Bernard Leach

  

    Bernard Leach was born in 1887 in Hong Kong. He attended the London School of Art where he studied etching. In 1920 Leach moved back to England where he and Shoji Hamada started Leach Pottery. This went on to become a well known pottery studio within England. There he produced ceramics in the tradition of Asian pottery, especially Raku. Later, on Leach went to Japan to help Shoji Hamada open his pottery studio. Leach also wrote the manual A Potter's Book in 1940, and biographies Kenzan and His Tradition in 1966 and Hamada, Potter in 1975.