Nic Collins

BORN 1958
1985-1987 STUDIED AT DERBY ART SCHOOL
1988 - 2000 SET UP POWDERMILLS POTTERY IN DARMOOR
2000 MOVED TO MORETONHAMPSTEAD

Part of a group that experiments with traditional wood firing, this includes Clive Bowen and Svend Bayer.

This is a pot I have in my collection, stands about 23cms in height. The outside is covered in many blisters.

I don't know if I am allow to say this but I have a large one in my bedroom! .... and as you showed me yours then I will show you mine.


It is 25.5 inches tall (65 cm)

And now for something completely different..................................................

An Earthenware Rhubarb Forcer made by Nic Collins at Powdersmills Pottery and been out in the garden here for over 15 years.

You're not wrong about Goldmark prices - got this little treasure by Nic on a visit there last year. Porcelain, unmarked, lots of 'blisters'

I went under the house looking for something else and found this. Dates from the 1990s and around 47 cm tall.

I bought this today in a charity shop. There are no marks. Crockern Tor is about 2 miles from Powdermills Pottery on Dartmoor. It isn't representative of Nic Collins' recent work. There are no marks. It may not even come from Powdermills. Any thoughts on its provenance?

You could email Nic?

He might have done such things in the mid 1990s to bring in some money and didn't mark it as it wasn't Powermills or his real style.

I think there is an earthenware "rhubarb forcer" on the Nic Collins thread, which isn't marked. I bought it directly from him.

Thanks, studio-pots. I hadn't considered emailing him. I did this morning & got an almost immediate reply. He's confirmed it is one of his plates.

a small stoneware wood fired  vase (unmarked)

It was from a solo exhibition of his that I held some time ago. It was big I know and the picture was taken by Nic so he clearly liked it.

A picture of Nic with his "showroom" behind him - I haven't been down for a few years so it might have changed.

They have an exhibition coming up at the pottery in the Spring:

Gnarly Dudes revisited, 18th - 19th April, Moretonhampstead, Devon, follow it on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gnarlydudesexhibition

studio-pots wrote:A picture of Nic with his "showroom" behind him - I haven't been down for a few years so it might have changed.

A friend went down to the one last year and judging by the photos, no, nothing's changed.

I would have bought one of those little bottle vases if I'd gone.

Perhaps you'll have a chance on Saturday.

Checked them out. Very tempted but at £150 each they were out of my price range.
I did like the seven times fired twin handled cup on the far left. Not for sale. It's going in for a few more firings to fill the firing cracks.

What were £150 each? The teabowls?

No, the little bottle vases with the shell imprints and nice ash glazes on the shelf behind