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October 14, 2009

Potter Terry Gess uses slip to decorate his pottery surfaces when they are in the bisqueware state. He likes the freedom that comes with knowing he can experiment and if he doesn't like the results he can just wash it off and start over. But there are technical challenges to this method. He explains those today and shares three of his slip recipes.

October 7, 2009

Over the past thirty years, Terry Gess has developed a personal logic that allows him to engage fully with the world around him. The short version of the story is this: Whole life, whole potter. The long version has to do with learning how to see, touch, and hear the nuances of daily life, then intuit a light-handed, rich response through clay.