Manufactory
Karin Bablok
About the object: With a diameter of 10 cm and aheightof 9 cm, the shimmering black metallic Matcha bowl made of porcelain sits comfortably in the hand. The high-quality porcelain impresses with its smooth surface and elegant appearance, making it ideal for preparing and enjoying matcha tea. The surface features a delicate depiction of grassesin 24-caratgold, drawn with sweeping strokes, which shines particularly brightly on the dark glaze. The matcha bowl features fine irregularities deliberately created by the artist, which produce gentle shading and give the chawan a lively, personal touch. Convince yourself of the uniqueness of this extraordinary piece.
Production: The Audrey Blackman porcelain matcha bowls are shaped by Karin Bablok on the wheel and then finished with traditional Chinese glazes that are carefully matched to the special properties of the porcelain. For her vessels, the artist uses a deep black basalt glaze, a bright pink glaze and a delicate, light blue Ru glaze, which originated in the Song dynasty. The chawan are fired at 1,300 °C. Some matcha bowls are additionally decorated with filigree accents made of 24-carat gold or decorative sliding pictures, which are fired at 750 °C and permanently fixed. In this way, each matcha bowl is created as a unique piece with its own look and feel.
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Karin Bablok discovered the potter's wheel at the age of thirteen. The stillness and concentration of working with clay gave her a freedom that fascinated her from the very beginning. Two years later, she already knew that she wanted to become a ceramist and learn how to turn. After leaving school, she trained as a wheel thrower in Scheidegg in the Allgäu region, where she learned the craft from scratch.
In the years that followed, she worked in workshops in Ireland and the USA, deepening her knowledge of the craft and encountering different ceramic traditions. She later studied at the Institute for Artistic Ceramics in Höhr-Grenzhausen and at the Koblenz University of Applied Sciences, where influences from art history and painting enriched her work. Her professional career was accompanied by study trips that took her to China, Japan and South Korea, among other places.
Today, she works in her own studio and fires her ceramics in a gas kiln, which brings out the special properties of her preferred material, porcelain, in the best possible way. Porcelain fascinates her with its purity, silky sheen and delicate translucency, but always remains a demanding challenge. At the center of her work is the vessel, whose form, proportion and surface she explores down to the finest nuances.
Karin Bablok's vessels become a painting surface after they have been formed. In her linear painting, a precise interplay of lines connects interior and exterior space, whereas in her free painting, gestural compositions are created, carried by inner images and intuitive movements. Impressions from nature increasingly flow into her work. The garden around her studio, with its grasses, willow branches and leaves weighed down by the rain, is echoed in her gestural paintings. The result is not direct depictions, but situational traces of movement and atmosphere.
The artist writes about her work: "Repetition calms my mind. Through repetition, variations of a unique piece can be found. Those who love detail, including myself, like the nuanced play of proportions, the shifting of point and line by millimetres."
