GREGORY GYLLENSHIP

Teddy Bear Artist

Gregory Gyllenship © 2011

Grisly Teddy Bears

Designed to stand on all fours

Hastings - 2009

Six Joint Bear approx 22 inches nose to tail

Vintage boot button eyes

Set and Polished nose embroidery

Applied and sculpted felt foot detail

The grisly bears usual;ly have six joints, the extra one at the neck enabling extra movement to position the head.

Although these are designed to emulate their “wild” cousins’ habit of walking on all fours I like to make sure they are still very much Teddy Bears.   My objective is to capture something of the shape, proportion and posture of a wild bear .  I use my preferred vintage boot buttons eyes and the nose embroidery is usually set and polished.

Walton - 2009

Approx 22 Inches

Vintage boot button eyes

Set and polished nose

Wool felt paw pads

Apologies for rather hasty mobile phone pictures but I wanted to include this recent bear

Buster - 2008

20 Inches Nose to tail

Dense Black Mohair Plush

Vintage shoe button eyes

Wool felt paw pads

Set and Polished Nose

Edition of 12 Bears for My Friends and Me

These two are a slightly smaller design

around 15 to 16 inches nose to tail