William Marshall was born in St Ives in 1923. At the age fourteen he became the first apprentice taken on at the Leach Pottery, where he trained as a thrower. He remained at the pottery for almost forty years, becoming Bernard Leach’s foreman and in the latter years of Leach’s life his hands, throwing the larger studio pots. From the 1950s onwards Marshall began to produce works in his own style, highly influenced by both the colours and hardy coastal Cornish landscape as well as Japanese styles, particularly the work of Shoji Hamada.
In 1977 he went on to establish his own pottery at Lelant, assisted by his son Andrew, alongside teaching at Cornwall Technical College, Redruth.
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