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Katharine Coleman MBE
G L A S S E N G R A V E R
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Little Limes Bowl II
13.2cm diameter x 6.8cmhigh lime green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished and wheel engraved 2009.
This piece will be on show from Jan 24 till June 13, 2010 at the glass centre Glazen Huis* [GH, Belgium] exhibition TASTE. This exhibition will show historical table glass as well as contemporary art and design. TASTE is an exposition about being good or bad taste, art or kitsch, about typology and oenology, about good and bad habits, about fruit and vegetables, about the taste of glass. B3920 Lommel – Belgium |
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Orange Bowls 16cm diam x 8cm high ruby over yellow glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2009. Inspired by Edo period ceramics in Japan seen in 2004 and 2005, also by the respect, care and seasonality of food presentation in Japan, this bowl is engraved in a contemporary fashion. This
piece will be on show from Jan24 till June 13, 2010 at the glass
centre Glazen Huis* [GH, Belgium] exhibition TASTE. This exhibition
will show historical table glass as well as contemporary art and
design. TASTE is an exposition about being good or bad taste, art or
kitsch, about typology and oenology, about good and bad habits, about
fruit and vegetables, about the taste of glass.
B3920 Lommel – Belgium |
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Flying Into Town Bowl 26.5cm diam x 17cm high light brown glass overlaid on clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished and wheel engraved 2009. Looking into the bowl from above is like flying over the tops of city buildings, coming in to land. This piece will be on show and for sale at Contemporary Applied Arts from 17 Nov 2009. Contact info@caa.org.uk or tel: +44 (0)207 436 2344. |
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Aoi Hana / Blue Flower 13cm diam x 9cm high blue overlaid stylised cornflower decorated bowl (no pic yet, but it is a miniature blue version of the form "Meiji Flower" but thinner petals). Just finishing it - blue overlaid clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished and wheel engraved 2009. This piece will be on show and for sale at Contemporary Applied Arts from 17 Nov 2009. Contact info@caa.org.uk or tel: +44 (0)207 436 2344.
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Small Broken China Bowl II
18cm diameter x 13cm high blue overlaid clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished and wheel engraved 2008. Inspired by shards of broken blue-white porcelain from a 13th century Chinese ship wrecked off the coast of Japan. I wondered what would happen if a curator tried to piece them together and accidentally made a bowl from pieces from different bowls. In this case, part of the pattern, the boat, comes from a small Chinese tea bowl in the Zwinger, Dresden, some English Spode “chinoiserie” and a Chinese tea bowl pattern seen in the Victoria & Albert Museum. This piece will be on show and for sale at Contemporary Applied Arts from 17 Nov 2009. Contact info@caa.org.uk or tel: +44 (0)207 436 2344. |
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First Camelia Tea Bowl
13cm diameter x 8.5cm high emerald green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal tea bowl, blown by artist with assistance in 2004 as preparatory for exhibition work in Japan 2005. The correct proportions for a ceramic tea bowl, but the balance of colours were changed for the final installation. Wheel engraved 2005. This piece will be on show and for sale at Contemporary Applied Arts from 17 Nov 2009. Contact info@caa.org.uk or tel: +44 (0)207 436 2344.
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City By Moonlight 10cm high, 7.2cm diameter, grey overlaid clear lead crystal paperweight blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished and wheel engraved 2007
This piece was recently sold. It also illustrated in NEW GLASS REVIEW 2008.
A similar piece won second prize at the 5th International Symposium for Engraving on Glass at Kamenicky Senov, Czech Republic, September 2008 and is now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Glass at Kamenicky Senov.
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The Crown Princess Takes Tea 12.5cm diam x 8.5cm high bowl, 4cm diam x 9.5cm high vase and 4cm diam x 2cm high lid stand, all in emerald green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2009. Materials for an imaginary informal summer tea ceremony made with engraved glass. The tea bowl for the Crown Princess is semi-solid. Refracted in the middle is a miniature bowl, a little clone of herself, her small daughter. She lacks a son; that this may not be her fault is not questioned. She sits in the Imperial Palace appearing to take tea, but she cannot drink out of such a bowl, so she cannot participate in society. Tea is at the heart of Japanese society. The Princess has chosen a design of cooling green camellia leaves and white camellia flowers, the plant from which Japanese tea is made. The lid stand is a reference to the ring stand for the hot lid of the water boiler.
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City Blocks Vase, 28cm high, thin grey/green overlaid clear lead crystal vase blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished and wheel engraved 2007.
Cities often seem to have more buildings than people in them. These people are both sociable and isolated. The view inside the vase of both the outside engraved pattern and the inner refracted pattern gives further interest. The countless windows permit one to look both in and out.
This piece won the inaugural Glass Sellers Prize for Engraving on Glass 2007 and was selected for "Side by Side", the Contemporary Glass Society's 10th anniversary exhibition in 2007.
This piece was sold at my exhibition at Galerie Hélène Porée, 1 Rue de l’Odéon, 750006 Paris, France. 8 - 31 October 2009.
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Little Grey Fishbowls III 12cm
diam x 8cm high smoke grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown
to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved
2009. . I like the contrast between the matt cut surface on the
outside and the dark, wet greys when viewed from inside the bowl. The
refracted images of curving forms like fish which appear on the inside
of the inner bubble appear to move when you move the bowl, the
refractions being not fixed at all. Using transparent glass, one can
see the outer engraved surface and its inner side through the polished
top surface, then the refractions, inside and out on the inside
bubble. Glass is a miraculous material and I feel that as engravers we
have barely started to examine its full potential. This piece was sold at my solo exhibition at Galerie Hélène Porée, 1 Rue de l’Odéon, 750006 Paris, France in October 2009
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Goldfishbowls VI 16cm high x 9cm diameter ruby over gold glass overlaid on clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished & wheel engraved 2009.
This piece was sold at my solo exhibition at Galerie Hélène Porée, 1 Rue de l’Odéon, 750006 Paris, France. 8 - 31 October 2009.
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Grey Utsuri Vase III 9cm
diam x 25cm high smoke grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystalvase, blown
to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved
2009. As with the grey fishbowls, I like the contrast between the matt cut surface on the
outside and the dark, wet greys when viewed from inside the bowl.
Small polished cuts on the outside (so much part of wine glass
decoration of the last centuries) appear as bubbles and allow one to
look in and observe further miniscule fish within - only they are not
really there, just a refraction from outside. Glass is a miraculous material and I feel that as engravers we
have barely started to examine its full potential. This piece is available for sale with Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon. Contact: email@adriansassoon.com or tel: +44 (0)20 7581 9888 |
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Feather Star III 14cm diameter x 7cm high ruby overlaid lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2007.
This piece was sold at my solo exhibition at Galerie Hélène Porée, 1 Rue de l’Odéon, 750006 Paris, France. 8 - 31 October 2009.
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Yellow Corals 18cm diameter x 15cm high, opaque canary yellow overlaid clear lead crystal bowl, blown to artist's design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2007.
This piece is available for sale with Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon. Contact: email@adriansassoon.com or tel: +44 (0)20 7581 9888
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Red Corals II 14.5cm high x 14cm diameter semi opaque red overlaid lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Carl Nordbruch. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2008.
This piece was sold at Contemporary Applied Arts, 2 Percy Street, London in October 2008 |
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Waltzing Crabs 15cm diameter x 17.5cm high smoke grey over laid lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Carl Nordbruch. Cut, polished and wheel engraved, 2008.
This piece was recently sold by Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon, contact: +44 (0)20 7581 9888 www.adriansassoon.com
It won The 2008 Pearsons Prize for Best Use of Engraving on Glass, sponsored by Ed Hoy's International, USA. |
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Green Barnacles Vase (left) 26cm high x 16cm wide vase with colour overlays: opaque green overlaid on opaque white on clear and one more layer of opaque white with opaque white applications, blown to my design and with my assistance by Potter Morgan Glass. Drill engraved and stained, 2007.
Inspired by celadon ware found in a 14th Century Chinese wreck off Japan.
Yellow Barnacles vase (right) 26cm high x 13cm wide vase, with colour overlays: opaque canary yellow overlaid on opaque white overlaid on clear and a further layer of opaque white, with opaque white applications, blown to my design and with my assistance by Potter Morgan Glass. Drill engraved and stained, 2007.
Inspired by Chinese ceramics found in a 14th Century Chinese wreck off Japan.
Yellow Barnacles was sold at The Scottish Gallery, and Green Barnacles sold at my showcase at Contemporary Applied Arts, 2 Percy Street, London in October 2008. |
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Singing Sardines 1 14cm high x 8.5cm diameter blue over aqua overlaid clear lead crystal vase, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished & wheel engraved 2007.
This piece was recently sold at my solo exhibition at The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh in July 2008. +44 (0)131 558 1200 www.scottish-gallery.co.uk
A similar piece, "Singing Sardines II" was sold at my showcase in October 2008 at Contemporary Applied Arts, 2 Percy Street, London. www.caa.org.uk
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Small Broken China Bowl 18cm diameter x 13cm high blue overlaid clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished and wheel engraved 2008.
Inspired by shards of broken blue-white porcelain from a 15th century Chinese ship wrecked off the coast of Japan. I wondered what would happen if somebody tried to piece them together like a jigsaw and accidentally made a bowl from pieces from different bowls. In this case, part of the pattern, the boat, comes from a small Chinese tea bowl in the Zwinger, Dresden, some Spode “chinoiserie” and a Chinese tea bowl pattern in the Victoria & Albert Museum.
This piece was on display and for sale at "Blue-White, White-Blue", an exhibition of the Galerie Handwerk, from 18 June to 1 August 2009, Handwerkskammer Fuer Muenchen und Oberbayern, Munich. |
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Ruby Sea Anemone 16cm diameter x 8cm high ruby overlaid clear crystal bowl, blown to artist's design by Potter Morgan Glass.
Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2007.
Illustrated in “House & Garden” magazine, Feb 2008.
This piece is sold. |
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Small Orange Sea Anemone 12cm diameter x 7cm high aurora roetlich (orange) overlaid clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2008.
This piece was recently sold at my showcase at Contemporary Applied Art London in October 2008 |
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Stormy Seas 5cm diameter x 5cm high A pun: a rolling prayer wheel, stormy waves rolling perpetually, viewed up or down, based on a 1950s handwriting exercise for the letter c, endured learning dip pen ‘joined-up writing’.
Blown aqua glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, cut, polished, drill and wheel engraved 2008. photo: Lucy Hunt
On display and for sale in the travelling exhibition "The Tempest", which began at the Dudley International Festival of Glass, August 2008. then touring to Zurich, currently at Studio 34 Gallery, Rochester, Upstate New York until 19th July 2009, thereafter on to Miami for the International Society of Beadmakers Annual Gathering early August before returning to UK prior to exhibition at Sars-Poteries in France for the Journee de la Perle de Verre in mid-September 2009. |
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Stargazies II 9cm long grey overlaid lead crystal ovule, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2007.
Named after the Cornish "Stargazey Pie", where small pilchards are placed in the pie dish so that their heads stick up through the pastry top. In this piece the fish tails meet to make a star (which can be seen in the refraction).
This piece was recently sold by Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon +44 (0)207 581 9888. |
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City of Glass, five pieces, 26cm high, 16cm high, 11cm, 10cm and 8cm high, all 7.2cm diameter, grey over green overlaid clear lead crystal vases and paperweights, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished and wheel engraved 2006.
Inspired by the buildings of the City of London. Window glass is greenish in colour; the buildings are recognisable by the pattern of their windows much as a face is read first by the eyes. The three smaller pieces are paperweights with highly polished bases, allowing the window pattern to continue to refract down inside the base.
This piece was part of my solo show at Zest Gallery in February 2007 where it was sold. A similar group based on the contemporary buildings surrounding the Grande Arche in Paris will be on show and for sale at my exhibition at Galerie Hélène Porée, in October 2009. Contact helene.poree@gmail.com |
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Goldfishbowls, 10cm diameter x 9cm high ruby over gold overlaid clear glass bowl, blown to my design by Neil Wilkin. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2005. It was sold at the Chelsea Craft Show, 2005.
A similar piece diameter 16cm will be on show and for sale at my solo exhibition at Galerie Hélène Poree, 1 Rue de l'Odeon, Paris from mid-October 2009. Contact helene.poree@gmail.com
The refraction of the image from the outside of the bowl onto the inside surface gives the illusion of a second bowl suspended within the outer bowl. |
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Meiji Flower, 18cm diameter 12cm high gold overlaid clear glass bowl, blown to my design by Neil Wilkin, cut, polished and wheel engraved 2006.
This piece was selected for and sold at the 2006 Dudley British Glass Biennale show. |
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Edo Orange II, 18cm diameter ruby over gold overlaid glass bowl, blown to my design by Neil Wilkin. Cut, polished and wheel engraved, 2004
(illustrated on acrylic ring stand)
It was selected for the finalists' exhibition for the Coburger Glaspreis 2006 at the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg and acquired by the Neumann Collection.
A similar piece has been acquired by the V&A Museum. In similar theme, Orange Bowls (see above) will be on show and for sale at my solo exhibition at Galerie Hélène Poree, 1 Rue de l'Odeon, Paris from mid-October 2009. |
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Chiyoda-ku, 24 cm diameter gold overlaid bowl, blown to my design by Neil Wilkin, cut, polished and wheel engraved, 2004.
This bowl represents Tokyo, the heart of Japan, with central Chiyoda-Ku, with its beautiful gardens and the Imperial Palace suspended in its centre.
This piece won an Honourable Mention Prize at the Coburger Glaspreis 2006 and was acquired by the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg.. |
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Rush Plate 15cm diameter green overlaid glass plate, blown to my design by Neil Wilkin. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2005.
Part of a body of work prepared for show in Tokyo with the British Crafts Council, 2005
This piece is for sale with The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, See www.scottish-gallery.co.uk Contact: Christina Jansen: 0131-558-1200
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Synchronised Swimmers, 12cm high blue overlaid vase, blown to my design by Patrick Stern, cut, polished and wheel engraved, 2006
A similar piece was exhibited at "Blue-White, White-Blue", an exhibition of the Galerie Handwerk, from 18 June to 1 August 2009, Handwerkskammer Fuer Muenchen und Oberbayern, Munich, Germany.
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China China, 12cm high paperweight, ruby over gold overlaid glass blown to my design by Neil Wilkin. Cut, polished and wheel engraved, 2002 |
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