Renata Jansen

2023 - This  artist creates exceptional work.  Renata has also completed a brand new LARGER "Alice" for us that is a 14" size and she is AMAZING. She has a cloth body and sculpted head, hands and legs. She wanted to go up a bit in size and in order to do this and be able to ship she created a custom cloth body for her. She is just listed and available now.

Also - New work is shown below but we are keeping her busy with custom orders so be sure to ask about what you may fall in love with.  Brand new listiing "Teapot" Alice is fantastic! Take a look at those adorable teapot shoes! We are taking custom orders for all kinds of themes. We have an Exclusive on Alice as we as an EXCLUSIVE dealer agreement with her and are excited about letting all of our clients know about her amazing work. Renata is from the UK. We have worked with her since 2018 when she worked on a very special custom project with the Dollery and the "Kings of Leon" band. Scroll way down below to view that project.

Portait work - please, don't miss the amazing custom portrait doll Renata created for one of our preferred dollery clients. The attention to detail is amazing and the likeness to the client... wow...right down to the designer dress, shoes, hair cut and ring! Inquire on your custom order. Email - kmalone@dollery.com

Be sure to scroll all the way down this page to view many, many amazing diverse pieces Renata has created. We have also  listed just a couple of her amazing works of art that were created and purchased by the Dollery clients this year.

"Alice in Wonderland" lovers- be sure to view the three previous works by Renata below incuding her little Alice with the teacup fantasy shoes and the new "teapot alice".  We are taking custom orders for similar pieces while allowing her to have creative freedom as well. We would love to hear your ideas and work with you on your custom Alice! Email kmlaone@dollery.com.

Again, we have just updated our site with MANY PREVIOUS DOLLS that Renata has created. These are all SOLD; HOWEVER, we are taking custom orders for very similar pieces and themes all the time with her. Be sure to contact  kmalone@dollery.com or call 781-248-2464 asap for your custom order or to be on our mailing list for her amazing work!

How they are made!  Renata's dolls are small - usually in the 12" inch size or under. They are true works of art. Also note, The clothign on the majority of her dolls is all hand sculpted! It looks like fabric but it is not always! See below!

From Renata - My dolls are made from polymer clay over a wire armature. I use Cernit and Fimo as I find those clays very reliable, and strong. I paint all my dolls with Genesis heat set paint, I find after baking in the oven the paint looks bright and really part of the clay.  It has a nice matt finish. I mainly use silk and occasionally man made fibres to clothe my dolls.  I use Alpaca for my dolls hair as it is very fine and soft and sometimes I use viscose fibre which is also very fine.I make my own eyes, they are resin with a clear resin dome over coloured clay for small figures. For the larger ones I use a resin eye with a Swarovski crystal cabochon for the dome which is painted with heat resistant glass paint.

  bio:Artist biography: Renata lives  in Warrington, England with her husband.  She is 51 and has one daughter and a grandson of three. She  worked as a textile designer for 12 years until the design industry moved towards computer design.  She had been very old school with her paints and brushes.  After that Renata spent a year teaching herself to paint in oils which she really enjoyed but then her daughter wanted to make bracelets to sell at her school for charity and she thought it would be fun to sculpt little faces for them out of fimo. She researched sculpting faces on the internet and found one of a kind figures.  From that moment on she said she was obsessed. She had never sculpted before but she found it felt more natural to her than painting.

Renata has been sculpting one of a kind figures for about 15 years  and she said she still gets excited for every new project. She just loves it! She said she always finds ways to include as much painting into her figures as she can by giving them large tattoos and I she goes back to her roots as a textile designer as often as she can by painting as many flowers as she can on her figures!

Renata has primarily worked in the 11'-12' inch size because her bodies are fully sculpted; however, recently she has created in the 15" scale. She may also in the future work with some cloth and clay pieces to increase the size to 18". Right now, orders would be 15" maxium.

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