The father figure of British studio pottery. Trained in Japan, he founded the Leach Pottery at St Ives with Shoji Hamada in 1920 and spent a career carrying East Asian pottery ethics and technique to the West; his A Potter's Book of 1940 became the manual and manifesto of the studio potter. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Defining ContributionFounded the Leach Pottery (1920) and wrote A Potter's Book (1940), the founding text of studio pottery 1 Connections
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Bernard Howell Leach (5 January 1887 – 6 May 1979) was a British studio potter and art teacher.
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