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	Ceramics Today - Bernard Leach
		Bernard Leach is regarded as one of the great British potters of the 20th century.
		Leach made a plethora of pots, which were largely influenced by his 'Sung Standard' - what he perceived as Korean and Japanese peasant pottery - humble and unassuming, but at the same time of an indisputable beauty.
		Leach not only made pots, but was also responsible for a number of publications, e.g.
	www.ceramicstoday.com /articles/leach.htm (155 words)

	Bernard Leach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bernard Leach was born in Hong Kong, but spent his young adult years in Japan where he came into contact with a group of young, art-interested Japanese, calling themselves Shirakaba (白樺).
		It was in Japan that Leach began potting after befriending the famous potter Shoji Hamada.
		Leach advocated making utilitarian, so-called ethical pots over fine art pots, which promote aesthetic concerns rather than function.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernard_Leach (498 words)

	Interpreting Ceramics
		When Pleydell-Bouverie met Leach at the gallery, whom she described as ‘a long spidery man, giving a curious impression of shagginess in a Norfolk jacket and an extensive moustache’,16 she immediately asked to become a private pupil.
		Leach was even more dismissive, attending ‘rather as a critic posing questions’, always ‘interrupting with philosophical questionings such as whether all this theoretical stuff was really relevant to the quality of what you produced’,30 was how Pleydell-Bouverie recalled it.
		Leach’s attitude to the past was more ambiguous, for while he was fond of quoting William Blake’s aphorism to ride your coach and horses over the bones of the dead, the forms and decoration of the past were a constant presence in his work, though rarely a subject of reproduction.
	www.uwic.ac.uk /ICRC/issue002/leach_cardew.htm (4427 words)

	Bernard Leach - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Bernard Leach (1887-1979) was a British studio potter.
		It was in Japan where Leach began potting after befriending the famous potter Shoji Hamada.
		Leach advocated making utilitarian, ethical pots over fine art pots, which neglected function.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Bernard_Leach (442 words)

	Alexandra_Copeland_Dartington_Pottery - Page: 1 of 3
		The offer of a working area in the Dartington pottery studio founded by Bernard Leach was an opportunitv not to be missed, especially as the studio's development of colour in stoneware glazes for ceramic decoration was far ahead of my own experimentation.
		Leach intended to move there from the isolation of St. Ives, both for the convenience of obtaining materials and the possibility of attracting more visitors to his studio.
		Bernard Leach was living in a cabin at Dartington while writing A Potter's Book.
	www.users.bigpond.com /copeland/alexandra_copeland_Dartington_Pottery001.htm (672 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts news \| Obituary: David Leach
		The potter David Leach, who has died aged 93, was the eldest son of the potter Bernard Leach.
		The Leach pottery was a strongly moralistic endeavour.
		While Bernard remained committed to the making of individual pots carrying the maker's personal mark, it did not diminish his advocacy of a workshop producing utilitarian pottery for everyday use.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/obituary/0,12723,1425966,00.html?gusrc=rss (1398 words)

	Bernard Leach
		In 1927 Bernard was invited to transfer his pottery to Dartington where Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst were establishing a centre for rural arts and crafts, but it was not until 1932 that Leach set up a small pottery there, also teaching part-time at Foxhole School.
		In 1962 Bernard was awarded a CBE in the New Years honours list to mark his fifty years as a potter, in 1968 he received the Freedom of the Borough of St. Ives along with Hepworth and Nicholson for their services to the town and
		Bernard Leach died in 1979 at the age of 92.
	www.leachpottery.com /English/b_leach.htm (675 words)

	Bernard Leach and the Leach Pottery
		Bernard Leach flared tenmoku vase with personal and St. Ives seals.
		Bernard Leach (1897-1979) was one of the founding fathers of the Studio Pottery movement, who originally started the Leach Pottery in St. Ives,
		Standard Ware continued to be made until Bernard's death but the heyday of the range was the 1950's and 1960's when there was around 100 different items available.
	www.studio-pots.com /leach.htm (224 words)

	Ceramics Today - Book Review
		Bernard Leach is regarded as one of the great potters of the 20th century.
		Edmund De Waal's book Bernard Leach (St. Ives Potters) takes a refreshing and critical look at Leach's life and accomplishments, offering a healthy, at times dissenting view to the normal assumptions of exactly what Leach contributed to 20th C pottery.
		It is little known that Leach seldom threw his own pots, but rather had them made for him to decorate.
	www.ceramicstoday.com /articles/082701.htm (329 words)

	Slipware Plate by Bernard Leach, 1950
		Bernard Leach was another of the 20th century's influential potters and writers.
		Leach had learned pottery making techniques under the raku kenzan; Hamada knew the technical components of glaze composition and kiln firing from his work at the institute.
		Leach was a skilled draftsman and his notebooks are filled with sketches of patters he would use.
	www.glendale.edu /ceramics/leachslipwareplate.html (594 words)

	Gary Hatcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Leach was no longer taking apprentices in 1976 when Daphne and I traveled to England and he was almost totally blind.
		Bernard did not want to see his students making his pots." As with any powerful teacher, artist, philosopher or writer (Leach was all four), followers risk being pulled under by a vortex of charismatic presence.
		Bernard Leach, Beyond East and West, Memoirs, Portraits and Essays (London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1978), pg.
	www.pinemills.com /articleleach1.htm (1676 words)

	Household B Leach - Bernard Leach's work at the Leach pottery, St. Ives, Cornwall
		Bernard Leach was born and brought up in the Far East way back in 1887.
		Bernard was so chuffed with the whole experience he got hooked on ceramics and went (to the top of Mount Fuji clad only in a loincloth, no doubt) to study under Kenzan VI, the supreme ceramics sensei.
		Bernard Leach always insisted on working in a fl and white studio so that no one could work out what glazes he was using.
	www.spooky1.com /leach%20pottery/leach8.htm (918 words)

	BBC - Cornwall - Art story
		The Leach Pottery was set up by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada in St Ives in the 1920's.
		Bernard's sons - David and Michael Leach worked with their father until 1955 when they both left to set up their own potteries in Devon.
		"Bernard Leach had an importance as artist as well as as a craftsman, he was a designer almost more than a potter actually.
	www.bbc.co.uk /cornwall/art/2004_stories/leach.shtml (793 words)

	Review of A Potter's Book by Bernard Leach
		Bernard Leach was born in China, educated in England and then returned to the Far East to teach etching techniques.
		Leach’s fame spread over the years, and now he is recognized as having done more than any one else to establish pottery as one of the visual arts in the West.
		Leach relates that around 1915 he visited the Tokyo Museum and was awed by magnificent examples of Sung Dynasty pots displayed there.
	www.tjnelson.com /apottersbook.htm (1058 words)

	St Ives Pottery (Bernard Leach) - Pupils and Employees
		Bernard Leach was born in Hong Kong in 1887 of English parents.
		Bernard Leach learned that simplicity (or the appearance of simplicity) can be more pleasing to the eye than elaborate ornateness.
		After 11 years in China and Japan, Leach returned to England with Shoji Hamada and established the St Ives Pottery in 1920.
	www.cornishceramics.com /pleach-desc.htm (289 words)

	The Leach Pottery St Ives Appeal
		The Pottery, founded by Bernard Leach in the early 1920s, is an extremely important site within the cultural and artistic heritage of St.Ives and Cornwall.
		The aim is to provide a permanent home for an exemplar collection based on the work of Bernard Leach, his Japanese partner Shoji Hamada and other potters associated with the Leach Pottery, to increase public understanding of the ceramic arts and to strengthen international cultural links.
		Bernard Leach is the final segment in the Modernist jigsaw that is St.Ives.
	www.theleachpotterystives.co.uk /LeachAppealPR.htm (545 words)

	Potteries Museum - Ceramics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bernard Leach was born in Hong Kong and educated in England.
		At the age of sixteen he attended the Slade School of Art under the instruction of Henry Tonks before studying etching at the London School of Art with Frank Brangwyn as his tutor.
		In 1909 he moved to Japan where he absorbed oriental traditions of pottery making under the guidance of the sixth generation of Kenzan (eventually Leach would be bestowed the title seventh Kenzan).
	www2002.stoke.gov.uk /museums/pmag/ceramics/collections/bergen/potters/leach1a.htm (76 words)

	Tate St Ives \| Past Exhibitions \| Bernard Leach Come to the Edge
		Now widely acknowledged as part of the modernist movement in the early decades of the twentieth century, Bernard Leach’s ceramics are continually being reassessed as the movement itself is subject to increasing scrutiny.
		This exhibition of some thirty pots and tiles, all made by Leach or under his close supervision and bearing his seal, focuses on major pieces from a career covering nearly seventy years of working with clay.
		In successfully integrating form and decoration on pots that are quiet and contemplative, Leach was part of a pioneering movement for an alternative art form.
	www.tate.org.uk /stives/exhibitions/cometotheedge (276 words)

	Remembering Bernard Leach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When Bernard Leach was born in Hong Kong in 1887 his mother died, and he was taken by his grandparents to live with them in Kyoto where his grandfather was a professor of English at the university.
		Bernard was educated in England, and at the Slade School of Art in London he met his life-long friend, Reginald Turvey whom the Guardian later referred to as `the spiritual father of the
		When Bernard returned to Japan in 1909 with the first etching press ever to reach that country (he planned to make a living teaching etching) he wanted to find out more about Eastern art and life.
	bahai-library.com /?file=scott_bw18_bernard_leach.html (1437 words)

	oakwoodceramics: Catalogue, Bernard Leach
		Bernard Leach (1887-1979) was born in Hong Kong and spent over a third of his life living in the East.
		Leach's pots at their best are truly wonderful, his understanding of form, balance and pattern is without equal.
		Decorated by Bernard Leach with flowers and leaves,, this pattern is often seen on tiles made at the Leach Pottery.
	www.oakwoodceramics.co.uk /CatBernardLeach.htm (373 words)

	Oakwood Gallery Web-site Magazine, Dartington Conferences 1952 and 2003
		The pottery committee included Bernard Leach and the collector George Wingfield Digby and the textiles committee Muriel Rose and Marianne Straub.As well as the showing crafts from 1920-1952, a selection of older work which influenced the work of the exhibitors was also shown.
		Bernard Leach was a visionary rather than a practical craftsman, David is practical and creative.
		Bernard produced etchings whilst in Japan including two of David – one a portrait with David wearing a hat and the other of David resting in the mountains.
	www.oakwoodceramics.co.uk /DartingtonB.htm (4163 words)

	Digging for Clay in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution - Additional Selections from the Exhibition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bernard Leach to Warren Mackenzie, 1961 Sept. 25.
		Leach describes his travels in Japan with potter Shoji Hamada and philosopher Soetsu Yanagi.
		In 1949 the MacKenzies studied with Leach in England at Leach Pottery in St. Ives, Cornwall.
	artarchives.si.edu /exhibits/clay/addselections.htm (358 words)

	National Electronic and Video Archive of the Crafts - NEVAC - video - Elizabeth Turrell and Amal Ghosh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Leach’s teaching at various institutions and his contribution to the growth of interest in ceramics in 1960’s.
		Leach’s religious beliefs and the Oxford Group’s influence on him, (they were a radical Christian group), and his brother, Michael.
		Bernard was referred to as BL or Bernard at St Ives.
	www.media.uwe.ac.uk /nevac/video.htm (6625 words)

	Critical Ceramics: ARTicles: The Unknown Craftsman is Dead
		Leach spoke often about the value of repetition in the life of the potter as well as its value in the production of work.
		According to the rhetoric of Yanagi and Leach, repetition and lack of ego produced the enduring masterpieces of the Sung dynasty.
		It is ironic that while Leach attacked the 'industrial devils' of his generation whose factories alienated workers, he glorified the same practices employed in child sweat shops of the Sung dynasty.
	www.criticalceramics.org /articles/unknown.htm (1909 words)

	Janet Leach
		Janet Leach, who was Bernard Leach's third wife, was born in Texas, USA in 1918.
		The meeting was instrumental in arousing her interest in the work of Japan and resulted in her studying there for two years under the guidance of Hamada.
		In fact as David Leach stated before his father's death "Janet must be the one person who has worked closely with him for a number of years without being visibly influenced.
	www.studio-pots.com /JanetLeach.htm (308 words)

	Dissertations, Essays on "Bernard Leach" Was known for his great work doing pottery.
		Dissertations, Essays on "Bernard Leach" Was known for his great work doing pottery.
		Title: "Bernard Leach" Was known for his great work doing pottery.
		Bernard Leach is, without a doubt, the best known and most prominent of British studio potters.
	www.essayboom.com /essay/Bernard_Leach_Was_known_for_-148517.html (210 words)

	SOAS: The Brunei Gallery: Bernard Leach - Concept & Form
		Bernard Leach is generally acknowledged as the father of studio pottery.
		Born in the east and educated in the west, Leach saw himself as a conduit between the two cultures and constantly searched for wider acceptance of civilisations that seemed so different.
		Examples of works by Japanese potters associated with Bernard Leach such as Hamada Shoji and Kawai Kanjiro will be included.
	www.soas.ac.uk /gallery/Leach/home.html (294 words)

	NATIONAL MUSEUM & GALLERY CARDIFF Press Release 4-03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bernard Leach is regarded as the founding father of studio pottery and one of the most influential thinkers and artists of the twentieth century.
		Leach evolved an aesthetic which combined aspects of modernism with Eastern concepts of natural beauty, simplicity and functionality.
		Bernard Leach has a personal connection with the National Museum of Wales through his uncle and father-in-law, Williams Evans Hoyle.
	www.artefact.co.uk /pr/s8-03-NATIONAL-MUSEUM---CARDIFF-pr2.htm (386 words)

	Leach mug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His knowledge of the chemistry of ceramics was a great help and something of an innovation to Leach who had been concerned primarily with the aesthetics of pottery rather than the technical aspects.
		Leach and Hamada were like-minded and worked and relaxed well together.
		Leach's sons, David and Michael learnt their craft at the Leach Pottery before taking part in regular production and management.
	www.studiopottery.com /pots/01783b.html (536 words)

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