Janet Leach: Potter by Wason, Joanna

Janet Leach: Potter

Janet Leach's childhood in Texas through the Roaring Twenties and the Depression imbued her with resilience and...
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Author: Joanna Wason
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Language: English
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Janet Leach: Potter by Wason, Joanna

Janet Leach: Potter

Dhs. 134.20

Janet Leach: Potter

Dhs. 134.20
Author: Joanna Wason
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Janet Leach's childhood in Texas through the Roaring Twenties and the Depression imbued her with resilience and numerous practical skills, initially acquired on her grandparents' self-sufficient farmstead. At nineteen she took a Greyhound bus to cosmopolitan New York and soon found work as a sculptor's assistant. During the war she worked on Staten Island, welding the hulls of US-Navy destroyers. After discovering pottery, she met Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, before spending two years potting in Japan, where her love of pottery was sealed.

Bernard and Janet planned to marry and build a pottery near Kyoto, but two years absence from St Ives obliged Bernard to return to Cornwall. A year later in 1956, Janet reluctantly left Japan, persuaded to join Bernard in a country completely unknown to her, England. There she stayed, becoming manager of the world-famous Leach Pottery for the next 40 years.

This biography uses previously unpublished letters, notebooks and diaries and is a richly-informed portrayal of a pioneering potter.



Author: Joanna Wason
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
Published: 04/30/2024
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.80w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781916846005

About the Author
Joanna Wason (n?e Griffiths) was born in 1952 in Berlin where her father was involved in Cold War intelligence gathering. Stalin's unpredictability prompted her mother to return to Devon with Joanna and her brothers, and eventually in her twenties Joanna moved to Cornwall. In the late-1980s she was employed by Janet Leach as her workshop assistant at the Leach Pottery in St Ives. After Janet's death in 1997, Joanna remained at the pottery concentrating on her own pots for almost a decade. She still works in the gallery at the Leach Pottery, but makes pots at home, in a caravan in her garden.

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