Svend bayer biography definition

          Svend Bayer must be one of the most influential potters in England..

          Born in Uganda in 1946 to Danish parents, Svend Bayer spent his childhood in Tanganyika.

          As a ceramic artist, I continue to explore aesthetic, allowing the clay to speak through me, while honoring the foundational principles instilled during my.

        1. Both of these firings were spectacular successes and then my partner Svend Bayer returned to England.
        2. Svend Bayer must be one of the most influential potters in England.
        3. Svend Bayer, who studied with Michael Cardew and is part of a lineage carrying on his spirit, creates unaffected, vigorous ceramics, firing.
        4. An interpretive mixed-method approach uncovers meanings in making operations from observation, video analysis and conversations with potters.

          5. At 10 Bayer went to boarding school then aged 15, he and his three siblings returned with their parents to Denmark. After his parents separation Bayer was sent to boarding school in England. His interrupted schooling (Bayer went to six different schools in four different countries between 1956-62) made it necessary for him to reduce the number of subjects he studied.

          The choices he made led to him study Geography & Economics (neither of which particularly interested him) at Exeter University from 1965-68.

          It was during his time at university that Bayer discovered pottery, and a gift from his girlfriend of Bernard Leach’s A Potters Book introduced him to the pots of Michael Cardew.

          Over their summer break he and his girlfriend hitchhiked to Cardew’s pottery, Wenford Bridge in North Cornwall. The place was empty for the summer but Bayer recalls it being an incredibly romantic place, smelling