In 1979 Nic was invited by Janet Leach to join The Leach Pottery in St. Ives. He was the last student to be part of the production team. He had the opportunity for making his own individually designed pots to sell through the showroom and local galleries. In 1981 he converted stables and set up his own pottery at Trelowarren, near Helston. In 2006, Nic moved his workshop home. Here he continues to produce an extensive range of domestic kitchenware and individually designed stoneware and porcelain pottery, thrown on an electric ‘Alsager’ wheel. Much of Nic’s work is made in locally produced, West Country stoneware and porcelain clays. The glazes used on the surface of the biscuit fired pot are all considered to be traditional glazes of ‘The Leach Pottery’; Celadon, a sage green; a black to rust Tenmoku and Ying Ching, a grey Celadon. Decoration is achieved by applying oxides of Cobalt, Iron, Copper or Manganese to the glaze surface. This characteristically produces a soft indefinite line. He designs his own kilns, which are reduction fired to 1300’C. In 2005 he opened his new gallery in Helston, “Nic Harrison Ceramics”. Price: From £12 - £1,000 | 
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