Shortly after I started making and selling dragonflies I was asked by a lady friend if I could make her a fairy, and for how much?  So I looked at the market. The only wire fairies I could find were wire wrapped, stainless steel or galvanized steel wire. No wire artists were putting faces on their fairies /figurines.

I soon discovered why, trying to make beautiful females face in wire in any size is by far the hardest thing I have ever tried to make. I really love a challenge, what drives me is working out how to do something. Taking an engineering approach, I made a stick wire figurine to define the pose, not just the position of her arms and legs, also the twist of her back as she pulls back the bow string, I am trying to put energy into her pose.   The “Ideal Proportions of a Female body” is 8 head units, a head 18cm x 8 = 144cm overall height, this is my starting point. An armature is made, very importantly the pose is decided. 

After about 8 months I had produced my first prototype fairy in an archer pose. I could see all the imperfections long before I had even finished her, but I pressed on because I knew the next one would be much better.