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Joanna Wason (née Griffiths) was born in 1952 in Berlin, where her father worked in Cold War intelligence. According to her mother ‘Stalin was being a bit of a nuisance’ so she took Joanna and her brothers back to Devon. In her early twenties Joanna moved with her young family to the far west of Cornwall where she had various jobs including making sculptures to commission. In 1988 Janet Leach employed her as her workshop assistant at the Leach Pottery in St.Ives. After Janet’s death in 1997 Joanna stayed at the Leach Pottery where she made her own individual pots for the next ten years. She still works part-time at the Leach gallery but now makes her pots in a workshop near St. Just.
