One artist, one bench, one kiln — and a belief that a handmade doll can carry a little of its maker’s luck into the home of its collector.

Maryna Skubenko

Doll artist · Quebec, Canada

Maryna made her first ball-jointed doll over seventeen years ago, at a kitchen table, from a block of clay that refused to become anything else. What began as curiosity became a life’s work: porcelain dolls with hand-painted souls, each one unlike any before her.

Her studio is a quiet corner of raw porcelain, dust and half-finished faces watching from the shelves. She works slowly and deliberately — a single doll can take two to three months from first sketch to final stitch.

Today, Wee Lucky Charms dolls live with collectors in more than twenty countries. Maryna still answers every inquiry herself, still paints every eyelash herself, and still names each doll before she lets her go.

Dolls magazine December 2010 Autour de I'Ile June 2015
L'officiel China September 2016
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