Beth Spindler on tue 27 mar 07
Lee,
Great information.....and I blush to think I forgot to google amazon......I am so used to barnes and noble and waldenbooks. Thank you.
Did you ever meet Simon Leach? BL's grandson? He seems to be a really down to earth guy. Seth took me to meet him when I was in Spain and I was thinking he would be this snob of sorts, but he wasn't at all. He was adding on to his studio and showed me around. I have a photo of he and Seth discussing the new kiln room. and his gallery (Simon's) was filled with colorful bowls with texture and there were bowls unglazed as well. Beautiful work. His work was a lot different from Seth's - more modern I suppose? It was amazing to be in the same room with them though and hear them discuss pottery. I know I know..they are just people too, but for this gal who grew up making three-layer mudpies with a sandy soil-based "icing" in the backyard...it was a very memorable expericence. :) Sorry to rattle on.....must be the spring weather:)
Beth in VA
-----Original Message-----
From: togeika@CLAYCRAFT.ORG
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Sent: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: Leach - Edmund De Waal ?
On 3/27/07, Beth Spindler wrote:
> just a British potter commenting on the works of another British potter.
Someone else once said he apprenticed with Shimaoka too. But that
is not true either.
> NOW I do have to find that BOOK!!! :)
I put both names in Amazon. Miricle! :
http://www.amazon.com/St-Ives-Artists-Bernard-Leach/dp/1854372270/
I would recommend Cooper's book on Leach.. Cooper had access
through the Leach family, to papers nobody else has been able to use.
http://www.amazon.com/Bernard-Leach-Life-Emmanuel-Cooper/dp/0300099290/
Cooper explains that Leach and Janet wanted to settle down in
Kyoto ( Janet didn't want to go back to St. Ives), but Yanagi wouldn't
help them because he thought the Japanese would ignore him if he moved
here. But living in England, he was "The Sage of England."
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Lee in Mashiko, Japan
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
http://potters.blogspot.com/
"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." -
Henry David Thoreau
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