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Michael Cardew (1901-1982)Michael Cardew was a renowned English studio potter. From 1923 to 1926 he studied under Bernard Leach at St Ives, afterwards setting up his own studio at Winchcombe in the Cotswolds. Influenced by early English pottery, he specialised in the production of lead-glazed slipware for everyday use - especially large cider jugs. In 1939 he moved to Wenford Bridge in Cornwall and experimented with stoneware and tin-glazes. In 1942 he went to West Africa and took over the pottery school of Achimota College on the Gold Coast. In 1950 he was appointed Pottery Officer in Nigeria. He started the Abuja Pottery, a training centre for native potters, and would spend ten months of each year there, and two months at Wenford Bridge, which was looked after by his partner, Ivan McMeekin. Read on: |
