Artist potter with Bernard LEACH 1932-34, who gained his skills at the Minton Pottery during an eight-year apprenticeship from the age of fourteen.

In 1932 he was persuaded to join the Leach Pottery by the writer and critic Herbert Read, and in 1934 he left to take over from David LEACH at the Dartington Pottery, Skinners Bridge, Devon, and to teach at Dartington Hall School. He gradually realised that production throwing held no interest for him and he resolved never again to make two pots alike, an attitude he sustained throughout the remainder of his life.