	Peter HAYES (England) Dates: B.1946 Peter Hayes was born in Birmingham and studied at the Mosely School of Art & Craft, Birmingham, and Birmingham College of Art (1960-67). He worked with his father in the printmaking business briefly, before moving to Cornwall with his girlfriend in the hope of joining an artistic community in St. Ives. However the couple ended up in St. Mawes, 30 miles away and started their family there. In 1972 he was invited to South Africa where he spent 10 years, initially as a Craft Advisor in Lesotho, South Africa, working with the Basotho. Here he came to admire their unique way of burnishing pots using a polished river pebble and firing the pots upside down with dry cow dung under corrugated metal and flattened out oil drums The firing lasts 3-4 hours reaching about 600 degrees. Hayes has developed this technique and adapted a gas-fired kiln where each piece of work is placed very close but without touching, and a long slow flame is allowed to lick around the piece to give a very dark, red burnished appearance. He has also worked as Advisor for the Development of Ceramics in 1984 for the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation for Nepal, India, Japan, South Korea and as Craft Advisor South West Arts in 1985 – 1987. In 2009 he was a demonstrator at the International Ceramics Festival in Aberystwyth. The piece purchased for the collection was inspired by his 2009 travels in Australia. He lives and works in Bath.

Peter HAYES (England)

Dates: B.1946

Peter Hayes was born in Birmingham and studied at the Mosely School of Art & Craft, Birmingham, and Birmingham College of Art (1960-67). He worked with his father in the printmaking business briefly, before moving to Cornwall with his girlfriend in the hope of joining an artistic community in St. Ives. However the couple ended up in St. Mawes, 30 miles away and started their family there. In 1972 he was invited to South Africa where he spent 10 years, initially as a Craft Advisor in Lesotho, South Africa, working with the Basotho.

Here he came to admire their unique way of burnishing pots using a polished river pebble and firing the pots upside down with dry cow dung under corrugated metal and flattened out oil drums The firing lasts 3-4 hours reaching about 600 degrees. Hayes has developed this technique and adapted a gas-fired kiln where each piece of work is placed very close but without touching, and a long slow flame is allowed to lick around the piece to give a very dark, red burnished appearance. He has also worked as Advisor for the Development of Ceramics in 1984 for the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation for Nepal, India, Japan, South Korea and as Craft Advisor South West Arts in 1985 – 1987. In 2009 he was a demonstrator at the International Ceramics Festival in Aberystwyth. The piece purchased for the collection was inspired by his 2009 travels in Australia. He lives and works in Bath.