Rachel Mabin's sculptures are meticulously handcrafted in her Dorset studio. Each sculpture reflects her passion for creativity and craftmanship, creating cute characters to make everyone smile!
Rachel Mabin
About sculptor & illustrator
Two of my piggies Rosie and Peaches.
I love crazy pets and being creative so my time is mainly spent working on the business and sculpting and walking my energetic dog, Lilly. I work hard and for long hours but love every minute. I love chatting to customers, sculpting, illustrating and creating graphics for the business. I always seem to have lots of meetings and decisions to make!
I can usually be found in my favourite place, sculpting or drawing in the studio, until the early hours of the morning while listening to audio books or music!
My Romanian rescue dog Lilly!
When I sculpt a new piece for the Forever Home or Paintapet collections, I begin by writing a list of ideas, creating some rough sketches and some very rough sculptures. I combine all my ideas into one very accurate master sculpture which, once finalised, is made into moulds and cast.
Once the first pieces are cast, colours are chosen, and batches are cast, ready for our brilliant painters to hand paint. Then I finally get to see the little characters. They all stand in perfect batches, waiting for their journey to new Forever Homes around the world... A long but satisfying process!
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With my bespoke sculpture commissions, I copy straight from the photographs that customers send me. This is because I am not using my imagination but am reproducing and copying the pet that is in the photographs. My customers love seeing the sculpture photographs that I send as their much loved pet appears from the clay!
Custom Commission
underway!
I would like to say a huge thank you to
all my customers and collectors around the world for their encouragement and their love for my work.
Rachel Mabin X