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Nic Collins
The pots displayed below are currently available from the gallery
Large bowl. Height: 10.8cm. (4.25") Diameter: 31.75cm (12.5”) Price: £120
Long necked large bottle. Purchased by the previous owner from Nic’s 1996 solo Harlequin Gallery exhibition. Height: 48.0 cm (18.9 inches) Price: £375
Nic Collins trained as a potter at Derby College of Art and followed this up with experience in workshops in Italy and Germany. In 1988 he started up his own pottery in the middle of Dartmoor and now works just a few miles away in the town of Moretonhampstead. Nic is inspired by medieval English pottery and wood-fired Japanese ceramics. Firing with wood gives the pots their warm "toasted" colours and careful packing of the kiln, based on the traditional Japanese anagama kilns, gives some degree of control over the product. The firing can take up to 60 hours, stoking every 15 minutes and after a 4 day cooling period the kiln is unpacked. Nic has had six solo exhibitions at the Harlequin Gallery with the last one taking place during February/March 2007.  Note: in the photograph above Nic is seen showing one of his pots to the distinguished collector, Bill Ismay MBE, during his 2nd exhibition at the Harlequin Gallery in 1999. Bill Ismay, who died in 2001, had a number of examples of Nic's work in his collection.
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