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History
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Taena Pottery was founded in
1948 by Loo Groves in the Forest of Dean. Loo was a pupil of Margaret
Leach, who had a pottery at Brockwear. Margaret had been trained at St
Ives by Bernard Leach (no relation). She was an accomplished potter in
the English Slipware tradition. Margaret joined Loo at the Taena community,
a group of Christian pacifists, when it moved to Upton St Leonards in
1950. By the time she left in 1955, the pottery had established its reputation
as a producer of high-quality, hand-made slipware.
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Click here to go to The Leach Pottery web site
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The pottery survived the break-up
of the community in the 1960's, and Loo continued the gentle evolution of the
pottery, developing the famous Taena blue glaze. Shortly before his death in
1975 he handed the pottery on to Sean and Vici Casserley. They had trained at
Cornwall College of Art in a course influenced and advised by Bernard and Janet
Leach, and assisted Michael Cardew at Wenford Bridge Pottery.
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TAENA
POTTERY