In memory of

Janet Darnell Leach

15 March 1918 — 12 September 1997
Grand Saline · St Ives
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Janet Darnell Leach, was an American studio potter working in later life at the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall in England. After studying pottery at Black Mountain, North Carolina under Shoji Hamada, a visiting artisan, she traveled to Japan to work with him. She studied with him for two years and always considered him to be her principal mentor. She was the first foreign woman to study pottery in Japan and only the second westerner.

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