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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 ...
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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 ...
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 aiming to do so. Consequently, Batterham refrained from signing his vessels. He himself saw his work primarily in the tradition of Michael Cardew, the first apprentice of Bernard Leach. [8]
Pleydell-Bouverie described herself as "a simple potter. I like a pot to be a pot, a vessel with a hole in it, made for a purpose". [8] In a letter to Bernard Leach written 29 June 1930, she said "I want my pots to make people think, not of the Chinese, but of things like pebbles and shells and birds' eggs and the stones over which moss grows.
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 nearly two years.
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott was born Gwynion Lawrie John on 1 January 1935 in Ballarat, Australia. [2] She was the second of four daughters. Her father was director of an engineering firm and her mother an eclectic arts and crafts teacher–practitioner who surrounded her children with craft objects she had made.