PAIGE BARNES DORSEY

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Paige Barnes Dorsey is a self-taught, mixed media artist living in the Deep South. With a background in interior design, a love for handmade objects, and the inability to sit still, she began sculpting at the beginning of lockdown 2020. Taking traditional elements and marrying them with unexpected whimsy, she creates modern heirlooms for the next generation. Each piece is hand-sculpted using a technique all her own then hand-painted, making no two alike. When she isn't charming snakes she's doing laundry for her 2 little girls, listening to records with her husband or drinking wine while cooking up something delicious in the kitchen ... often all at once. 



Growing up amongst nature and Southern tradition, her "Garden Party Snakes" explores the dichotomy of the two. Beauty and danger go hand-in-hand here, one never without the other. Traditional elements of fine china in the shape of a creature feared for millenia represent polite society; and reminds us that often it's not the garden snakes you should fear, it's the ones sitting around the table at the garden party.