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Bernard Leach

Citation Formats

General Reference

Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas. "Bernard Leach." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://home.interactiveatlas.org/figures/bernard-leach.

APA Style

Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas. (n.d.). Bernard Leach. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://home.interactiveatlas.org/figures/bernard-leach

BibTeX

@misc{home,craftsandhobbiesatlas-bernard-leach,
  author = {Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas},
  title = {Bernard Leach},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://home.interactiveatlas.org/figures/bernard-leach},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

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.

Facts

Birth Year

1887 1

Death Year

1979 1

Nationality

British 1

Defining Contribution

Founded the Leach Pottery (1920) and wrote A Potter's Book (1940), the founding text of studio pottery 1

Cross-Tradition Connections