IAN BAYERS
Has made and exhibited low fire work internationally for over twenty years. He is the author of a book on raku which is now in its fourth edition and has taught and lectured in art colleges in England and Sweden. His work exploits the speed and drama of raku and its possibilities for a wide variety of surface effects, using clay, slip, gaze and smoke effects. He trained at the Central School of Art, London, from 1966-69 and set up his first studio in 1973 making stoneware and porcelain. in the early 1980's he began to low fire work in a raku kiln. He says "In a raku kiln there is always expectation, tension, action, control, and some of the unexpected. A firing gives you something new, by it's nature it is inexact and variable. That to me is ceramic's graeat challenge and attraction."