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About Me!
My name is Abigail Jones, known as Abby to everyone who knows me, and I have been sculpting one of a kind (ooak) polymer clay babies since 2006. I live in Southampton U.K with my gorgeous husband of 12 years and my four children, the youngest of whom, Izzy, is just 17 months old.
I've always loved art, as a child I was constantly drawing, all my exercise books at school were highly embellished with doodles, and even now no-one in my house can leave any papers around without risking them getting scribbled on! Art was always my favourite subject at school, closely followed by English. After school I did a diploma in Art, then took A-levels in Art, English and English lit. I had just secured a place at university to study a degree in fine art when I met my husband.
That was the end of my arty days for years, I was too busy building a life with my husband and raising my children to exercise my artistic skills. My sculpting career started completely
by accident, after buying a gift for my mum. She's an avid dolls house
collector, and for her birthday I bought her a book about making doll
house dolls, along with some polymer clay and tools. Although my mum
never pursued the hobby, being the creative type myself I just had to have a
go. I made a few tiny dolls, but it wasn't until I made my first one of
a kind baby that I became really hooked!
Now I make clay babies
whenever I can, I fit it in around caring for my children, who in turn provide me with lots of inspiration. When my youngest daughter was born, as well as taking lots of photographs of her beautiful face I also took many photos of her hands, feet, the top of her head, and I constantly refer to them when I'm sculpting.
Each baby starts out as a lump of clay, and I love the process of shaping each piece into a unique and realistic doll that hopefully will be loved by whoever buys it. In the early days I could never bear to part with my creations, and I consequently have quite a few dolls in my display cabinet that will never be sold!
All of my creations are true one of a kinds, I never
use moulds of any kind, and I always use photos of real babies (and sometimes monkeys) to work from. A lot of the doll's clothing is hand made too, especially with the smaller mini sculpts.
As
well as continually creating new one of a kind babies, I sometimes
undertake commissions. Maybe you have always wanted a 10 inch, Asian
baby with a cheeky smile; or a shy redhead, fast asleep and sucking her
thumb? Or maybe you want to capture your grandchilds image, a realistic lifesized doll of a
real child is a lovely keepsake. There is no set price for these
projects, cost will depend on size, time spent, materials used etc, but
I always price fairly. Please contact me for further information.
I hope you love my babies as much as I do, and please be sure to check back often for new arrivals!
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