miniaturist

She’s more of a miniaturist than a maximalist, though the volcanic emotion she taps into is its own theatrical force.

She soon developed a real passion for her creations, so much so she's now become the resident miniaturist for The Museum of the Home in Hoxton, London.

Reichardt and Hong have often been classified, sometimes condescendingly, as art-house miniaturists, but the worlds they create and invite us into are too enveloping, too precise in their details, to feel anything less than enormous.

Swinton is a wonderful chameleon and while she can go as big and showy as any Oscar contender, she is also a brilliant miniaturist.

In turn, some critics found him short of original ideas and dynamism, a miniaturist unable to sustain longer pieces.