The Leach Year: For Intermediate potters
Description
Clay. Form. Technique. Colour. Beauty. Utility.
A series of workshops across the year for potters to develop their skills The Potter’s Year strives to nurture a small group of potters to develop their practice, through consolidating production skills within the ethos established by Bernard Leach.
In addition, potters are encouraged to question and explore what it means to be a sustainable potter 100 years on from the beginning of the Leach Pottery.
The Leach Pottery has been a place for potters to learn over the last 100 years. Founded by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada, the pottery has hosted potters ranging from Michael Cardew and William Marshall to Warren MacKenzie and Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie.
Informed by the founding principles of the Leach Pottery, the potters forged their practices, styles and approaches all rooted in sound technique, form and sensitivity to utility and beauty.
Who is the Leach Year for?
The Leach Year is the ideal experience for makers who already have throwing confidence (reliably centering up to 3kg of clay, throwing repeat forms with a degree of consistency) and who are committed to developing their own practice. Potters may have access regularly to a wheel or kiln outside of this course but this is not a requirement.
The Leach year is taught to two small groups of 5 potters concurrently (Cohort 1 and 2 mostly meet on different dates).
The workshops are taught by a small group of different tutors to ensure a diversity of skills are imparted.
Some aspects of the course are taught to both cohorts (two groups combined to a total of 10 people) at the same time.
If a participant has attended a Leach Pottery course previously, the Leach Year will offer you the opportunity to develop and consolidate approaches you have encountered before.
For a beginner’s year-long course please see our website.
Full details about the Leach Year can be seen here: https://www.leachpottery.com/the-leach-year-2026
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