Pierce Brosnan’s Enduring Passion Takes Shape In New Porcelain Series

You’d recognize him for his acting chops—from Mrs. Doubtfire to the Bond series, where he delivered the lead role’s iconic line “Bond. James Bond” with perfect inclination for four films. But before he was a fictional secret agent, Pierce Brosnan had an earlier passion: visual art. That long-standing passion now finds tangible form in So Many Dreams, a limited-edition porcelain collection that translates the Irish actor and film producer’s ink sketches into three sculptural vases.

Created in collaboration with designer Stefanie Hering, founder of German artisan porcelain studio Hering Berlin, the collection is limited to just 25 sets—at the time of this writing, only seven remain. All proceeds benefit the British charity King’s Trust.

Brosnan’s first creative role wasn’t in front of a camera, but behind a sketchbook. At 16, he left school to become an apprentice in a small advertising studio. “I was one of four artists,” he recalls. “My job was to make tea, water the plants, do paste-up work—and practice drawing straight lines.”

That early discipline stayed with him. Despite decades of acting acclaim, Brosnan’s urge to draw never waned. In recent years, his creativity has taken the form of expressive ink drawings—doodles scribbled on pads his wife Keely placed around their homes in California and Hawaii.

“There are by now hundreds of these automatic drawings…which come from conversations while on the phone,” he says, citing Henri Matisse as a key influence. Some of these works evolved into larger pieces featured in So Many Dreams, Brosnan’s first solo exhibition, held in May 2023. It was during Art Basel Miami Beach later that year that Brosnan met Hering, which sparked a new collaboration: So Many Dreams, the porcelain edition.

The three vases—Mirage, Tryst, and Solitude—share the forms of Hering’s signature Tropo vases, each with a subtly asymmetrical silhouette and rounded triangular base. The tallest of the trio, Tryst, resembles a self-portrait of Brosnan and measures 16.5 inches. Solitude, the widest at 8.3 inches, depicts an eye peeking out from a dense tropical jungle.

Like all Hering Berlin porcelain, the pieces are crafted at Porzellanmanufaktur Reichenbach, which has operated in Reichenbach, Germany for over a century. The surface’s velvety texture is achieved by a particularly luxurious manual finish, a sponge made of diamonds, and each vase is fired at up to 2,550°F—a temperature that vitrifies the surface, making it both translucent and stain-resistant. “You can even put the vases in the dishwasher—if you have one big enough,” Hering laughs.

The collection is available through Hering Berlin.