Maive Ferrando

​Maive Ferrando is a polymer clay artist, sculptor and jewellery designer who adores miniature cakes and turning them into sweet wearable art. She sees sculpting as an extension of her passion for storytelling, and her love for mini cakes expresses the happiness she felt when baking as a child with her grandmother. Originally from Argentina, Maive now lives in South East England with her boyfriend and a bunny. She has a wide following on social media where she regularly shares her work. Her Polymer Clay Story... ...begins in 2011, when her mother-in-law handed her her first blocks of FIMO. At the time, she had a growing interest in baking, which translated into almost an obsession for making miniature cakes and cake-themed jewellery.​ In 2012/13 she started sharing her work on Youtube, both as a way to teach but also to document her own progress and therefore learn at the same time; techniques which are now widely used by other artists as well. In October 2019 her first book “Miniature Cake Creations” was published by GMC Publications and she saw her first collaboration with “Doll House & Miniature Scene” magazine, to which she is now a regular contributor. When she's not sculpting... ...she's listening to music, singing, playing guitar, reading or writing. Some of her favourite authors are Charlotte Brontë, Rachel King, Eileen Ramsay, Alice Hoffman, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Elio Vittorini and Jules Verne. She enjoys doing a bit of photography, baking, painting, swimming and playing tennis, travelling and spending time with her bunny.