Studio Art Pottery Stoneware Bowl by Marty Morgan

   I was just going through my studio pottery collection while organizing my cabinets, etc, so I decided to post about this bowl I picked up a couple weeks ago at a local thrift shop.

I love it when I get an identifiable piece, and I was able to get confirmation from the artisan potter her self that crafted this beautiful bowl a few years ago, Marty Morgan, whose studio is located in Gloucester, Massachusetts, which is only a couple towns North of me.

I was told by Ms Morgan that this stoneware bowl was made of cone 10 stoneware, fired in a gas kiln, and glazed with a Rutile blue over a glossy white glaze creating the lighter blue overlap color over the orange/brown, etc..

Artisan Studio Pottery Hand Crafted by Hector Marrero, Puerto Rico

  Although I have acquired several more studio pottery pieces for my collection over the last few months, I haven't been keeping up with identifying the artisans & posting about them here on my Studio Pottery Blog.

The problem is mostly because "studio pottery" is pretty much any & all pottery that is hand made and the fact is, there are countless thousands of people who make or have made pottery, the majority of them unknown and certainly not famous, so, often is virtually impossible to identify who made it, when it was made and so on.

Today however, I was able to immediately identify the maker of a studio pottery vase I found in a local thrift shop.  It is signed Marrero Puerto Rico.   A quick Google search led me to a video on YouTube, featuring the artisan who made this pot, Hector Marrero.  

Artisan Hector Marrero from Guaynabo Puerto Rico masters the art of wheel thrown ceramics