Nic Harrison
Nic Harrison's GalleryBorn 1949
1975-79 Full-time mature student in studio pottery at Cornwall College
1979-81 Employed at the Leach Pottery, St Ives
1981 Established own pottery with wife Jackie
Exhibitions
Mixed media exhibitions at
Cornwall Crafts Association since 1978
Penwith Galleries, St Ives from 1980-86
Newlyn Orion Gallery since 1980
Bristol Guild Gallery 1985
Ship Aground Gallery since 1990
Waterside Gallery, St Mawes since 1989
Solo Exhibitions
North Cornwall Museum and Gallery, Camelford
Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Collections work in private collections in London, USA, Australia,
Germany, Japan, Switzerland, and Avon Schools Art &
Design Loan Service, Bristol
Background
Nic moved to Cornwall with his wife, Jackie, in 1975. Following his studies at Cornwall College in Studio Pottery, he worked at the Leach Pottery in St Ives with Janet Leach, Trevor Corser and Jason Wason.
In 1981 Nic and Jackie, a weaver, set up their own pottery and weaving workshop with showroom at Trelowarren, the historic home of the Vyvyan family near Helston. Nic produces an extensive range of kitchen, domestic, oven-to-table stoneware pottery, all hand-thrown, selling direct to the public and through local galleries. Much of his work is in the locally produced stoneware clay, although he also uses porcelain clay. Decoration is being kept simple, using cobalt, iron, copper and manganese oxides. The glazes used are a sage green Celadon and a black to rust Tenmoku. He prefers to leave his forms uncluttered by decoration, but when oxides are used, the ‘indefinite line’ is achieved by decorating on the surface of the glaze and is characteristic of his work.