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Leach Pottery, St Ives - from 1920 to 2005


	Leach Potters/Marks	Background	Dating Leach

Leach Potters and Marks

Around 120 Bernard Leach pupils, employees and guest potters have been identified so far and are listed below in alphabetic order of surname. Some stayed only for a few days or weeks and others worked part-time or for a few weeks a year for several years. Only a small number of Leach potters had a personal mark or seal. Some of the people in the list were not potters but helped out in various other ways.

This list has been compiled from several sources which are shown at the end. In some cases the dates given by different sources conflict. These are marked with an asterisk in the Source column.

Note that this is a new area of the web site and more material is being added on a regular basis. Help with images of marks and pots and with background information concerning potters would be much appreciated, especially from potters themselves.

The Leach Pottery is currently closed for resoration until 2007. Trevor Corser is now working at the Gaolyard Studios in St Ives with John Bedding for the time being. Futher details.

Marion Whybrow has published a new book (Nov 1996) about the pottery - LEACH POTTERY ST IVES - THE LEGACY OF BERNARD LEACH. This is available from Harbour Bookshop, 2 Tregenna Place, St Ives, Cornwall TR27 ITA 01736 799215. It contains the most up to date research about the potters associated with Bernard Leach and their marks.

Mark	Name	From	To		Source

	Examples of unmarked pots	-	-

	Patricia Ashmore	?	?		W

	Anne Marie Backer-Mohr	1948	1950		W

	Richard Batterham	1957	1958		WL

	Cecil Baugh	1948	1950		WL

	John Bedding	1969 1973	1971 1979		WL

	Muriel Bell	1930	1931		W

	Joe Benny	1940's			B

	John Bew	1938	1942		W*

	Robert Blatherwick	1942	1943		L

	Valerie Bond	1945	1946		W

	Ian Box	1974	1975		WL

	Nora Braden	1924	1927		W

	Amanda Brier	2000	2005		L

	Alan Brough	1968	1972		WL

	Tony Burgess	1965	1967		W

	Michael Cardew	1923	1926		WL

	Michael Cartwright	1973	1975		WL

	Len Castle	1956	1957		WL

	Valentinos Charalambous	1950	1951		WLC

	John Coney	?	?		W

	Laurie Cooks	?	?		B

	Trevor Corser	1966	2005		WL

	Marsha Cox	?	?		W

	Pierre Culot	?	?		W

	Harry Davis	1933	1937		WML

	Eleanor De Silva	1957	1957		W

	Beryl Debney	?	?		W

	Dinah Dunn	1953	1959		W*

	Horatio Dunn	1940's			B

	Chantal Dunoyer	1967	1968		W

	Derek Emms	1954	1962		*WL**

	Charlotte Epton	1927	1930		W

	Gutte Eriksen	1948	1948		W

	Walter George Firth	1948	1953		W

	Robert Fishman	1976	1978		W

	Bernard Forrester	1932	1934		*WL**

	Sylvia Fox-Strangeways	1926	1926		W

	Grattan Freyer	1945	1946		W

	Judy Gardner	1952	1953		W

	Mary Gibson-Horrocks	1944	1947		WL

	Michael Gill	1943	1943		*WL**

	Atsuya Hamada	1957	1957		*WL**

	Shinsaku Hamada	1963	1963		WL

	Shoji Hamada	1920	1923		WL

	Tomoo Hamada	1995	1995	Visiting	L

	Gwyn Hanssen Pigott	1958	1959		W

	Sylvia Hardaker	1966	1968		WL

	Peter Hardy	1971	1973		W

	Anne-Marie Harrison	1948	1948		W

	Nic Harrison	1979	1980		WLC

	Elizabeth Heinz	?	?		W

	Michael Henry	1963	1965		WL

	Patrick Heron	1944	1945	Painter	W

	Shigeyoshi Ichino	1969	1973		*WL**

	Clary Illian	1964	1965		WL

	Richard Jenkins	1958	1961		L

	Jorgen Jorgensen	?	?		W

	Dorothy Kemp	1939	1945		WL

	Dick Kendall	1944	1946		W

	Robert King	1965	1967		W

	Anne Kjaersgaard	1956	1958		W

	William Klock	1975	1976		WL

	Helena Klug	1958	1958		L

	Susan Kraft	?	?		W

	Paul Lajoire	?	?		W

	Jeffrey D Larkin	1976	1978		W