Born - 31st December 1943
Place - Warrington, Cheshire. U.K.
Education - Monastic (Benedictine) Hereford. U.K.
Trained - Central School of Art & Design, London
Qualification - Bachelor of Arts Degree
Level - First Class Honours
Subject - Three Dimensional Design
Specialism - Ceramics
Status - 1971 Married to Patt Clarke
- Two sons - John B and Joey
- Self-employed designer maker
- Lecturer
- B/tec Edexcel National Validator / Standards Moderator
- Member B/tec Board for Design 1986, 1987
Workshops - Hampstead Pottery London
- Daffodil Farm Pottery, Peak District. U.K.
- White House Pottery, East Anglia. U.K.
- Poterie d'Alan Baxter - 66230 Prats-de-Mollo. France.
Associations - East Anglian Potters - The founder member
- Suffolk Crafts Society

National and International Collections
- Castle Museum, Norwich, UK
- Museum fur Moderne Keramik, Deidesheim, Germany
- Ludzics Schloss, Germany
- Keramion, Germany
- Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany
- Valencia Museo, Spain

Exhibitions
- 1969 Whitechapel Gallery, London
- 1969 Crafts Centre of Great Britain
- 1975 Studio 10&half, Hull
- 1976 Rodney Kent's, Hull
- 1977 Dortmund, Germany
- 1977 Gallery Oben, Germany
- 1977 Handwerkspflege, Munich, Germany
- 1978 Sommer Gallery, Nuremberg, Germany
- 1978 Weihnachtsaustellung, Munich, Germany
- 1978 Weihnachtsaustellung, Nuremberg, Germany
- 1979 Englishe Keramik, Kolner Keramik Galerie, Germany
- 1980 Galerie Heidrich, Leichlingen, Germany
- 1981 Galerie Marin, Hagen, Germany
- 1981 Galerie Poech, Traunstein, Germany
- 1982 Galerie Charlotte Hennig, Darmstadt, Germany
- 1982 Museum fur Moderne Keramik, Deidesheim, Germany
- 1983 Museum fur Moderne Keramik, Deidesheim, Germany
- 1984 East Anglian Potters, lady Lodge, Peterborough, U.K.
- 1985 Museum fur Moderne Keramik, Deidesheim, Germany
- 1986 E.A.P.A. Lion Yard, Cambridge, U.K.
- 1987 Aspektezeitgenossischer Keramik aus Europe
- 1988 East Anglia Arts Abroad, Gent, Belgium
- 1989 Lowestoft College Gallery, E.A.P.A. U.K.
- 1989 Fermoy Gallery, Kings Lynn, U.K.
- 1989 'Clay Today' Ipswich Museum Gallery, U.K.
- 1990 Primavera, Cambridge, U.K.
- 1991 Suffolk Crafts Society, Aldborough, U.K.
- 1992 Castle Museum, Norwich, U.K.
- 1993 Corpusty Gallery, Norfolk, U.K.
- 1994 Suffolk Artists 'Mixed Media', U.K.
- 1995 Ipswich Town Library, U.K.
- 1999 E.A.P.A. Cambridge, U.K.
- 2000 Vernissage, The White House Pottery, Ipswich, U.K.
- 2001 Haddenham Gallery, Ely, U.K.
- 2001 Withingdale Gallery, Long Melford, Suffolk, U.K.
- 2002 Withingdale Gallery, Long Melford, Suffolk, U.K.
- 2006 Vernissage, Poterie d'Alan Baxter, Prats-de-Mollo, France
- 2008 Deutsche und Internationale Keramik seit 1946, Grassi Museum, Leipzig.
- 2012 Vernissage, Métier d'Art Saint Roch, Ceret, France
- 2019 Vernissage, Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany