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Svend Bayer (born 2 January 1946 in
Svend Bayer (born 2 January 1946 in Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa
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to Danish parents) is a Danish
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-British
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studio potter
Studio pottery is pottery made by professional and amateur artists or artisans working alone or in small groups, making unique items or short runs. Typically, all stages of manufacture are carried out by the artists themselves.Emmanuel Cooper, ...
described by Michael Cardew
Michael Ambrose Cardew (1901–1983), was an English studio potter who worked in West Africa for twenty years.
Early life
Cardew was born in Wimbledon, London, the fourth child of Arthur Cardew, a civil servant, and Alexandra Kitchin, the elde ...
as "easily my best pupil."
Bayer grew up in Tanganyika
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and discovered pottery whilst studying geography and economics at the University of Exeter
The University of Exeter is a public university , public research university in Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of Min ...
from 1965 to 1968. He began work as an apprentice at Wenford Bridge Pottery
Michael Ambrose Cardew (1901–1983), was an English studio potter who worked in West Africa for twenty years.
Early life
Cardew was born in Wimbledon, London, the fourth child of Arthur Cardew, a civil servant, and Alexandra Kitchin, the eld ...
with Michael Cardew in 1969.
In 1972 he joined the Brannam Pottery
Brannam Pottery was a British pottery started by Thomas Backway Brannam in Barnstaple, Devon, England, in 1848. It later became part of the "rustic" wing of the art pottery movement.
History
Thomas Brannam took over the lease of an existing p ...
in Barnstaple
Barnstaple ( or ) is a river-port town in North Devon, England, at the River Taw's lowest crossing point before the Bristol Channel. From the 14th century, it was licensed to export wool and won great wealth. Later it imported Irish wool, bu ...
, where he worked as a thrower for a year. He has been described as probably the best of the potters to work at Wenford Bridge, and his large pots have been said to be "very powerful".
After travelling in the Far East, Asia and the United States, he set up his own workshop in Sheepwash Beaworthy, Devon
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in 1975.
He uses local North Devon ball clay
Ball clays are kaolinitic sedimentary clays that commonly consist of 20–80% kaolinite, 10–25% mica, 6–65% quartz. Localized seams in the same deposit have variations in composition, including the quantity of the major minerals, accessory ...
s and fires his kiln
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with wood. He is known for boldly decorated domestic ware and very large garden pots.Watson Oliver, ''Studio Pottery'' Phaidon 1993, p.152
Bayer has exhibited widely in Europe, the Middle East, North America, Australia and New Zealand.www.studio-pots.comReferences