A decorated career

According to Huang, underglaze five-colored porcelain is made following 72 steps.

When she was younger, Huang often had to draw a leaf or a petal on unfired porcelain dozens of times before making her teacher, Deng, happy with the result. "When my teacher said what I painted was not good, I had to remove the pattern and draw again, and when he said I did well, I was as happy as winning a prize," Huang recalls.

A highlight of Huang's work is a porcelain piece she calls "dawn", created in 2011, on which sparrows and quails chirp in palm trees hidden in a veil of mist, giving the viewer the impression of a forest.

"Nature is a source of inspiration for artistic creation. For those who are eager for idyllic pastoral life but live in cities, it would be a pleasure to enjoy something about nature. I wanted to create the dreamlike pastoral life for them," says Huang.

In 2000, Huang established a company to study, design and sell Liling porcelain. She also started to recruit apprentices.