Resident artist

Nina King

Nina is a landscape artist and the owner of Talent Gallery which she took over in June 2024. She is based in Wellington, Somerset. Her collection at the Talent Gallery features acrylic paintings inspired by nature and the local area. You'll find a range of options available from cards and prints to framed original paintings.

10 January 2025 - 21 February 2025

Sara Ballarano

Living in Devon, Sara is surrounded by animals and wildlife. She completed a BA in Fine Art in 2004 and since then has built up a portfolio of horse and animal paintings. Horses have been her inspiration, obsessed since childhood they have been a constant in her life, to capture the essence of these graceful animals on the canvas brings Sara nearly as much joy as being around them and interacting with them. 

10 January 2025 - 21 February 2025

Annie Musgrove

Annie Musgrove lives on the Somerset-Devon border working mostly in oil, adding layers to build up a depth to her work in which she captures the elemental nature of the rural landscape around her. Annie’s work captures the vigour and wonder of nature that surrounds us. 

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10 January 2025 - 21 February 2025

Gavin Middlewood

Inspired by the stunning beaches and woodlands of the South Hams, Gavin's work celebrates the beauty of nature through bold use of colour and texture, with an intimate close-up approach that transforms the natural work into striking art.​

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10 January 2025 - 7 February 2025

Victoria Ward

Victoria is a founder member of the
Wiveliscombe Art Collective. She creates intricate and colourful illustrated maps using ink and watercolour. Birds also continue to feature in Victoria's other work. The paintings are made using Indian Ink and a Chinese brush technique. She seeks to capture the character of each subject in a minimalist and fluid style.

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Ongoing

Susie Tyler

Susie grew up in Devon and currently lives in Tiverton. She works in an illustrative style, creating characters in pencil and watercolour for greeting cards and DIY craft packs, as well as producing original artwork. She loves the natural world, especially trees and rivers, everything tiny, the world of books, and music.

Ongoing

Janet Jordan

Janet is a painter and printmaker and occasional calligrapher. Her favourite medium is etching and she produces open edition prints. In her work, Janet also enjoys producing landscapes and views using pen and ink.
She is often inspired by the natural world, poetry and quotations.​

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Ongoing

Anita Hedditch

Anita learnt woodturning through lockdown. Her Grandfather was a carpenter joiner and being brought up on a building site, practical skills were observed in formative life. The wood itself often guides what Anita makes by looking at the grain pattern and colours. Whilst making bowls and lamp-bases are a favourite many other forms are explored.

Ongoing

Nick Gontar

Nick specialises in creating unique handcrafted rustic oak chopping boards and other rustic items from reclaimed oak. Based in an old barn in the Blackdown Hills of Somerset, using skilled wood carving and traditional techniques to produce stunning one-of-a-kind pieces perfect for any kitchen or home interior.​

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Ongoing

Penny Price

Penny Price Jewellery is inspired by organic forms in nature, geology and architecture. It is largely form and structure based, minimal and
sculptural. She studied Jewellery Design at Central school of Art in the 70's, and
has subsequently worked as an independent designer/craftsman since.
 

Ongoing

Holly Freemantle

Wellington based resin artist Holly creates ocean inspired artworks, homewares and gifts. Originally a designer, Holly has blended her creativity and craftsmanship with her passion for the sea to create individual seascapes with distinctive resin waves. Each sale supports The Wave Project to improve mental health.

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Ongoing

Beth French

Beth creates amazing saggar fired sculptures in her electric kiln. Her work explores empowerment and self reflection of a woman’s body and our relationship to our own image through different stages of life, both realistic and abstracted. She is also exhibiting some gorgeous tableware pieces.

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Ongoing

Jenny Sutton Kirby

Jenny is a potter, painter and printmaker. At Talent Gallery, she is exhibiting ceramics in stoneware. She makes and develops her own glazes and creates domestic and decorative ware. Recent work includes a series of ikebana vessels.​

Ongoing

Caroline Insall

Caroline is a ceramicist originally from Poole in Dorset but has lived in Somerset for more than 20 years. She works with stoneware clay, they are thrown, slab-built or sculptured to create functional domestic ware or more decorative items.

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