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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 ]
After his military service, he completed an apprenticeship with Bernard Leach in St Ives from 1957. It was there that he met his future wife Dinah Dunn. [ 1 ] He also became friends with Atsuja Hamada, son of Shoji Hamada , from whom he took over the foot-operated Asian potter's wheel with which he worked from then on.
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 ...
Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal, CBE (born 10 September 1964) is an English contemporary artist, potter and author. He is known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels often created in response to collections and archives or the history of a particular place. [1]
The Leach Pottery was founded in 1920 by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada in St Ives, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. [ 1 ] The buildings grew from an old cow / tin-ore shed in the 19th century to a pottery in the 1920s with the addition of a two-storey cottage added on to the lower end of the pottery, followed by a completely separate cottage ...
MacKenzie and his first wife, Alix, studied with Bernard Leach from 1949 to 1952. His simple, wheel-thrown functional pottery is heavily influenced by the aesthetic of Shoji Hamada and Korean ceramics. He is credited with bringing the Japanese Mingei style of pottery to Minnesota, fondly referred to as the "Mingei-sota style." [1]
Dr. Bombay (Bernard Fox) is a witch doctor and womanizer, almost always accompanied by a buxom assistant in a nurse's outfit. He constantly cracks stale jokes. He constantly cracks stale jokes. A strange occurrence or condition caused by a supernatural illness is occasionally used as a plot device, and his assistance is often sought.
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