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DARTINGTON
POTTERY:
STONEWARE ART FOR FINE LIVING
Dartington Pottery has built a reputation as one of the leading art potteries in England today.
Its history threads back to the 1930’s when the pioneering potter Bernard Leach set up the first pottery at Shinners Bridge, on the Dartington Hall Estate, in Devon. Post war, Leach moved to St. Ives, and the pottery was taken over by Marianne de Trey and Sam Haile.
In 1975, Dartington Pottery was founded as a training workshop for studio potters. This enterprise, guided by David Leach, was financially supported by the Crafts Council and the Dartington Hall Trust.
After 1983, the pottery focused on producing high fired stoneware designed by Janice Tchalenko. The meteoric success of Janice’s award-winning designs, combined with the creation of outstanding reduction glazes, helped to establish Dartington Pottery as a cutting-edge art pottery and an international centre of training excellence.
In 2006 the pottery moved from Devon to Surrey; joining forces with Grayshott Pottery, an Employees Benefit Trust, whose own beginnings start with the Arts and Crafts pottery at Compton, founded in 1898 by Mary Setton Watts.
Dartington Pottery continues its collaboration with Janice Tchalenko and other visiting artists, while embracing the expertise of Grayshott Pottery’s designer Janna Wareham and her team of decorators. |
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