Garry Bish (1950- ) trained as a secondary school art teacher in Melbourne in 1968-69, then moved to Bendigo, where he established the Potters Arms Studio in Epsom in 1972 while studying for a Diploma of Art and Design in ceramics at the Bendigo Institute of Technology, completed in 1974. He still lives and works in Epsom, teaching ceramics part-time at tertiary level and making distinctive forms using techniques such as salt-glazing, glaze trailing, slip-casting, neriage, hand-building and press-moulding.He has entries in the 1981, 1986, 1990 and 1996 potters' directories, and his work is reviewed in a range of art and craft journals. Bish marks his work with his signature or an impressed 'B' with a stem like a feather.