BIOGRAPHY

Marina Ortona was born in Tripoli in 1961 and moved to Rome in 1967.

She is a jazz pianist who meets the world of visual arts by attending the School of Ornamental Arts in via di San Giacomo, in Rome.

Between colored clay and plasters, a new way of seeing grows in her.

She opened her sculpture lab in 2013, meanwhile participating in several workshops with Elettra Cipriani, Annalisa Guerri and Pirjo Eronen.

In 2017, on Women's Day, she presented her first work "La Ciociara", in the Studio 33 of the photographer Elena Somarè. In the same year she took part in a wonderful wood-firing class in the middle of the Tolfa woods, along with other 18 international renowned potters (from Norway, Finland, Italy, England, and Brazil), under the guidance of Robert Cross and Pirjo Eronen, exhibiting her freshly fired works at her first collective exhibition, "Clay and fire", at the Civic Museum of Tolfa.

From here she is continuing her journey by working on the study of shape, forging vases and bowls embellished with glazes of her own creation, and then, subsequently, focusing her research on the study of the movement of the human body.

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