Raggedy Anne
raggedy anne, all grown up and ready to stomp some andy with her giant black studded boots. she wears a ragged red dress of fabric painted and formed with acrylic paint, and wild bushy red hair formed from thick strokes of gesso. her body is clay and painted in acrylic. she was the first doll/figure i made when i started making them again, and the only one that looks like this; i was playing with a few different styles before i decided on one to stick with. so not only is she one of a kind, she's also one of a style, as far as my output is concerned. i believe her body is acutally sculpy, not the air-dry clay i use now, but i'm really not sure. her fingers are not articulated, her hands look more like mittens with the indication of finger length; my other dolls have very realistic fingers (and oh what agony that can be) so look carefully at her hands and notice that they are not. she stands 7" tall. Existing pieces can be shipped within a week. A custom piece such as this would take about a month to complete.
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I graduated from Columbus College of Art and Design with a Fine Arts major, emphasis on painting. I've shown and sold work in galleries, shops and festivals in the area, as well as in Chicago and Cleveland. I founded and run Cross-Media Collective, a 501(c)3 non-profit to help artists and art groups get the assistance they need, be it grants, sponsorship, or just general aid with permitting for events. We are currently fundraising for a permanent location for our events, and a gallery/workshop space, as well as a museum of miniatures, my pet project. You can read more about that at cross-mediacollective.org and columbusminiatures.org (currently under construction).
My work is very varied, running the gamut from painting to sculpture, realistic to abstract, massive to tiny. I get bored easily, and inspired easily, and no one would guess that everything I make comes from one person. Most of my work tends towards the figurative, or the anticipation of figures; I make miniature food, furniture and rooms…okay, and figures. My paintings are generally acrylic and almost always figurative. My sculptures are clay, and, again, figurative. I'm a people person, aesthetically, anyway.
I've spent the past three years renovating and decorating a very large, very old, very neglected house. My work with minis was beneficial in planning and executing the look of the house, and though I have no training in interior design, I love decor and architecture, as is evident in my miniatures, and would like to find decorators to work with, perhaps to commission a certain piece for a certain room, or work with individuals who just want an artistic eye or someone to shop with when redoing a room. Sometimes a fresh view or a second opinion is crucial.
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