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Katharine
Pleydell-Bouverie
Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie
or "Beano" as she was known was born in Berkshire, England back in
1895 into one of the country's aristocratic families. She first became
interested in pottery when she visited Roger Fry at his Omega Workshops and
saw examples of his work, which resulted in her attending the Central School of Arts & Crafts in London
to study pottery herself. It was in 1923 that she first met Bernard Leach at
an exhibition of his work in London when she asked him if he would take her
on at his pottery in St. Ives. Initially he refused but accepted her when she
asked him again the following year.
She stayed at the Leach Pottery for a year where she learnt in the company of
Leach, Shoji Hamada and Tsuronosuke Matsubayashi and then started her first
pottery in the grounds of the family estate at Coleshill in Berkshire, using
a kiln designed by Matsubayashi. In 1946 she moved to her second pottery at
Kilmington Manor in Wiltshire where she devoted her life to the study of ash
glazes until her death in 1985.
Available from 30th November 2006
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