Barry Krzywicki Residency and Available Works

 from 6th June  

From 6th June the Leach Pottery shop will make available a collection of new work by American potter Barry Krzywicki, who has been resident at the Pottery studio throughout May of this year.

A potter with no formal qualifications in ceramics, Krzywicki has trained under some of contemporary ceramic’s leading practitioners and his keen interest in historic and folk pottery has seen him travel extensively in Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, Columbia, Haiti, Thailand and Japan.

Krzywicki began his career attending summer courses at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado, where he studied under one-time Leach pottery apprentice Jeff Oestreich. He was later selected to work as studio assistant to David Leach, and Leach apprentices Warren MacKenzie and John Reeve during their time at Anderson Ranch and accordingly the Leach tradition became a key influence on his own aesthetic development. Workshops with John Leach, Clive Bowen and Mick and Sheila Casson also had an impact on the development of his work. 

Krzywicki has been a studio potter for more than 30 years, is a respected ceramic artist and teacher and has lectured at the Denver Art Museum on Spanish Majolica and Lusterware. He exhibits his Asian wood-fired and glazed pottery both in the US and abroad and his work is held at Denver’s Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art.

In 2013 he came to St Ives for the first time and was introduced to Leach Pottery Lead Potter John Bedding and Senior Potter Roelof Uys by their mutual friend Jill Fanshawe Kato. He accepted their resident artist invitation and this exhibition showcases the works made at the Leach studio this spring. All works are for sale.

‘As a ceramic artist I am intrigued by the visual definition of form and its nuances.  I love the subtle ways that a curve or shadow influences a pot’s volume or how changing the dimensions alters a vessel’s presence. At times I wish I was born a hundred years earlier and visited potters and collected work that is no longer being made. I am drawn to old pots full of vitality, used lovingly, cared for and passed down through generations. I hope some of my own work may become part of this cycle, as I record my own experience through this age-old craft.’ Barry Krzywicki