The success of any project involves research, whether as an individual or as a group. As stated before, we have been split into working groups of six. Weekly meetings with my group have helped bring together this project. Ideas have been discussed and shared, which have helped me to consolidate my own intentions for this project. It is through research and experimentation that I am able to broaden my ideas, aims and to visualise my objectives in this project. I have researched the ceramic artist Gordan Baldwin OBE. A designer who has worked with both earthenware and stoneware. He is now in his 80’s, but during his career he has worked as a teacher at Eton College and produced many unique art forms and is known as one of the worlds most renowned ceramic designers. His sculptural forms are works of art. His work includes ‘vessel forms’, hollow or concave items, unique designs, a world away from the regular bowls, vases and typical practical pots. More than a hundred of his items were