FELT ARTIST DOLL/Large Felt Folk Art Doll/Needle Felted popular Fish/ooak Soft Sculpture Animal/Mother's Day Gift/Dog Collectable 'Kipper'
KIPPER is no shrinking Trout - she's tall and lean and lithe!! She's obsessed with 'Fishing' - so she's modelled herself on a Fish - which is obvious for all to see - by her rather extraordinary idea of 'Fashion'!!
She found this completely bonkers Pure Silk 'Fish Tie' on her travels and proceeded to wrap it around her body and head hoping she might be mistaken for 'The Catch of the Day'!!! She's added wonderful antique buttons, a pink shell necklace and earing and - her prize posession - a gorgeous little vintage pink shell purse which she paid a fortune for!! There are two small matching needle felted fish in her cane basket - a very 'Fishy' affair indeed!!!!
Kipper is 14 inches tall x 4 inches wide (35x10cm). She has a strong wire skeleton and is extremely densely needle felted so she's really almost indestructable and really fun to play with!! What a super - very silly - unique present she would make - for anyone!!!
All my animals are entirely handmade and it takes many, many happy hours of loving 'stabbing' with needles and wool to create each little individual character - no two popular are ever remotely the same - I often feel they make themselves!!!! I prefer to create Naïve, Quirky, Fun little 'Felties' over anything realistic - letting my imagination run wild is such fun!! For more photos of all my work, please check my face book page https://www.facebook.com/jill.hutton.5477 and on instagram @ jill_hutton
My sculptures are intended as decorative display items rather than toys, the nature of their construction means they are slightly fragile. I'm afraid they are not suitable for young children. Each of my little creatures is an entirely unique work of art!!
My 'creatures' have been featured in a 'comic book' article in the June 2018 Arts Issue of Cotswold Life Magazine - a five page feature article in 'Discover Dolls' Magazine in the February 2020 Issue and also in the Spring 2020 Edition of 'Needle Felt' Magazine - both of which can be seen 'under' my reviews!!