Svend Bayer makes his wood-fired stoneware pots in rural seclusion at Sheepwash in Devon. Of Danish extraction, Bayer worked with Michael Cardew who described him as 'easily my best pupil'. He likes to work on a large scale and even his domestic pots have a quality of grandeur, influenced by his admiration for traditional pottery of the Far East. All Bayer's jugs, jars and cooking pots are glazed inside.