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Eileen was born and grew up in the North-East of England, and has
worked in art and design for over 25 years. She has a BA Honours degree in Fine Art and a Post Graduate
Certificate in Education. Eileen worked as an artist
and designer for a time before taking up a temporary post in a local school. She went on to teach general art and design at Secondary level (GCSE
and A Level) for over 10 years, and also specialised in large hand-built ceramic work. She left full time teaching in 1996 before the birth of her first
child, and recently has had some experience of working as a volunteer with
primary age children.
See some pictures
of Children’s work here. Eileen lives and works in the UK in South Northamptonshire. |
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Eileen Sedgwick Artist Doll
Maker Unique Twelfth Scale
Figures |
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“I have always
enjoyed art and making things. I love drawing and painting, but also work in
collage, printmaking, textiles, ceramics, and other 3-D things like papier-mâché, and
recently in polymer clays. I sometimes combine these ways of working in
mixed-media pieces which I enjoy. I work from life wherever possible, often
from things I’ve collected. I also take photographs, and work from memory, and
imaginatively, sometimes allowing the materials and the work itself suggest
what might come next. Where I work now I have no room for a kiln, and I
missed working in clay. I had time when I stopped teaching to experiment with some polymer
clay I’d been given as a present. Having had dolls houses since childhood, I started by making tiny food
and ornaments, and just got hooked! I began making twelfth-scale figures in 2003. I really love making
these, and although they’re extremely fiddly and time-consuming, they
seem to combine a lot of skills I
enjoy. There’s a point where the character you’re doing seems to come to
life, and it’s just magical.” Eileen Sedgwick
2008 |