Stephen Parry describes himself as a traditional wood-firing country potter, but over the years has struggled with the type of potter people perceive him to be. 'This kind of making,' he explains, 'inspires a set of established and self-defined expectations among potters and collectors, whose focus is usually on ideas of authenticity.' They visualise him in sandals, baking heavy, over-virtuous loaves of bread, digging up clay, grinding all his own materials and firing from raw. But this is not Stephen Parry.
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