
The Purple Pottery of Jianshui, China
by Mark MessengerI was recently one of eight participants at an international ceramic conference in Jianshui, a small city in south-western China. Jianshui is situated in a predominantly rural area known as the Purple…

Mission Impossible: Intonation – International Clay Symposium
The Deidesheim Symposium is unusual; uncommonly private, personal, international, small and familiar. Terms which seem to be contradictory but successfully give a description of what it is. Every year…