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.

Inspired by nature and landscapes of Exmoor and the South West, Laura works mainly in pen, but also watercolour and oil, to produce intricate drawings and paintings. She is drawn to capturing light, detail and texture of the landscape, and the organic shapes and individual character of water and trees especially. 

Joanna has been painting and drawing all her life. She sketches outdoors and takes lots of photos of her subject, from which she will turn into acrylic paintings in the comfort of her studio. She is inspired by the natural landscape, the effects of sunlight through foliage, clouds, reflections or movement of water and effects of season and weather. 

Nancy is a mixed media, abstract artist who enjoys combining art with poetry, music and words. Their work is inspired by hope, joy, space to breathe, the seasons, the natural world and the week that was. Nancy's paintings are designed to hang in any orientation and you are encouraged to turn her paintings to appreciate a different perspective.

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.

Inspired by the sea, the movement, surface pattern and colour and the way it interacts with the sky and the coastline, every piece of SilverRipples Jewellery is designed and crafted by Gill's hands in East Devon. Gill uses recycled silver, the pearls and beads are sourced via reputable UK suppliers and makes every effort to minimise her waste and impact on our planet.  

Josh is a potter based in Nynehead, Somerset. He started making his own pottery in 2023 and specialises in stoneware, creating a mix of functional and sculptural pottery which emphasises flowing forms and contemporary designs. Josh’s work experiments with refined, smooth surface textures and ones that show the marks of throwing and turning processes.

Jacqueline creates distinctive glass pendants and wall art inspired by Devon’s wild
moorlands and scenic coastline. Her work captures the region’s shifting atmosphere
and natural beauty through intricate, layered designs that blend timeless craft with a contemporary feel. 

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Rachel’s passion and aspiration is to create striking and original pieces of jewellery. Her colours and forms are fluid, harmonious and above all ergonomic. Playing with colour, as a painter would, Rachel is often knitting with multiple strands, blending from one colour to another, subtly or dramatically. 

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Sally has a degree in Creative Writing and a rich experience of working in textile trades (including working at Fox's mill in Wellington). She designs fabric badges printed with her own photographs - miniature wearable pieces of art! She was awarded a Somerset Art Works Creative Pathways Bursary in 2023.

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Jenny binds the ancient to the modern to allow this connection to expand and develop in a way that uses traditional skills and techniques, creating original contemporary designs within her ceramic practice. She creates her ceramics by using a coil-building method, as opposed to throwing on a potter's wheel and is often inspired by her travels around the world.

Jeannine is a self-taught creative and has worked as a designer and illustrator. She now creates quirky, characterful designs in clay. To sculpt her designs, Jeannine uses hand-building techniques, and then decorates her stoneware with coloured slips, underglazes and oxides.

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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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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.

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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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.
 

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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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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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.​

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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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