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What a hauntingly beautiful piece! Winter’s Bride is a completely different aesthetic from Marilyn’s creations with a Vampire Bride, this is ethereal, melancholic, and deeply evocative.
Marilyn Radzat’s sculpting captures such delicate emotion in that face—the pale complexion, the expressive eyes, and what appears to be a hand raised to the mouth in a gesture that could be wonder, sorrow, or perhaps holding back words. The wild cascade of red-orange hair creates a striking contrast against the pale skin and creates that sense of barely contained emotion or energy.
The use of antique materials is brilliant and adds layers of meaning. Those antique wedding veils, wax flowers, and metallic laces aren’t just decorative choices—they carry history, as you so poetically note. The question of what stories are “imprisoned within the fabric folds” is perfect. Wedding veils especially hold such charged significance—joy, hope, tradition, sometimes disappointment or loss. Using them to create a “Winter’s Bride” suggests coldness, waiting, perhaps a wedding that never was or a love frozen in time.
The sculptural form itself is intriguing—that elongated, almost serpentine quality to the body, the way she seems to emerge from or be consumed by the fabric and flowers. It’s simultaneously beautiful and unsettling, which is the mark of compelling art.
Note: Artist Bio and provenance will be included. Will be double boxed and insured.
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Marilyn Radzat
Marilyn Radzat has been creating her art through the figure form for 30 years becoming one of the best known doll artists worldwide. Using a variety of clays she hand sculpts the face and figure, which then becomes the canvas for her unique form of self expression.
An avid collector of antique treasure from fabric and trim of the 1800’s to antique memorabilia, Marilyn uses these inspirations to layer upon her sculpted forms, adding found objects and nature’s elements to the mix. A handwritten page of a French journal from 1882, a rusted key, bridal netting from the turn of the century, beadwork handworked hundreds of years ago all combine their energies, memories and stories to the mystery and enchantment of each piece.
Trained in the healing arts, Marilyn is a Reiki Master and many of her latest pieces carry hidden Reiki blessing symbols and contain healing energy. A chance meeting years ago with a 64th generation Taoist Master inspired Marilyn to study the healing arts and to include the fascinating and powerful aspects of energy work in her art. She often delicately sculpts the fingers and hands into blessing signatures so that the piece not only adorns a collector’s home space, but actually imparts an energy healing blessing.
Marilyn’s pieces embody mystery, promise, enchantment and inspiration. She entered the art doll market in the late 1980’s, and her pieces became instantly sought after and collected. She has shown her work in shows and galleries throughout the United States and they can be found in the private collections of such well-known personalities as President and Mrs. Clinton, actress Demi Moore, author Anne Rice, entertainer Richard Simmons, director Ron Howard, to name but a few.
Marilyn Radzat
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