David Leach
May 2000
Leach / Bowen dish (mark)
Leach / Bowen dish (mark)
See also:
Leach / Bowen dish (mark) 2002.
As readers of these pages will know, Clive Bowen has not used his seal for the last thirty years. David Leach persuaded him to find it and use it on this pot to show that it was a two-man effort.
Leach, David
David Leach was born in Tokyo in 1911, and was first taught to pot not by his father Bernard but by Shoji Hamada. He studied at North Staffs Technical College and in 1930 joined the Leach Pottery where he stayed, on and off, for twenty-five years. He helped the family business in artistic, practical, technical and managerial capacities.
In 1953 he headed the ceramics department of Loughborough College. He started the Aylesford Pottery in 1954, handing it over a year later to Colin Pearson.
After the handover of Aylesford Pottery he moved to Bovey Tracey in Devon and set up Lowerdown Pottery.
He was awarded the O.B.E in 1987, and is important for his development of porcelain suitable for studio pottery and his services to education. David died in February, 2005.
His three sons; John, Jeremy and Simon are all potters.
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