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Leigh Merritt

Artist's CV

 

Leigh Merritt, porcelain bottle, purple with blue crystals, LM020

BOTTLE (LM020)
purple with blue crystals
porcelain
9.4 x 5.9 in. diameter
SOLD

  

Leigh Merritt, Porcelain Vase, beige with silver crystals

VASE (LM019)
beige with silver crystals
porcelain
9.3 x 5.5 in. diameter
$150

Leigh Merritt, bottle, LM018, porcelain

BOTTLE (LM018)
yellow with greenish blue crystals
porcelain
9.3 in. tall x 5.5 in. diameter
RESERVED - $150

 

  

Leigh Merritt, Pale Turquoise Porcelain bottle, LM017

BOTTLE (LM017)
pale turquoise with turquoise crystals
porcelain
9.1 in. tall x 6.3 in. diameter
$150

VASE (detail at right)
yellow with green crystals
porcelain
9.5 in. tall x 4.75 in. diameter
$150

  

VASE (LM007)
beige with silver crystals
porcelain
8.5 x 4.5 in. diameter
$150

  

BOTTLE (LM006)
purple with blue crystals
porcelain
10 x 5.5 in. diameter
$150

Leigh Merritt, Porcelain bottle with green crystals, 7.75 x 5.25 in.

BOTTLE (LM014)
green with green crystals
porcelain
7.75 x 5.25 in. diameter
$130

  

Leigh Merritt, Beige porcelaine with silver crystals, LM021

BOTTLE (LM021)
beige with silver crystals
porcelain
10.6 x 4.7 in. diameter
$150

 

  


 

 

BOTTLE (LM002)
brown with silver crystals
porcelain
9.25 in. tall x 6 in. diameter
$150

 

 


BOTTLE (detail at right) (LM010)
yellow and blue with green and blue crystals
porcelain
10 x 6 in. diameter
$150

 

 

  

BOTTLE (detail at right) (LM012)
blue and yellow with blue and green crystals
porcelain
11.5 x 7 in. diameter
$200

  

 

 

Leigh Merritt was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick and grew up in the rural community of Tay Creek where he currently resides. After completing his BA with honours in English Language and Literature and a major in the Great Idea’s program at St. Thomas University he went on to study at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design. There he earned a Foundation Visual Arts Certificate in 2006, a Certificate in Specialty Photography in 2008, a Diploma in Fine Craft – Ceramics in 2010, and a Certificate in Advanced Studies in Visual Arts in 2011.

In 2010 he received the Heather Stone Emerging Artist Award at the Atlantic Craft Trade Show in Halifax and was awarded the Duffie-Crowell Award at graduation. In June 2010 he traveled to Medicine Hat,  Alberta, to attend a ceramics residency at The Shaw International Centre for Contemporary Ceramics.