Title: "Hong Kong Dreaming II" by Katharine Coleman (2021)
Techniques: Wheel and drill engraved
Description: 18cmH x 18cm diameter blue glass overlaid on clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished, wheel and drill engraved. Hong Kong seems to belong now to the East and yet still clings on tenaciously to the West. Today this situation has become grave. On my bowl, the great dragon of China has lost the pearl of wisdom from his mouth and now careers around, breathing wild fire over the roofs of the modern apartment blocks of Hong Kong, roaring at everyone and everything in wild abandon and maddened rage at their impudence. People take to the boats to flee as others arrive. I wanted the piece to imitate Chinese porcelain goldfishbowls (to emphasise the helplessness of the inhabitants).
Photographer: Sylvain Deleu
Title: "Bermondsey Street Bowl" by Katharine Coleman (2021)
Techniques: Wheel and drill engraved
Description: 20cm H x 22.5cm diameter grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Loco Glass of Cirencester. The old buildings of Bermondsey Street lend themselves to wrapping around this bowl and wrapping around Peter Layton’s London Glassblowing Gallery, for whose 45th anniversary I engraved this bowl.
Photographer: courtesy of Peter Layton
Titlle: "Goldfishbowls IX" by Katharine Coleman (2021)
Techniques : Wheel and drill engraved
Description : 13.8cm high x 17cm diameter ruby on yellow glass double overlay on clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved.
Photographer : courtesy of Adrian Sassoon.