It has been a busy year here at the Leach Pottery. We have seen more local people join us for workshops, a new pottery apprentice join our studio, the recruitment of seven additional roles and work beginning on our new Learning and Production Centre. Here are a few of our highlights from 2024: The Learning... Continue Reading →
Leach Pottery Limited Edition Centenary Range Launches with the Yunomi
To celebrate and honour 100 years of the Leach Pottery, Lead Potter Roelof Uys is crafting a new Limited Edition range of 1200 pieces of tableware. The first 100 Limited Edition Yunomi are now available to buy exclusively through the Leach Pottery website. Below, Roelof explains why he has chosen the humble but elegant yunomi to launch the... Continue Reading →
Wednesday Wanderers: Leach 100 Project
In line with the Leach 100 years celebrations in 2020, the Wednesday Wanderers are working on a project of their own. Who are the Wednesday Wanderers? The Wednesday Wanderers are a group of people in the St Ives area who live with memory-loss issues and dementia. They and their carers meet up each week to... Continue Reading →
Warren MacKenzie: A Tribute
With sadness, we began to hear the news of Warren’s death at the very start of this year receiving messages from potters and his devotees, and seeing obituaries in respected publications alongside boundless expressions of loss on social media. One thing’s for sure: Warren is missed. This post looks at Warren’s relationship with the Leach... Continue Reading →
