This pottery style was invented by Marie Devlin in the late 1960’s and was in such high demand in Colorado gift shops that her sons John and Fred, his wife, Linda, and her daughter, Kathy, were taught how to produce the pottery and were engaged full time for many years with client shops from the Midwest to Texas and California. Marie passed away in the early ‘80s. Fred passed away a few years ago. Linda stopped making pottery in the late ‘70s. Kathy has done very little pottery the past dozen years.