A woman with an artistic view handling the everyday life "in a small perspective"
I´m very happy to have recieved a space at the Kensington Christmas Show. Maybe I´ll see you there.
Making faires, trolls and witches is one of my favourite activities. Combining soapstone, light and a fairy in a garden scene is an attempt to create a sense of mysticisim.
Some work among many others is the painting below. The troll couple was a present for my daughters wedding.
After a long break I´m back with new items. The first thing I want to show is my light pedestal, which has been developed thanks to Jennifer Smith (small scale lights). I usually use them for the translucent soap stone items, but they can be used for anything that turns out well with light.
By putting the power switch on the inside and leaving only the button visible on the outside looks much better. The pedestal light comes in two colours, Bright White and soft yellow. On the pictures below I´ve put the same resin object with different lights.
During the London Dollshouse Festival I got inspired by a lot of visitors when we talked about ancient soap-stone works. The philosopher below has got a brother that I call “The tired guy”. They are both inspired by ancient sculptures from Africa.
The first face is is inspired by an Art Deco sculpture and the others are my own creations
January 27th was a very special day. I had the opportunity to be one of the exhibitors at London´s Dollshouse Festival at the Tower Hotel in London. I was overwhelmed by all the positive feedback on my items, so my husband and I had a great day at the show. It was though an adventure to bring all the items by plane, but we managed with the project.
And the best of all! I´ll be back in London for the Kensington Dolls House Festival Christmas Show in December. I really look forward to this event. Next step is to produce a lot of new soap-stone items and lots of birds. I´ve already got started.
Birds are amazing creatures. It is fun to study their behaviour and how they move. I started to make birds from silk clay and feathers in 1:12 scale and even a few in 1:24 scale.
I thought it could be a good idea to put light to the tranclucent soap stone items to see what would happen.
The light comes from a source from below.
I´ve just bought a photo box which seems to be a great way to take pictures of small items.
First try taking pictures.
A bit blurry I think, but using a camera tripod could get more sharpness in the pictures.
I´m still amazed at all the different colours of the stones and it´s thrilling to se what will happen when the stone is polished.
Cheese plates and knives
I do love birds.
Soap-stone is a nice material if you want to make vases and other similar items. It can be quite difficult to keep this small vas (2-2,5 cm high) in your hand because it is like a slippery soap. You are lucky if it doesn´t go to pieces.
The stones varies from matte to glossy
Is it possible to make garden furniture in 1:24 scale? At first it was a bit tricky using big tools for such a small piece of stone. But when I got hold of much smaller tools I could start the Project.
Beside the bird baths and benches I also made some tables. On one of the tables I even tried to fold in a light green stone.
The benches looked so tiny so I made a lady in 1:24 and found out the bench fit perfectly for her.
Helle´s miniatures 