June 30, 2017

Miniature Masterworks: Vicky Sanfield

Vicky Sanfield handcrafts 1:12, 1:24, and 1:48 scale wicker furniture and baskets. After working in the interior design industry for seventeen years, she purchased two House of Miniatures kits at...

June 28, 2017

Miniature Masterworks: Robert Dawson

Robert Dawson’s work ranges from individual pieces of furniture and room settings to entire houses and palaces. Originally a theatre designer, he ran the model room at the English National...

June 26, 2017

Miniature Masterworks: Patrizia Santi

Patrizia Santi’s 25 years as a dressmaker specializing in leather easily translated to 1:12 scale. She incoporates the latest fashion and furnishing trends into her modern shoes, boots, and bags....

June 23, 2017

Miniature Masterworks: Althea Crome

Althea Crome is a self-taught fiber artist who combined her love of knitting and fascination with miniatures into her career of conceptual miniature knitting. With tiny silk threads and homemade...

June 21, 2017

Miniature Masterworks: María José Santos

Maria José Santos sees her porcelain figures as a wonderful way to combine her passion for art, historical costumes, and dance. After learning classical techniques for pouring, polishing, baking, and painting...

June 19, 2017

Miniature Masterworks: Frank Crescente

Frank Crescente creates miniature chandeliers and once built a model of the Titanic’s grand staircase to properly showcase his exquisite lighting fixtures. With a background in architecture and interior design,...

June 16, 2017

Miniature Masterworks: Masako Sharra

Masako Sharra is attending Miniature Masterworks as an Emerging Artist, a special designation recognizing new and rising talent in fine-scale miniature making. After moving to the United States from Tokyo,...

June 14, 2017

Miniature Masterworks: Nell Corkin

Nell Corkin creates original, landscaped buildings in 1:144 scale. Her first miniature was a shoebox house made at the age of five. In the 1980s, she made her first 1:144...

June 12, 2017

Miniature Masterworks: Brooke Rothshank

Brooke Rothshank is a children’s book illustrator and fine-scale miniature painter. Her subject matter, painted in watercolor or egg tempera, is often influenced by what is happening in her life....