JANET 
LEACH

Having trained under Shoji Hamada before settling in St Ives at The Leach Pottery. Janet Leach’s bold free work in stoneware and porcelain had a strong elemental quality with its gestural poured glazing and marking, and her preference for wood firing many pieces gave it an expressive quality that owed much to Japanese tradition, but also showed an appreciation of the broader ambition in modern American and European abstraction.