 In 1924 Pleydell-Bouverie was taken on by Bernard Leach at his pottery in St. Ives.She remained at the Leach Pottery for a year and learnt alongside Michael Cardew, Shoji Hamada and Tsuronosuke Matsubayashi known as Matsu.She did the necessary odd jobs at the pottery whilst observing technical lectures from Matsu and was soon given the nickname of "Beano".