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by them together (although it was rebuilt by Tsuronosuke Matsubayashi in 1922), and this kiln was in regular use up until the 1970s. A further international presence at the Leach Pottery took the
form of Texan Janet Darnell Leach (1918-1997), born in Grand Saline, she was Leach’s third wife. Tey met at the illustrious Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where Leach, Hamada and Yanagi were present as part of the 1952 US tour, the same tour which included Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they met with famed Navajo potter, Maria Martinez (1887-1980). Janet Leach created her own distinctive work at the Pottery for
nearly 40 years. After her death, the Pottery continued, though on a different scale, until extensive renovations were begun in the early 21st century. Expansion to the site included more kilns, a new studio workshop, an exhibition space and the Pottery Cottage Showroom where a large selection of pots made on-site are sold. Potters come from all over the world to live and work in the Leach tradition, such as the aforementioned Carson Culp. It’s often possible to see these international potters at work, progress- ing further the East-West philosophical concepts on which the Pottery was founded. Check the website for more information at
www.leachpottery.com. Follow them on Facebook at Te Leach Pottery and Twitter @leachpottery.
Frthr reading on Bernard Leac and th Leac Potery at St Ives:
Tony Birks and Cornelia Wingfield Digby. Bernard Leach, Hamada & their Circle. Oxford: Phaidon-Christie’s, 1990.
Emmanuel Cooper. Bernard Leach: Life & Work. New Haven and London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Yale University Press, 2003.
Bernard Leach. Beyond East and West: Memoirs, Portraits and Essays. London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1978.
Bernard Leach. A Potter’s Book. London: Faber and Faber, 1940.
Edmund de Waal. Bernard Leach; St Ives Artists Series. London: Tate Gallery Publishing, 1998.
Edmund de Waal. Bernard Leach; British Artists Series. London: Tate Gallery Publishing, 2014.
Dr Susan House Wade is a design historian, specialising in the exchange of visual cultures of the East and West in the early-mid 20th century. Contact her at
housewadephd@gmail.com
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