Matthew Patton creates high fire stoneware plates, bowls, tiles and platters.  His work combine abstract forms, vivid color and unique glazes into distinctive works of art.  His glass glazes bead up like paint from a tube, or raindrops on a leaf.  Other glazes fill recesses in the surface with translucent crackle glass.  Matthew creates his designs with the skill of a graphic designer and the freedom of an abstract expressionist.  Colors splash, drip, pool and run across the surface and combine into striking compositions.  Although he creates multiple works with the same design, each piece is unique.  The final result is dependent on the subtle differences in the application of glazes and unpredictable effects from firing.  

I bought, sold, and collected Matthew's plates for many years.  I would go to his home studio and hand pick every plate.  I would often have to beg to purchase these unusual pieces, which I kept for my personal collection.  This is the only vase of this style that I saw in the many years I bought from him. I suspect it was for a juried show.  There are many many fewer of this design than the round plate designs.  I take pride in being able to select the very best of the best of what he produced.  Many pieces I kept for myself and that is what I'm listing now.   

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You can see more Patton items in my eBay store.