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Handmade Canadian Pottery

Pots in the Leach/ HAMADA tradition, made by hand in DunbaR,

Our Story

 

Martin Peters apprenticed at the Leach Pottery, St. Ives, in 1974-1975. Fifty years on, the studio continues the Leach/Hamada line: quiet, useful pots shaped by English and Japanese folk craft.


Ron Vallis trained with former Leach Pottery manager John Reeve and with Sally Michener and Tam Irving at the Vancouver School of Art; Ron also apprenticed with Tam Irving in West Vancouver and worked with John Reeve on Granville Island.  


Together we continue the Japanese tradition of Mingei (honouring traditional pottery forms) in our Dunbar studio.


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Martin Peters

Ron Vallis

Events

EXHIBITION OF NEW POTS

Mingei Exhibition Tokyo

EXHIBITION OF NEW POTS

VISUALSPACE GALLERY

3352 DUNBAR ST.

SEPT. 11-13.

JAPANESE EXHIBITIONS

Mingei Exhibition Tokyo

EXHIBITION OF NEW POTS

GALLERY ST. IVES TOKYO

FEBRUARY 2026


catalogue: https://gallery-st-ives-exhibition-catalogues.square.site/uploads/b/d68c8220-6bdb-11eb-ab01-7d84bd5bbada/11906dd0-fa24-11f0-9bb8-15602a7c4155.pdf

Mingei Exhibition Tokyo

Mingei Exhibition Tokyo

Mingei Exhibition Tokyo

Takashimaya Department Store, Nihombashi, Tokyo August 26-September 7, 2026


It is more than 100 years since Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada moved to England and established the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall.

At the Mingei Exhibition held at the Takashimaya every three years, we will be showcasing works by Tomoo Hamada as well as those by contemporary British  & Canadian studio potters.

Martin Peters will be exhibiting 47 pieces in this exhibition.

Catalogue will be made available soon.

A lineage you can hold in two hands. 



St. Ives, 1974

The Leach Pottery

An apprenticeship at the most storied pottery in the English-speaking world, in the workshop founded by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada.


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where to find our work/ contact us

 Stores that carry our pottery:

Itsumo: 279 East 6th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C.: https://itsumo.ca/


prunus, 105-6833 Buswell Street, Richmond, B.C: https://prunusshop.com/


Polygon, 101 Carrie Cates Ct. North Vancouver: https://thepolygon.ca/


Musuem of Anthropology, UBC, 6393 NW Marine Dr, Vancouver, B.C.: https://moa.ubc.ca/

 


please email us: 

jmartinpeters@gmail.com or ronvallis@gmail.com or 


call us at 

604-202-6832 (for Martin) or 778-899-2596 (for Ron).


PLease visit us at Dunbar Pottery

4058 W 27th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5V 2K3, Canada

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    4058 West 27th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V5V 2K3, Canada

    (604) 202-6832

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    Photos by Ed peck,  Kent Peters & Ron Vallis

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