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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
five solo exhibitions at the Harlequin Gallery with the last one taking place
during April 2005. His next solo exhibition begins at the Harlequin on
Sunday 25th February 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. The pots displayed below are currently
available from the gallery |
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Nic has is own web site that you can access
by clicking HERE. |
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