Unique and Original Artwork

Gordon Motta is a master potter who has been producing unique and distinctive art pottery since 1968.  He traveled the California art fair circuit for six years developing his personal style of usable art before returning to his native Big Island.  He settled on family land in Ahualoa where he has fired his kiln regularly since 1974.  His studio adjoins his home at 2300’ on the northern windward slopes of nearly 14,000’ tall

Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii in the rural community of Ahualoa.  It is the “long hill” between Honoka’a and Kamuela (headquarters of the famous Parker Ranch) and is sparsely populated with 5 acre to 100 and more acre homesteads of kama’aina ranching families, farmers, craftspeople and now many newcomers.

His work has been given as gifts to the King and Queen of Denmark and the Emperor and Empress of Japan. He is represented in the collection of the State of Hawaii’s Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the Richard Smart collection at Parker Ranch’s Pu’u Opelu Museum as well as the private collections of many hundreds of neighbors, friends and appreciators of fine art here and all over the world.

Each piece is a unique, original work of art.  There may be similarities but no duplicates.  There are no “sets” yet all pieces compliment each other and belong to a body of work now spanning more than four decades.

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