About Svend Bayer
Born 1946. Svend Bayer is a Danish potter and ceramicist.
Vase made by Svend Bayer in 1997. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Svend Bayer (born 2 January 1946) in Uganda is a Danish-British studio potter described by Michael Cardew as "easily my best pupil."
Born in Uganda to Danish parents, Bayer grew up in Tanganyika and discovered pottery whilst studying geography and economics at the University of Exeter
After travelling in the Far East, Asia and the United States, he set up his own workshop in Sheepwash Beaworthy, Devon in 1975. He uses local North Devon ball clays and fires his kiln with wood. He is known for boldly decorated domestic ware and very large garden pots.
Bayer has exhibited widely in Europe, the Middle East, North America, Australia and New Zealand.
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British artist (born 1946)
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