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Potted By Jess Transfers brand Story
Jess has been working with commercial underglaze transfers in her own pottery since 2014, spending years experimenting with different transfers, techniques, and applications to understand what works best on clay. In 2023, after experiencing the loss of a loved one, she began drawing the Ghosties as a way to imagine a fun and silly afterlife; a small way to turn something difficult into something joyful. What started as a handful of playful drawings quickly grew into a passion for illustration and a desire to learn how to bring her artwork onto pottery. As her artwork evolved, so did her interest in creating underglaze transfers, eventually leading her to explore designs beyond the Ghosties and develop transfers featuring her own artwork. In 2025, she began producing her designs for other potters to use.
Potted By Jess Transfers’ main focus is on creating single, and multicolor underglaze transfers, primarily featuring Jess’ original artwork, for other potters to use. Her passion is rooted in sharing her artwork with the pottery community, giving other makers the opportunity to incorporate her designs into their own creative work and bring them to life on their pottery. She is excited to see how other potters make these designs their own and believes that sharing ideas, creativity, and inspiration is one of the best ways we can grow as artists.
About Jess, the creator behind the PBJ Brand
Jess from Potted by Jess has been practicing pottery since 2013. After graduating with her BFA from Brigham Young University-Idaho in 2017 she moved to the Bay area California to teach pottery and work on building her business. In 2019 her husband and her left the bay
area and moved to Columbus Ohio where they currently reside with their daughter, and three dogs. Today Jess works full time as a potter, along side her employees, and sells her work online, at markets, and in various shops and galleries around the count
ry. When she can, Jess also still teaches workshops and private classes.
When talking about her body of work, Jessica said, “My artwork explores the consistent and intimate functional role ceramics plays in our daily lives. Ceramics as a medium is one of the only arts that has a daily interactive utilitarian function, and I am fascinated by the idea of having such an ordinary object be so functional, but also so bea
utiful. I aim to explore the idea of elevating and beautifying such ordinary objects, while keeping them extremely functional.
My fascination for this medium began after I had experienced traumatic assaults at my religious institution, and how my community of faith attempted to cover up my attacks, protect my attacker, and silence me. I turned to my creativity, and eventually pottery to try and make sense of what I had experienced, and navigate a loss of self, faith, and community. I found tremendous comfort and connection in a medium that is so constant, consistent, and everlasting in the human experience. As I healed I developed a deep connection to nature and began to express the beauty I was recognizing outdoors, in my work. My relationship with my work begins with how the object functions, after which I focus on how to elevate it and express the joy and connection I feel when I am in nature. I am drawn to bright colors and intricate surface designs that stems from my love of flowers, and I express that fascination in my work. My hope is that in experiencing my work, and using it, you will feel the same joy I felt when making it.”
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