Joanna Wason

Joanna grew up near Bideford in North Devon. She came to the Leach Pottery to work for Janet Leach in 1988, mixing her clays and glazes, making saggars for her smoke firings and acting as her general workshop assistant until Janet’s death in 1997.

After Janet died Joanna continued making pots on her wheel in the Leach Pottery Old workshop, until late 2005 when it was closed for renovation to become the Leach Pottery Museum. Joanna now makes her pots in a caravan workshop, as well as working part-time here in the Leach Shop.

Most often Joanna’s pots are thrown; the porcelain is then glazed with iron, white or ash glazes, and stoneware pots are glazed with iron or ash. All these pots are fired to 1280 degrees C in a reduction atmosphere in a gas kiln.

Our Shop has a good stock of Joanna’s wonderful work.

Joanna currently has work in our Exhibition: The Leach Pottery: One & All, presented in the Entrance Gallery until 1 November.