The Ashton Drake Galleries provides information brochures on their doll artist and their design. The following information is what they provided on Ms. Bilotto:
“Artist and sculptor Sandra Bilotto has been recognized throughout the collectibles industry for her expessive and elegant work. She has worked with leading collectibles firms and design studios to create some of the most eagerly sought collectibles art of recent times. her specially is the creation of fine porcelain fashion dolls.”
The brochure goes on to talk about Ms. Bilotto’s She Walks in Beauty collection:
” For every season of the year, there is a mood…a look…a vision of eternal beauty. And nowhere is that captured better than in the magnificent ensemble of a bride. Doll artist Sandra Bilotto takes this idea as the simplest of inspirations for her magnificent bride doll collection called She Walks in Beauty. For it is simple things, like the fragrance of flowers on the breeze, or a lovely palette of seasonal colors, that guides her designs.
Through the eye of the artist, each bride in the collection carefully chooses her gown and flowers to reflect the time of year in which she is wed. The Winter bride chooses a gown of white floral jacquard, satin, sparkling rhinestones and touches of “fur.” The Spring bride wears a gown with a lace bodice, tip-of-the-shoulder neckline and a skirt of billowing organza, and she carries a bouquet of delicate spring flowers. Summer welcomes the bride who reveals in floral elegance. Her gown has showy floral details, culminating in a cascade of magnificent fabric roses down the skirt back. She wears matching flowers in her hair. The Autumn bride completes the collection, in her gown of ivory beaded lace, a skirt with matching lace in sets, and a two-tied veil. She carries a colorful fall bouquet to salute the season in her own way.
Each season serves as the perfect backdrop for the bride to display her individual tastes and highlight her own coloring. Each values tradition, yet her own beauty shine through on this most memorable day!”
