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Bernard Howell Leach CH CBE (5 January 1887 – 6 May 1979) was a British studio potter and art teacher. [1] He is regarded as the "Father of British studio pottery". [2]
David Andrew Leach OBE (7 May 1911 – 15 February 2005) was an English studio potter and the elder son of Bernard Leach and Muriel Hoyle Leach, Bernard's first wife. David Leach was born in Tokyo, Japan, where his father met Shoji Hamada, and came to England in 1920 for education at Dauntsey's School, Wiltshire. [1] He began an apprenticeship ...
Bowen was married to Alison Leach, daughter of Michael Leach and granddaughter of Bernard Leach. Alison died and Clive married Rosie Bowen. His children, Dylan Bowen and Helena Bowen, are also potters. [4]
In 1924, Pleydell-Bouverie was taken on by Bernard Leach at his pottery in St. Ives. She remained at the Leach Pottery for a year and learnt alongside Michael Cardew, Shoji Hamada and Tsuronosuke Matsubayashi (known as Matsu). She did the necessary odd jobs at the pottery whilst observing technical lectures from Matsu and was soon given the ...
Archie Leach (1904–1986), real name of English-American actor Cary Grant; Ben Leach (born 1969), player in English pop group The Farm; Bernard Leach (1887–1979), British studio potter and art teacher; Bobby Leach (1858–1926), English circus performer, went over Niagara Falls in a barrel; Buddy Leach (1934-2022), American politician
John Leach was a studio potter, the eldest son of David Leach and the eldest grandson of Bernard Leach.Born in St Ives in 1939, he studied under his grandfather and father at St Ives and under Ray Finch at Winchcombe. [1]
It has taught children, from two years of age, since it was founded [4] [5] to provide a safe after-school and recreation program. [6] Notable ceramic artists who have taught at Greenwich House include Stanley Rosen (1956–59), Bernard Leach, Shōji Hamada, Peter Voulkos, Elise Siegel and Robert Turner.
After a period of teaching art at a small private boys' school at Caterham in Surrey near London, he visited Bernard Leach after reading Leach's A Potter's Book. On Leach's advice Maltby joined his son David Leach in 1962 at Lowerdown Pottery in Bovey Tracey, Devon where he was Leach's apprentice for