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- Janet Leach (1918-1997), nee Darnell, was born in Texas, USA. She made stoneware and porcelain pots, thrown, coiled or slab built, with minimal decoration and glaze.
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Janet Darnell was born in Grand Saline, Texas, United States, in 1918. [1] Her early years involved moving to New York to work with sculptor Robert M. Cronbach and becoming involved with the Federal Works Art Project.
Born in Texas, Janet Leach moved to New York to work in sculpture before studying pottery and establishing her own workshop. This was followed by a crucial period in Japan working with Shoji Hamada before she settled in St Ives.
Born in Texas, USA in 1918, Janet was already an accomplished potter and sculptor before she met Bernard Leach, Shoji Hamada, and their colleague Soetsu Yanagi during their tour of the States in 1952.
Janet Leach (1918-1997), nee Darnell, was born in Texas, USA. She made stoneware and porcelain pots, thrown, coiled or slab built, with minimal decoration and glaze. She enrolled in sculpture classes in New York (1938) and worked as a sculptor's assistant on the Federal Art Project and for Robert Cronback on architectural commissions.
She was born Janet Darnell, in Grand Saline, a small town in Texas, in 1918, an only child of parents whose families had travelled to Texas by horse and wagon.
Janet was born in Texas, USA, and was brought up by devout Methodist parents. She rebelled from what she perceived as their ‘prejudices’ and attended art school, before moving to New York where she started her career as a sculptor. During the Second World War she enrolled as a welder with the Navy.
Oct 7, 2006 · Born in Texas, USA, she originally trained as a sculptor in New York before taking up ceramics in the late 1940s. After a subsequent meeting with Bernard Leach and Japanese potter Shoji Hamada who were on tour in the States, Janet Leach lived and worked in Japan before moving to St Ives in 1956.
