Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie

Her interest in pottery developed while living in London in the 1920s and seeing pots made by Roger Fry for the Omega Workshops. She studied under Dora Billington at the Central from 1921 to 1923 and then spent one year working with Bernard Leach at St. Ives. "Beano" as she was known, got to know Matsubayashi, a Japanese potter who helped her set up a pottery at her family home, Coleshill, in Wiltshire. She was joined by Norah Braden, another former Central student, from 1928 to 1936, and they experimented with a wide range of wood and vegetable ashes for glazes. She was founder member of the Craftsman Potters Association and served on the Council for over six years. She wrote regularly for "Ceramic Review".