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.

27 September 2024 - 8 November 2024

Karen Paxton

Karen is a Somerset-based artist who's journey began in graphic design. Her work evolves through experimentation and exploration, manifesting in various formats and mediums, including oils, acrylics, watercolours, and mixed media. Her love for nature, psychology, and vintage artifacts provides a rich tapestry of inspiration for her art.

13 September 2024 - 11 October 2024

Georgia Morley

Painting wild seas and remote landscapes, Georgia is an abstract artist inspired by her travels. She explores natural pigments across the world, using non-toxic mediums to paint with. Graduating from Falmouth University, her inspiration is also from the Cornish coastline, soft blues and turquoises playing a strong role in her work.​​

13 September 2024 - 11 October 2024

Lesa Morley

Lesa Morley’s love for animals started from a very young age. With no formal training, but with a huge passion for art, her talent for capturing animals on paper developed later in life. Creating portraits from within her home studio, she finds producing the images of her client’s special pets so rewarding.​

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6 September 2024 - 6 November 2024

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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6 September 2024 - 6 November 2024

Lynne Mackay

Lynne has always had a huge passion for natural beauty, from spotting wildlife to making mud pies and daisy chains. She has also been an art teacher for the past 20 years. Her paintings are inspired by the surrounding landscape, local flora and fauna, the Somerset Levels, Cornish seascapes and the mountains.

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16 August - 18 October 2024

Claire Western

Claire is a well-established artist whose work is shown and sold widely throughout the South West. The distinctive nature of her work lies in her enthusiasm for experimentation and exploration of the expressive possibilities of combining unusual mixed-media materials and methods.

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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

Duncan Forbes

Duncan began wood-turning in 2021. His work is inspired by simplicity of shape, the flowing shapes of oriental ceramics, classic mid-century designs and multi axis turning. He is currently experimenting with the combination of these flowing forms, accented with segmentation and veneers.​​

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.

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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