Wenford Bridge Pottery
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Wenford Bridge Pottery St Breward Bodmin Moor, Cornwall was the home and workplace of studio potter Michael Cardew and his family. It was formerly an Inn. Cardew had worked with Bernard Leach in St Ives until 1926. From there he went to Winchcombe in Gloucestershire.
The first kiln on the site was built in 1939 by Michael Cardew with the help of Michael Leach Bernard's son. It was an updraft kiln and was fired only a few times before the onset of W.W.II when blackout restrictions brought work to a temporary halt.[1]
In 1950 an Australian potter Ivan McMeekin, became a partner and ran the pottery whilst Cardew became a pottery instructor at Achimota on the African Gold Coast. McMeekin built a downdraught kiln and produced stoneware there until 1954. Michael Cardew returned in 1965.[2]
Cardew taught many potters who were later to achieve success in their own right, including Svend Bayer, Mark Hewitt and Rupert Spira.
The pottery became the workshop of Seth Cardew on the death of his father in 1983. It was sold in 2004 when Seth relocated to Masia Albadas in Spain.[3] It is no longer a working pottery.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.wenfordbridge.com/index1.htm
- ^ http://www.studiopottery.com/cgi-bin/pp.cgi?item=2013
- ^ http://www.cardew-spain.com/
