Bernard leach pottery
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History of the Leach Pottery
Bernard Howell Leach was in born Hong Kong on January 5th 1887. As his mother died in child birth he was taken to Kyoto in Japan by his maternal grandparents. Four years later his father remarried and he brought Leach back to Hong Kong and then on to Singapore when he was appointed a judge.
In 1897 when Leach was 10 he was brought back to England by his Great Uncle Granville to attend Beaumont College – a Jesuit school – in Old Windsor. Leach left school at 16 having excelled only in drawing, elocution and cricket and enrolled at The Slade School of Art, London. In 1904 his father was diagnosed with liver cancer so Leach left The Slade to be with his father in Bournemouth. As his father was extremely ill Leach promised to seek a career in the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank (HSBC). In November of that year, his father died.
When Leach was 18 he moved to Manchester to study for the bank entrance examination and stayed with his Uncle and Aunt. It was here that he met his cousin Muriel and fell in love with her. In 1906 he took up position as a junior bank
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Bernard Leach
Bernard Leach (January 5, 1887 - May 6, 1979) was a British Bahá’í. In his professional career he was a world-famous potter, particularly famous for studying pottery-making in Japan and producing pots in a fusion of Eastern and Western styles. Before the Second World War, he worked at Dartington Hall, in Devon, England, alongside painters Reginald Turvey and Mark Tobey. In his latter years, he worked at a studio in St. Ives, Cornwall, England.
Biography
Leach was born in Hong Kong in 1887 where his father worked as a judge. His mother passed at the time he was born and he was raised by his grandparents in Japan.[1] In 1897 he moved to England where he completed his education and after graduating he worked as a clerk for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation briefly before enrolling to study at the London School of Art.[2]
In 1909 Leach returned to Japan where he began working as an art teacher,[2] and in 1914 he was introduced to the Bahá’í Faith in Japan by pioneer Agnes Alexander.[3] He spent time liv
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Bernard Leach
British studio potter (1887–1979)
Bernard Howell LeachCH 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]
Biography
Early years (Japan)
Leach was born in Hong Kong.[3] His mother Eleanor (née Sharp) died in childbirth. He spent his first three years in Japan with his father, Andrew Leach, until he moved back to Hong Kong in 1890.
Leach attended the Slade School of Fine Art and the London School of Art, where he studied etching under Frank Brangwyn.[4] Reading books by Lafcadio Hearn, he became interested in Japan. In 1909 he returned to Japan with his young wife Muriel (née Hoyle) intending to teach etching. Satomi Ton, Kojima Kikuo, and later Ryūsei Kishida were his pupils.
In Tokyo, he gave talks and attended meetings along with Mushanokōji Saneatsu, Shiga Naoya, Yanagi Sōetsu and others from the "Shirakaba-Group",[Sub 1] who were trying to introduce western art to Japan after 250 year
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