Beautiful dolls by Russian artist Irina Smolnikova
Born in 1962 in the Ural city of Yekaterinburg, Irina Smolnikova is Russian artist of applied art and costume designer. According to the artist, she is passionate about dolls. In particular, collectible porcelain dolls, which are Art objects.
Irina makes her beautiful dolls of natural materials, such as porcelain, natural hair, natural silk, and leather. Also, Japanese seed beads, oil painting, realistically made glass eyes, oak, and many more. Noteworthy, the doll with a static body has a movable joint head, which enriches the doll appearance. So, you can change the turn-tilt head, immediately changing its character and mood. However, she keeps secret the technology of making delicate faces. Moscow based artist Irina Smolnikova participates in different art exhibitions, showing these charming dolls to the public. This series of her dolls titled “Seasons”, includes beautiful dolls, which she calls “my girls”, and they have names Spring, Autumn, Summer, and Winter.

Beautiful dolls by Russian artist Irina Smolnikova

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