Miniatura

As a child growing up in a little village near Frankfurt, Germany, Beate Klotz was always fascinated with miniatures and has been making them for the last 20 years. However, it was when she was in her late 20’s that her interest really took off when she decided to build her own dolls house. Over the years she has developed her skills working in different materials such as wood and Fimo, and with an ‘arty’ background in graphics and design, all the miniatures were unique to her.

Beate now lives in Bath Somerset and around 7 years ago she started creating and writing projects for a dolls house magazine – a job which she loved. “All my projects were created by me. I loved doing that – coming up with ideas to match themes. It was wonderful.”

From then on Beate realised that making miniatures was something she wanted to do as a living. So, she decided to try and develop her own range of miniatures with items and colours that tied well together. She found that she enjoyed working in 1/12th and 1/24th scale – and occasionally she has done a few limited-edition items in 1/48th – but says that’s not really a scale she likes to work in.

In 2018 she took the plunge of giving up her job as a teaching assistant at a primary school to concentrate on her miniatures. She chose the name Kleine Artchin, as kleine means ‘small’ in German, and Artchin is her nickname.

She is currently creating a new range of unique Christmas miniatures and admits, “I am in heaven making my little Swedish gnomes, little German iced cookies, unusual Christmas stockings and Christmas wreaths!”