Her dolls have always been made with an eye toward realism of life not normally associated with children’s, collectible or artist’s dolls. Bello started sculpting figurines as a hobby a hobby and that progressed to the art of doll making. Do check there and see how much they are going for. Since internet auction all the prices of the Ashton Drake collectibles have crashed to nearly nothing. Bello, earned another prestigious award when “Heather” from the Ashton Drake Picture Perfect Babies collection was voted Doll of the Year by National Association of Limited Edition Dealers. Her design for Robins Wood’s doll “Larissa” was a 1986 DOTY winner and in 1987 another of her dolls, “Autumn”, received Dolls Magazine “Award OF Excellence”. Her winning doll was featured on “The Today Show and highlighted in USA Today. Her doll “Jessie” was the 1985 DOTY winner for Doll Design Concept sponsored by Doll Reader MAGAZINE. One of her early paintings is now in a Paris museum. Though never formally studied art her drawings, paintings, figurines and dolls have won numerous awards both locally and nationally. At fourteen years of age she came to the USA and has lived there ever since. She went to school in Venezuela, Switzerland, Canada and the United States. Yolanda Bello was born in Caracas, Venezuela and was the founder and President of Bello Creations, Chicago based company that specialized in the production of the dolls of Yolanda Bello and of other artist on contract. She has won many prizes for her dolls in major juried exhibitions, including Best of Show awards. Yolanda Bello’s work as a doll maker is known to sophisticated doll collectors throughout the country. Yolanda Bello, whose dolls are critically acclaimed for their realism, their sculptural excellence, and their rich depth of emotion, says that her goal is to design dolls that “achieve purity of expression”.
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