BIOGRAPHY

Welcome to the website Snobbies.nl

Nannette Schenk is a great fan of contemporary dollmaking. In the nineties she started creating busts and dolls. Spontaneously the funny
faces were born.

She enjoyed creating faces with a lot of expressions and luckily she found  the public at "Ahoy Rotterdam" and at "the Leeuwenhorst
Noordwijkerhout"  and at "Palace het Loo" were just as excited about her dolls as she was. The organizer of the "Leeuwhorst"  dollshow send pictures of her dolls  and
other doll makers to one of the biggest newspaper in the Netherlands "The Telegraaf" . Betty Red Ribbon, her first dollbust, was chosen to be in the Saturday edition.
She also had some pictures of her jesters and busts published in "The Contemporary Doll Maker" and the Dutch magazine  "Poppen" .
Some of her busts and dolls were a bit snobbish, and that is how the name "Snobbies" started.

Her dolls have been exhibited in many shops in the area where she lives. This resulted in questions to the shopowners, if she gave lessons
in doll making. At first she started giving doll making lessons at home. This was great fun, since the students wanted to make the same
funny faces.

Her first online doll lessons "Snobbies new style" were all about making the paper clay bust, She really enjoyed teaching on line, both in
English and Dutch.

For the past years she made trip to Paris, Versailles, Venice, Tuscany, Vienna etc, and was very impressed about the baroque and rococo style.
Ofcourse there were also films about the golden age, for instance "Mary Antoinette" and "Le Roi Danse"  that inspired her.

She thanks you for visiting her website and hopes you enjoyed it.