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.

13 June 2025 - 17 July 2025

Lucy Rodgers

Lucy is joining us as part of our Summer Exhibition 2025. Lucy is a Somerset based printmaker making colour reduction lino prints in her home studio. She has been creating work since graduating back in the early 90s. Lucy is currently focusing on still life compositions using reduction lino printing and enjoying the technical challenges and delight that this process can bring.

13 June 2025 - 17 July 2025

Joanna Commings

Joanna is joining us as part of our Summer Exhibition 2025. 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. 

13 June 2025 - 17 July 2025

Alex Williams

Alexandra is joining us as part of our Summer Exhibition 2025. She loves bold colour and pattern and her prints and paintings are rooted in her sketchbook practice and drawing from life. She is inspired by richly decorated, historical ceramics, architecture and bright florals and often uses still life compositions in her work. 

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13 June 2025 - 17 July 2025

Alexandra Lavizzari

Alexandra is joining us as part of our Summer Exhibition 2025. Painting for Alexandra an experiment, a challenge and a journey into the unknown. She works mostly with soft pastels, oil and acrylics, but is always open to trying out new techniques and using new materials, which means that over the years she has developed different styles.

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13 June 2025 - 17 July 2025

Katherine Creasey

Katherine is joining us as part of our Summer Exhibition 2025. Originally from Cornwall, Katherine has lived in Somerset for over 20 years. She studied Art at Foundation Level and currently volunteers for local Arts Charities. Her inspiration is the natural world and she paints predominantly in oils.

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13 June 2025 - 17 July 2025

Nicky Farrell

Nicky is joining us as part of our Summer Exhibition 2025. In her artwork, she calls on her two main interests - nature, specifically birds and animals and her love of Japan, and works mainly in pastels, watercolour, ink and glass. As well as more traditional paintings, Nicky creates glass paintings and stained glass items.
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13 June 2025 - 17 July 2025

Steve Hall

Steve is joining us as part of our Summer Exhibition 2025. He is a self-taught artist with the foundation of a career in design as a commercial artist. Working in watercolour or acrylics, each piece is seen as a personal learning experience, and also hopefully contributes to improve collective visual language.
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16 May 2025 - 13 June 2025

Lisa Benson

Lisa is primarily a linocut artist with a love of landscape, particularly trees. Fascinated by the inherent magic within nature, Lisa seeks to capture the feeling of being connected to a time and a place so that we can carry it with us as we navigate life. A print will often start with a photograph Lisa has taken in a moment she has experienced. 

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9 May 2025 - 13 June 2025

Aziz Khan

Aziz graduated with a degree in Graphic Illustration and Design and built his career in London; working with renowned publishing houses. He has recently relocated to Devon and focuses on commissioned work. Natural history is at the heart of the work, with a deep passion for East African wildlife. Aziz primarily paints using acrylics but also explores pen and ink, watercolour and oils.

2 May 2025 - 13 June 2025

Mark Huntley

Mark is a self taught pastel artist. His home of Axminster and the surrounding areas brings countless opportunities and inspiration for Mark’s detailed pastel landscapes and seascapes. Since 2020, he took his passion to the next level and became a professional artist and won the Gold UK Artists Award in 2021 and has reached the international finals for the Art Unlimited awards for consecutive years.

25 April 2025 - 16 May 2025

Jenny Sutton Kirby

Jenny’s paintings are mostly still life. They show her obsession with the natural world combined with the graphic dynamism of gingham tablecloths and the humble tea cloth’s traditional stripes. She works mostly in acrylics and uses a strong colour for her ground, building the image over this and enjoying the places where the colour shows through. 

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4 April 2025 - 16 May 2025

Ruth Lowe

Ruth has been an artist for over 30 years, working primarily in watercolours but also in soft pastels, acrylic and graphite.

She loves to portray all aspects of nature, especially trees and animals. Living in Exmoor, Ruth is inspired by her local surroundings and this comes out in her art work.

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Ongoing

Sally Light

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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Ongoing

Jenny Hicks

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.

Ongoing

Jeannine Rundle

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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Ongoing

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.

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.​

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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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