Handmade Canadian Pottery


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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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VISUALSPACE GALLERY
3352 DUNBAR ST.
SEPT. 11-13.
GALLERY ST. IVES TOKYO
FEBRUARY 2026
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
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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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).
4058 W 27th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5V 2K3, Canada
Dunbar Pottery
4058 West 27th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V5V 2K3, Canada
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