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On the recommendation of a family friend, Edgar Skinner, she contacted Leach to suggest that he become the potter within this group. Leach and his wife Muriel were accompanied by the young Hamada Shoji and, having identified a suitable site next to the Stennack river on the outskirts of St Ives , the two established the Leach Pottery in 1920.
Janet Darnell Leach (15 March 1918 – 12 September 1997), was an American studio potter working in later life at the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall in England. After studying pottery at Black Mountain, North Carolina under Shoji Hamada , a visiting artisan, she traveled to Japan to work with him.
Cardew was the first apprentice at the Leach Pottery, St Ives, Cornwall, in 1923. [3] He shared an interest in slipware with Bernard Leach and was influenced by the pottery of Shoji Hamada. In 1926 he left St Ives to restart the Greet Potteries at Winchcombe in Gloucestershire. With the help of former chief thrower Elijah Comfort and fourteen ...
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 ...
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]
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
Rie was a friend of Bernard Leach, one of the leading figures in British studio pottery in the mid-20th century, and she was impressed by his views, especially concerning the "completeness" of a pot. [15] But despite his transient influence, her brightly coloured, delicate, modernist pottery stands apart from Leach's subdued, rustic, oriental work.