Catherine Mather, a history and more.
Residing on the South Coast of Eastern Australia, Catherine Mather has been involved with porcelain dolls since 1986. Having a background of several years working with masquerade costumes, creating anything from "Pink Hippopotamus" to "Marie Antoinette", ( After completing 3 years of Fashion Design Collage of course) led the way into sculpting a doll, in her own style. Victoria was Catherine's first original doll in 1988, an Edwardian child doll laying on her tummy, lost to the world reading her favorite story book.
Catherine's love is in sculpting full porcelain bodies, and these can be a real challenge, Grace was the first full porcelain body, a gentle young girl, sitting with her leg's gracefully drawn to the side, dressed again in Edwardian style costume, she was very popular, being unique, because of her sitting position in full porcelain at that time. Grace L.T.D series sold out. ( Grace mould sets are available )
Working in two fields, could dolls with a L.T.D of the same doll sculpture, and exclusive L.T.D series of doll sculptures only, no moulds or smaller dolls.
Catherine's limited Edition Artist Dolls are truly artist dolls, where the artist does all the work, from creating the sculpture in clay, moulding, designing the costume and sewing it! Hand making the accessories is a special part of the work that Catherine loves, like the Egyptian Queen Tyie's beautiful 24ct gold guided headdress, hip belt and sandals, this attention to detail in her work, is the professional and personal touch that collectors find fascinating.
Catherine Mather has been sculpting original art dolls for well over 10 years and is well respected for her artistry and originality in doll design. Producing limited edition collectable art dolls and commercial mould designs for the hobby doll market. Catherine has a good working knowledge of all facets of the doll industry. Her ability to translate images in to clay has come from her observation of the human body, and is an on going learning experience which she expresses in her realistic positioned, full porcelain art dolls.
