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David Andrew Leach (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 with ...
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 ]
Bernard's son David Leach who trained at the North Staffordshire Technical College, became manager in 1937 abandoning production of earthenware, developing a new stoneware body and taking on local apprentices. [4] Michael Cardew was an early student and William Marshall an apprentice. [5]
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]
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.
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.
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.
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 ...