The Shockingly Realistic Porcelain Flowers of Olesya Galushcenko
Looking at the beautiful bouquets of Ukrainian artist Olesya Galushcenko, it’s hard to believe that all the flowers aren’t actually real but made of hard porcelain. Olesya Galushcenko is a hydraulics engineer who got into porcelain flower making as a personal challenge. Seven years ago, during maternity leave, she decided to take on an artistic […]
Vietnamese Man Decorates Home With Almost 10,000 Porcelain Dishes
A Vietnamese man obsessed with traditional porcelain dishes and antiques has spent the last 25 years of his life decorating his house with almost 10,000 porcelain bowls, plates and urns. Nguien Van Truong first fell in love with porcelain antiques in 1986, a year after being discharged from the army and returning to his home […]
Cruel Artist Creates Decadent Desserts Out of Porcelain and Glass
Shayna Leib’s French desserts may look delicious, but they are only meant to be savoured with the eyes. While these exquisite treats may appear to be the work of a talented confectioner, Leib is actually a porcelain and glass artist. If, like me, you have an insatiable sweet tooth, you’re probably wondering how anyone could […]
The Amazingly Intricate Porcelain Skulls of Katsuyo Aoki
Japanese artist Katsuyo Aoki uses ceramics to create the most intricate skulls you’ve ever seen. Decorated in rococo style, her amazing works of art incorporate various lacy, swooping patterns and tendrils that make these symbols of death look beautiful. You’ll probably never look at a skull the same way after seeing the amazing artworks of Katsuyo Aoki. The […]
The Stunningly Beautiful Porcelain Flowers of Vladimir Kanevsky
Ukrainian-born artist Vladimir Kanevsky creates exquisitely handcrafted porcelain flowers that look perfectly natural, but never die. From hyacinths and chrysanthemums to clematis and hollyhocks, Vladimir Kanevsky makes botanically-perfect flowers from porcelain. Inspired mostly by 17th- and 18th-century European botanical prints, but also by the glass flower collection at Harvard University’s Museum of Natural History, the talented artisan has […]
The Fragile Porcelain House of Tianjin
Zhang Lianzhi, a 50-year-old porcelain collector from Tianjin, China, has spent four years decorating an old house with hundreds of millions of ancient porcelain fragments and tons of natural crystals. It’s now known as the Porcelain House or Yuebao House. The Porcelain House of Tianjin opened its gates to the public on September 2nd, 2007, […]
Porcelain Dragon Is Made from 2,800 Porcelain Dishes and Cups
The Songjiangcheng scenic spot, in Yangzhou, China, has become an even more popular tourist attraction, thanks to a unique dragon statue made of over 2,800 porcelain dishes and cups. The 30-meter-long installation is made up of a metal frame, upon which porcelain dishes and Chinese tea cups were masterfully placed to form a realistic-looking dragon. […]
The Twisted Porcelain Dolls of Jessica Harrison
I’ve featured some bizarre dolls before, but Jessica Harrison’s creations are damn right twisted. I luv’em! These ghastly ceramic figures look like something you’d expect to find on the dinning room table of a serial killer, but they’re actually the work of a talented artist with a taste for the bizarre. Sure, a young lady […]
The Amazing Porcelain Costumes of Li Xiaofeng
Li Xiaofeng is one of China’s most original artists, using broken porcelain shards to create unique wearable costumes. Li Xiaofeng began his artistic career as a muralist, but quickly turned his attention to sculpture, in order to explore the concept of Chinese landscapes. Instead of the materials usually used in this art form (marble, wood […]