Hello! And welcome to Forlorn Dolls!
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My name is Samantha Meyers. I am an OOAK Art Doll Artist. I sculpt by hand with no molds, I sew by hand with no sewing machine. I hand paint my creations and I create my own character designs. I am inspired by Edward Gorey, John Kenn Mortensen, but most of all by the emotions of restrictions that were brought on from the Victorian Era and even some time periods which surround it. I seek to capture the soul as best as I can in my pieces. My journey into the world of Art Dolls began with my honeymoon in Salem, Massachusetts where I saw the very first piece I would ever gaze upon by Joyce Stahl of Enchanted Productions. This was my inaugural glance into the community of Doll Artisans. I quickly started to research Stahl and other artisans, at first just eager to purchase a piece of art. However, fascination at the unique art form drew me in. I was viewing something truly beautiful which I had never been privy to in art school. For years I had been searching for a calling. And suddenly I felt inspired again. Once we returned home I quickly went to work on my first Art Doll, Victoria. To this day she sits in my studio as a reminder of where I began. Above my desk is perched a beautiful Halloween Pumpkin doll by Joyce Stahl, as a little guardian and reminder of the amazing inspiration she has given me. |
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"Sweep whirling winds through weeping willow on a damp and foggy night comes the howling cries of a woman filled with desperate daunting fright. Satin slippers clumsily racing through a darkened stormy wood echo resounding bouncing from here to there as she finally emerges rattled and full of haunting despair. Pale and encrusted from head to foot with branches and leaves from her tumbles and troubles while running and dashing from unseen terrible ghouls… Our maiden appears Breathless and shaken by spectral sight, or ravaged by thoughts of death in a fort night She stumbles and gathers what strength remains and carries herself off into the waves Watching and wading, hopeless from saving she is victim to her very own notion, of terrible forsaken unavoidable plight. She is Forlorn" -Lady Forlorn, by Samantha Meyers |
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"The Skull & Skeleton in Art IV: Folk Art to Pop Culture" Show!!! Affectionately dubbed the Skelly Show....
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