Work in progress, The Pale Rook blog
Tuesday July 11, 2017 I have spent the last week reading everything I can about how to blog, and I think I am getting the hang of it! Self help books are advising me to start small and go slowly. No problem there. I have been looking at the blogs of other doll artists, and am very impressed with many of them. At the moment my favourite is The Pale Rook, written by Johanna Flannigan in Glasgow, Scotland. When I first started looking at dolls online, her haunting cloth dolls caught my attention. They are very simple, but each one has its own life and story. They are primitive, but, not. Go to her blog to see these arresting creations. She writes her blog from her heart, and one post in particular, June 2015, went viral, due, I am sure, to the way her description of her artistic journey to becoming a full-time doll artist strikes a chord with so many of us (especially women). She describes the struggle to overcome the reluctance to put yourself forward as an artist whose work is v...