Nic moved to Cornwall with his wife Jackie in 1975, following his studies in Studio Pottery he was the last student to be part of the Leach Pottery production team in St Ives. He had the opportunity for making his own individually designed pots to sell through the showroom and local galleries, under the leadership of Janet Leach, this was a formative time of his career. In 1991 he converted stables and set up his own pottery and Jackie’s weaving studio at Trelowarren, near Helston. Much of Nic’s work uses local Cornish clay and the glazes used on the surface are traditional glazes of the Leach Pottery; celadon, a safe green, a black to rust Tenmoku and Ying Ching, a grey Celadon. Decoration is achieved by applying oxides of cobalt, iron copper or manganese. This characteristically produces a soft indefinite line.