About the Artists

Process

Stoneware

Porcelain

Events

Marty Morgan

Marty has been known for her elegant functional stoneware and porcelain pottery for over thirty years.  As a college student in the 60’s, Marty abandoned her intention to become a French teacher in order to pursue pottery.  She studied with Frances Trapp at the Boston Museum School for several years, and in 1968 moved to Carmel, California and joined Peninsula Potters Cooperative where she learned how to fire high-temperature gas kilns and did extensive glaze testing.  She has studied with Daniel Rhodes and other well-known potters.  Marty returned to the East Coast in 1972, and opened a retail crafts gallery and teaching studio in Manchester by the Sea, MA.  In 1979 she moved to her present home on the Mill River in Gloucester, MA and turned the garage into her studio and showroom. 

The coastal landscape of granite, water, and ever-changing light provides year-round inspiration for Marty's work, and is reflected in Cape Ann Clay's collaborative sculptural tile creations.  The rich glazes and textural qualities of the work speak to Marty's technical expertise and outstanding artistic sensibilities. 

Pat Pandolfi

Pat became interested in pottery in the late nineties, when a friend donated a wheel and small electric kiln to her husband who wanted to "play with clay."  After observing him and other friends practicing on the wheel for several months, Pat decided to give it a try.  She was immediately attracted to the fluid qualities of clay, and she spent several years learning the intricacies of wheel work, hand building, and glaze development. 

Pat was still a struggling, mostly self-taught potter working alone in her studio in Rockport when she met Marty.  She was attracted to the graceful lines and rich glazes of Marty's stoneware vessels, which conveyed the technical expertise and aesthetic confidence of an experienced potter.   Finally, in the summer of 2004, she gathered the courage to walk into Marty’s studio and volunteer to be her apprentice, doing whatever needed to be done.  This fortuitous decision eventually led to the creation of Cape Ann Clay. 

Another of Pat's interests is quilt-making, a skill passed down through generations of female family members.  Her interests lie in unique, one-of-kind artistic quilts, whose patterns she designs using computer software.  One of her fabric quilts was the inspiration for Marty and Pat's collaboration.  Pat photographed some of Marty's tile designs and altered them on the computer to create new textural designs for their first piece, Tile Quilt.