'Afordable to all '" Thats so great but unfortunately pots from Richard Batterham are now unafordable here in the UK as the so called "Celerbrity world " are breaking the market sadly.
Yep, sadly once the “collectors” get hold everything is priced beyond the everyday person. Recognition is a double edged sword, it means a steadier income for the potter but for the rest of us we can’t afford the pots anymore…
Hello from Japan. So happy to see Leach-sensei's legacy so alive in the the US! In fact, his grandson Simon Leach offers an excellent series of instructional videos on his RU-vid channel. And so it goes on... ; )
Oh man, I sucked up as much as I could in the late ‘70’s when I was learning studio and production pottery about all these people from all the ceramics books, magazines and journals I could find!! Bernard Leach, Shoji Hamada, Michael Cardew, McKenzie, Oestreich, Illian, we’re my pottery gurus!!! I photocopied their work and pasted them around my studio as examples to strive for!! I “retired” from pottery decades ago… I miss those days..the making of the pots, not the business part (I burned out from the business part, that and not having a studio anymore)… 0:47 … I visited the Leach Pottery in January 1977 and stayed in a B&B right on the harbors edge (iirc it was 6 pounds for the night…unbelievable!!) 3:34 … I bought an oatmeal glaze cereal bowl (like the #10 in the photo), it was stolen when I got back to the states 😢 4:05 .. OMG! I bought one of those lidded soup bowls.. still have it, we use it as a sugar bowl… also bought a temokku glazed lidded pitcher…use it occasionally so as to reduce the chance of breaking it!! 16:32 .. I have to say I like Clary’s earlier work than these… they’re very creative and fun but I just prefer the earlier over the latter… 1:17 … I hated electric wheels so I built my own kickwheel modeled after the triangular frame of the English type… I could give away my entire studio but I will never part with that wheel!! ❤❤❤ Thank you for posting the video!!! It was too short!!!