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Artist: Isabel Adonis
Wales, United Kingdom

Isabel's Statement :

In my case my journey of artistic rediscovery leads me back to my Welsh mother whose passion fed my love of cloth and of 'making do' with what one had.

 

As a result I have always made things:cushions, curtains.cloth paintings quilts and dolls. I sometimes paint with bright colours on pieces of waste board. Making dolls have been especially important in transforming my life, especially my black dolls. As a child our home in Africa was full of religious artefacts. My father, an African Caribbean studied and wrote about the sacred art of Africa. And it was this study of African iconography, along with the sewing skills I learnt from my mother which inspired my 'spiritual dolls'

 

My original doll was called 'black girl' and I made it represent what is dark and feminine -she is the inner space as a repository of sadness and the well of happiness. Such is the transformatory power of art that a few weeks later after I made her I began to write.  And I've been writing ever since!

 

Isabel blogs at http://bethesdamoonmaking.blogspot.com