Annie Scotland

Over the years I have made many different things but seem to have concentrated a great deal on various types of puppets and figures. Perhaps I could be described as a doll maker. I think the history of dolls is remarkable and I’m fascinated in the part they play and have played in tradition and ritual. I work mostly in wood and have developed an unusual method of construction, which involves using small discarded off cuts. I feel an attachment to trees and find it sad and wasteful when their growth is scrapped. I always use reclaimed wood. I build outwards painstakingly in little bits and shapes evolve almost without my having too much direction over them. This makes the resulting figure satisfyingly unpredictable. I then saw, cut, chisel and sand.