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.

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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11 April 2025 - 9 May 2025

Chris Howe

Chris works mainly in watercolours and uses a limited palette to produce paintings which appear fresh and vibrant. His main inspiration comes from the countryside around his home on Exmoor.

He has trained and exhibited successfully in the South West where his paintings have gained an enthusiastic following.

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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21 March 2025 - 25 April 2025

Carla Jennings

Carla creates calm and intriguing abstract botanical art reflecting two adjacent worlds in nature - peaceful, wide open spaces and captivating details. She uses a mix of media to create unplanned marks and uses a limited palette of fresh, delicate colours to form a soothing harmony that reflects the natural world. Many pieces include hand printed collage papers using fresh foliage.

21 March 2025 - 2 May 2025

Lizzie Mee

Lizzie responds to changing colours in sunlight and her prints often reflect her daily walks in the countryside. She started printmaking about 20 years ago and now uses the reduction method to create layered and (often brightly) coloured artworks to represent the experience of being in rural places. Her works are often meditations on the living landscape she knows well, including animals, flora and fauna.

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

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.​

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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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