Kun Liu Studio

Liu Kun graduated from Jingdezhen College of Ceramic Arts in 2011. After some time of struggle in metropolitan cities like the most of the college graduates, he returned to Jingdezhen town to study traditional porcelain painting and worked in a design company. As he knows more, he begins to appreciate the beauty of ceramics to a deeper level.

One day, he went to the celebrated “Letian" creative market at Jingdezhen. He was touched by seeing so many creative people presenting their own design products at the market, so he quit the job and start his journey as an independent ceramic artist.

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Wu Xia Collection

The series is inspired by an incident of a tool knife dropping onto the pottery body. Liu decides to combine ceramic art with his love of Wu Xia (Chinese martial arts stories). He explains: “I have been obsessed with TV series of Wu Xia as I grow up. I always imagine myself as a free and brave swordsman in the stories, helping the weak when I travel the world.” The design is meant to add some fun to the ordinary life.

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Ocean Waves

Apart from the fun design, Liu also likes something “quieter”.  The starting point of this series comes from a particular blue colour that he adores. "It is a colour of the profound and detached." He used his porcelain technique to make a blend of white and blue, and fired only once. The pattern design comes from Chinese and Japanese paintings of ocean waves.