Janet Darnell Leach - Ceramic Maker / Designer
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Janet Darnell Leach (15 March 1918 - 12 September 1997), 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 travelled 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
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