Gordon Baldwin, born in1932 in Lincoln, England, is one of the world's most distinguished ceramic artists. He studied at the Lincoln School of Artand the Central School of Art and Design and was teacher of Ceramics and Sculpture at Eton College  Baldwin was awarded an OBE in 1992 and an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London in 2000. His work has been exhibited worldwide and is represented in many public collections. 

His early work featured functional stoneware vessels and tin-glazed earthenware, and often reflected his fascination with landscape. As he developed as an artist, his work became influenced by contemporary sculpture. In the 1950’s, he employed a variety of techniques and began hand-building, using both earthenware and stoneware, often reworking and re-firing pieces several times. He is recognised for the rich variety of forms he builds which combine sculptural form with abstract painterly marks. Baldwin has been very influential in moving ceramics towards sculpted structures and away from traditional functional pots.

Gordon Baldwin has described his approach as‘a non search for beauty,’finding most satisfaction in ‘forms which have a certain awkward resonance,’a more challenging purity and strength. Over the decades his practice has combined a free and unbridled development of three dimensional forms with an exploration of abstract painting and mark-making. Most of his works could be described as four-dimensional: the sculptures develop in space while at the same time alluding to an interior dimension, the contained space inside each form.