MARCELLA SMITH is a master in the illusion of movement on such a hard stationary type of art medium.  See her in the ART Magazine in Kansas City, SOUTHWEST ART Magazine, and the ESSENTIAL GUIDE magazine in the New Mexico.  Rising up fast as an artist to watch! The selling prices of her original work have gone up 200% in just a year! Marcella's works can be seen in fine art galleries in Taos, New Mexico, Golden, Virginia, Hot Springs, and Kansas City. She is continuing to expand to more and more galleries with her very unique pottery

THE FLOWING SPIRIT of MARCELLA SMITH

"Since the beginning of my artist’s career, I have been fascinated by drips. They bring to my pieces a since of ‘movement’ and ‘flow’, helping to take away the otherwise cold feeling that comes from the hardness and solid permanence of this medium. Almost all of my collections have a gold or yellow center, except for my ZEBRA WARE (marbled clay pottery that I use to demonstrate how when different color clays, or people, work together they can make a beautiful piece of art!). This energetic yellow center represents to me the color of our souls as we flow and move thru our lives and after.

Being a strong Christian, most of my pieces have some sort of spiritual meaning, not always visible to the average viewer, but are there none the less. My latest addition of semi-precious stones, besides bringing the beautiful colors and variety of media, also represents ‘wisdom’ or ‘adventure’ to me, for their age is much much older then you or I, or the pottery it is attached to.

In the ‘GOLD RAIN’ collection, a wonderfully interesting 'Southwestern' feel comes from this dripping Gold glaze representing the gold love of God 'raining' down from heaven. This exciting collection of fine art pottery filled with Activity and Movement with added colorful glazes. They are high fired pottery using my secret recipe terra sig slip. These glazes, as they reach temperatures close to 2000 degrees in the kiln, ‘fume’ into the caramel colored terra sig causing a ‘shadowing’ or almost 3D affect to the drips.

All of the recently produced pieces from the GOLD RAIN Collection, now have an a protective expensive lacquer, used on outdoor bronze statues / sculptures, that adheres to the copper molecules in the glaze.  Marcella's unique signature, as always, is on the bottom of the pot adding to it's future value.

I will continue to work on and develop more variations to all of my collections, and of course will always me searching in my mind for a new creation or collection of works for the future."