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It is with regret that I have to report that
David died on 15th February 2005. David
Leach, the
first son of Bernard Leach, was born in Tokyo in 1911. David always seemed
destined to become a potter, as he spent his late childhood and teenage years
at the Leach Pottery and even before that received his first pottery lessons
from Hamada Shoji. At the age of
19 David joined his father at the Leach Pottery and learnt skills from
Bernard as well as other potters working there at the time. In 1934, David,
against his father's wishes, attended a managerial and technical course at a
college in the Potteries. This proved to be of great benefit to the pottery
in St. Ives and I think that later Bernard was even able to accept this fact.
Back at the Leach Pottery, the potter Harry Davis became a very great
influence and teacher to David and they remained friends until Harry's death
in 1986. David spent 25
years working at and then managing the Leach Pottery but in 1955 he moved
with his family to the Lowerdown Pottery just outside Bovey Tracey in Devon.
During the first four years at Lowerdown, David concentrated on working with
earthenware but then changed over to stoneware and the development of work in
porcelain, which he has continued throughout his career. In 2001 David
told me that he wouldn't be making any more pots, but he started to do a
little work again with the help of his son, Jeremy, a while later. This
included the eight fluted stoneware tea bowls, four of which are shown below,
that are in the mixed exhibition of tea bowls at the Harlequin Gallery from
6th March 2005. NOTE: - All sold at the Private View. |
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