Janet Leach

Janet Darnell Leach (15 Maris 1918 - 12 Satumba 1997), ta kasance 'yar ƙasar Amurka mai ginin tukwane tana aiki a Leach Pottery da ke St Ives, Cornwall a Ingila. Bayan ta yi karatun tukwane a Black Mountain, North Carolina a ƙarƙashin Shoji Hamada, wani mai fasaha da ya zo ziyara, ta yi tafiya zuwa Japan don yin aiki tare da shi. Ta yi karatu tare da shi tsawon shekaru biyu kuma koyaushe tana ɗaukarsa a matsayin babban mai ba ta shawara. Ita ce mace ta farko 'yar ƙasar waje da ta yi karatun tukwane a Japan kuma ta biyu ce kawai 'yar yammacin duniya.

Bayan ta dawo Amurka daga Japan, a shekarar 1955 ta auri Bernard Leach, fitaccen mai ginin tukwane na Burtaniya, wanda ta yi karatu tare da shi a baya. Sun koma Burtaniya don gudanar da aikin sa a St. Ives. Janet Leach ta ci gaba da samun tasirin kyawawan kayan kwalliyar Japan a cikin tukwane da yumbu, kuma aikinta ya karu sosai. A tsakanin 2006-2007 an yi wani babban nazari kan aikinta a Tate St Ives .

 Rayuwa 
An haifi Janet Darnell a Grand Saline, Texas, Amurka, a shekara ta 1918.  Shekarunta na farko sun haɗa da ƙaura zuwa New York don yin aiki tare da mai sassaka Robert M. Cronbach da kuma shiga cikin Aikin Fasaha na Tarayya. Ta yi aure na ɗan lokaci a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin mai walda a wani wurin jigilar kaya a Tsibirin Staten . 

Daga ƙarshe ta fara aiki da yumbu kuma ta koyi amfani da keken tukwane. A shekarar 1948 ta kafa injin tukwane a cikin wani yanki na Steiner a Spring Valley.  Ta koyar da tukwane a wani asibitin kula da lafiyar kwakwalwa a New York.

Bayan ta haɗu da Bernard Leach da Shoji Hamada a Kwalejin Black Mountain, North Carolina, ta sami amincewar Hamada ta yi aiki tare da shi a Mashiko bayan ya koma Japan. Ta yi tafiya zuwa can a shekarar 1954, ta jirgin ruwa. Darnell ya shafe lokaci mai tsawo tare da Bernard Leach kuma daga ƙarshe suka amince su yi aure, da farko suna da niyyar zama a Japan. Duk da haka, tare da ɗan Bernard David Leach ya bar Leach Pottery don kafa nasa ɗakin studio, suka koma Ingila a shekarar 1956. 

 Manazarta 
Obituary: Janet Leach, Emmanuel Cooper, Friday 12 September 1997 at independent.co.uk Retrieved 23 December 2016
Rukuni:Mutuwan 1997
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1918