'' Warm, earnest, naive, dreamy, worried or distracted little people. Live creatures, just stiffened for
a while, lost in reminiscences and in whimsical episodes of life. Dolls, reminding their creator. Mystical.
Charmed by the needle, by the warmth of palms and by feelings…''
Quotation from the article '' The doll time'' by Virginija Majoroviene
Hello, I'm the doll maker Jurate Jaseviciene . Living and creating in Vilnius, Lithuania.
From child years wanted to be an artist, but transmutation of fortune- started to study in Vilnius
University not arts (unfortunately). So, in studies years, trying to alleviate the hunger of creative,
started to make dolls. And the doll's world just caught me! First my dolls were simple rag dolls,
later they started to become more advanced. As nobody tough me how to make cloth dolls, every
mystery of technique I found myself. It was great years of discovering doll's world!
After some years, when I felt, that just tired a little from cloth as material for dolls, decided to try to
sculpt. As didn't want to spend years again for discovering clay as material, took classes from
famous Dutch doll artist Marlaine Verhelst. Started to sculpt dolls from air drying clay, later I've
found paper clay as material for dolls. At the moment mostly I'm working with clay, but sometimes
returning and to cloth dolls and making one or few cloth dolls-''for reminding old good cloth souls
'' as I say.
My ''little souls'' (as I calling all my dolls) living in private collections in much countries in
Europe, USA, South America, Scandinavia, Russia, even in Philippines. People find my dolls different way-as
through internet, as through galleries, as through private recommendations of people who admire my works.
Now my ''career'' in doll's making is counting 15 years, and I still discovering this magic,
mysterious, indefinable doll's world. Discovering with singing soul and open heart.
Sometimes the destiny just finds us if we try to forget our wishes. The same happened with me- in
youth years I've tried to run farther from creative world, but through doll's world I returned there back.
Wishing, returned forever.