Renée Tay is a member of the Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory
Renée Tay is born 1960 in San Diego, California USA and currently living along the coast of Point Loma in San Diego with my boyfriend Tayloe. She loves to travel together, especially Hawaii.
She has entertained a variety of careers that includes working in wardrobe for the San Diego Opera and traveling Broadway shows, costumed and made props for Mattel, manager for Disney, art studio manager, fish hatchery pond mucker, sold International folk art and jewelry, manager and buyer at the San Diego Symphony. In 2009, Renée create a position of Resident Artist for Fiesta De Reyes in the San Diego State Historic Park and she continue in this position to date.
There is a heart hugging and tugging love that is the soul of Renée Tay Vintage Toy Assemblage Sculptures. Once loved and forgotten dolls and toys are given a new life to be treasured and adored again. This is the core of her work.
Once in a while she come across a doll that was so loved that her hair maybe is in wild abandonment, wearing a faded frock and with one eye hazy. These special ones have brought her to tears when they arrive, and she hug them and tell them that they are loved again. This embarrasses her maturity and embraces her forever child inside. “These dolls I keep as they are to watch me and hopefully not tremble as I perform mad scientist surgery on toys….snickering”.
The need for enjoying the journey in life is entertained with the interesting quest for vintage toys and collectibles. Renée’s favorite toys are from her 1960’s childhood, but she does work with a variety of toys between the 1940’s and later. Kewpie dolls, baby dolls, rubber squeaky toys, pull toys, cartoon character banks, animal figurines, ceramic teapots and an endless array of toys and collectibles.
Her favorite place to search for toys was while vacationing in New York and digging in the muck of an old dump on Jamaica Bay in NYC, alas it is closed now. But the old toys that she pulled out and have made the best monsters for her Slumber Monster series. Renée find searching for materials to be entertaining, fulfilling and satisfying and more often than not…. surprising as to what she come across.
The process of taking toys and collectibles made out of a variety of materials with the end result havjng the illusion of porcelain is so involved. Cleaning, cutting, smashing, attaching and sculpting with Apoxie Sculpt and then 20 to 30 layers of gesso, paint, age washes and high gloss clear coat.
Renée Tay has a growing series of Vintage Toy Assemblage Sculptures that include Naughty Teapots, Slumber Monsters, Kewpie Devils, Robots with Cats, Whale Tea Party, Sea Fairies, Armchairs and more.
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