As excitement about the Spring show mounts there’s a lot to tell you. I thought you might enjoy catching up with some of the artists featured in previous Midweek Miniaturas, so first up is Julie at Bella Belle dolls who has gone a little bit nursery rhyme and a lot unusual with this:
Let’s hope Julie is not in the mood for pudding before Miniatura!
Doll makers are often among the first up, best dressed for shows, mainly because there is such a lot of work in making and dressing a doll. Teresa from Costume Cavalcade has new (and beautifully ready) Percival and Pandora in formal costumes of the 1770s
who don’t look as if they’ll be running anywhere, though a spot of parading up and down might not come amiss. Teresa says she has a number of new characters this show.
Carol Smith has been exhibiting at Miniatura for 21 years. I don’t know if this qualifies her for the key of the door at the NEC or whether she’ll just have to roll up at the crack of dawn with everyone else; though if she is early, Carol is just the person to get the breakfast going. Here are just a few items from her range of pickles and preserves:
These are much smaller than they look
I wonder what we could find on Carol’s stand to go with them?
Oh yummy! Carol achieved artisan status with IGMA (The International Guild of Miniature Artisans) in 1996. Carol specialises in foods of many kinds including cakes, patisserie and sweets. She also makes witchy items
and is absolutely wizard at it, as you can see.
If you looked around you could find a lovely new dresser to accommodate Carol’s goodies on the stand of Malcolm’s Miniatures.
Malcolm will be showing the first of a new range of shops in 24th scale at the show. For those fresh to the hobby I should perhaps explain that in 24th scale everything is one twenty fourth the size of life in every dimension. This opens up many possibilities and Malcolm has cleverly designed his shops so that they will sit side by side and build into a street scene. In this scale you could fit a parade of shops on a deep windowsill or a shelf of a bookcase.
Worth popping along to Malcolm’s stand to see if it’s right up your street, I’d say.
That’s enough for just a little taster of the show. All the artisans mentioned will have made enough miniatures to entirely cover the top of a table, which, in some cases, is itself covered with a tall set of stepped shelves, by the end of the next three and a half weeks. Many of them will be sleeping only grudgingly and eating as quickly as possible.
Which reminds me, I’m a little bit peckish. I wonder if Carol could rustle me up a salad?
Full details of the show, links to the sites of artisans and further gallery pictures of their work at www.miniatura.co.uk.
Talking of links to artists, have you checked out the links on this site yet? You can find them by simply clicking on the word ‘links’ to the right. There’s a world of artists waiting for you to surf their way, including Bella Belle dolls and Costume Cavalcade.
Added to the list very soon will be Malcolm’s site: www.malcolmsminiatures.co.uk
and Carol’s virtual shop: www.etsy.com/shop/STARSGEMINI3
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