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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]
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 ...
Bernard Leach is credited with restarting craftsman pottery in Britain in 1920. One of his early students was Michael Cardew who, at 25, was looking for a suitable site for his own pottery and in 1926 rented the old pottery buildings. [ 3 ]
Norstad credits artists Peter Voulkos, Bernard Leach, Shoji Hamada and his parents as influences, as well as clean, functional Scandinavian design of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. The stoneware clay that Norstad Pottery mixed was a combination of Kentucky ball clay, California fire clay, and grog- a sand like material. When fired the pieces ...
Its leading proponents were Bernard Leach and a more controversial group of post-war British studio potters. [1] They were theoretically opposed to the expressive pots or fine art pots of potters such as William Staite Murray, Lucie Rie and Hans Coper. [1] The ethical pot theory and style was popularized by Bernard Leach in A Potter's Book ...
Batterham worked in the tradition of Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada, for whom the term ethical pot was later coined and whose approach was in turn rooted in the Japanese Mingei movement. The ideal of this movement was the anonymous craftsman who quickly and dynamically produces ceramics for everyday use and in this way creates art without ...
Byron Temple (1933–2002) was an American potter. [1]Temple learned to throw on the wheel at Ball State University as an undergrad in his native Indiana. [2] After college and serving in the U.S. Army, Temple discovered A Potter's Book, written by the English potter, Bernard Leach, considered by mny to be the grandfather of modern hand thrown functional studio pottery.
He was the author of many books on ceramics, including his definitive biography of Bernard Leach that was published in 2003 (Yale University Press), [1] and was also the editor of The Ceramics Book, published in 2006. [4]