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St Ives is world renown for its traditions in Studio Pottery through the legacy of Bernard Leach and the Leach Pottery – St Ives Ceramics celebrates and extends these 

It was opened in 1990 by former Leach Potter John Bedding.  Within it’s four distict gallery spaces it houses some of the best collections of studio pottery in the country.

It also holds a collection of heritage pots known as the CBS Collection – this is a revolving stock of British and Japanese Master Potters of the last century, curated and put together, by arts consultant Kate Chertavian and John Bedding