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Abstract Landscape
Oil on canvas, 71 x 91cm (28 x 36”)
Signed
€400 - €600
A Balauster vase with dark green
ground. 26cm tall
€500 - €1,000
A pioneer of modernist ceramics, Leach was born in Hong Kong and originally studied painting
and etching in London. Turning to pottery he spent many years in Korea and Japan. He set up
a pottery studio in St.Ives with renowned Japanese potter Shoji Hamada. Leach succeeded in
abolishing the barrier between “art” and “craft”, in creating a successful blend of modernist abstract
design and traditional techniques.
Born in Southampton, Fussell studied at Saint Martin’s College and the Royal College of Art under Rodrigo
Moynihan. Fussell held his first solo exhibition at The Beaux Arts Gallery in 1956. A Tate Gallery and Arts
Council Retrospective exhibition was held in 1976. Examples of his work where shown in an Arts Council
of Northern Ireland show in 1976, including a work under the title Whatever Something.