RobbinAtwell

Like many artists and crafters, I've been "making things" as far back as I can remember. For my earliest creations, I secretly cut dress-shapes out of my own clothes and crudely sewed them onto my dolls. Kind aunts gave me art supplies for Christmas each year and there was nothing so thrilling as a big, blank tablet and the smell of a fresh box of oil pastels. Later, I studied art at university with an emphasis on weaving. In the following years, I worked in an office and continued to look for opportunities to make things, take classes, and get inspiration from other artists.

Recently, I've embraced my life-long love of dolls. I've found that they are the perfect vehicle to combine almost every medium that I love: fabric, yarn, paint, fashion, clay, photography... I've often managed to even incorporate metal and glass into my doll fashions. The most wonderful thing about my dolls is that they don't just languish on a shelf--you must touch.

My neighbors have noted that they expect to see the light coming from my quarter-circle attic windows late into the night. I love being sequestered in my cluttered attic studio--when things are going well, time just stands still. That's how I came to call myself the "mad wife in the attic." I hope you'll enjoy browsing my work. I have more photos of my work archived on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robbin_with_2_bs/