’s been a while since I tattooed porcelain, so I was a bit nervous about being out of practice.
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