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.

3 October - 14 November 2025

Claire Western

All of Claire’s work begins and is inspired by her love of the sea, walking the South West coast path and sailing off the coasts of Devon and Cornwall. Claire’s aim is to make paintings which are physically exciting with a vast range of materials and techniques. She is constantly searching for new ways of expressing her passion for the natural environment.

3 October - 14 November 2025

Jenny Graham

Jenny works in a variety of different media: oil, watercolour, printmaking and gouache gives her the opportunity to explore various ways of interpreting a particular environment. She primarily works in a semi-realistic way, but sometimes stray into abstraction, although always informed by the landscape.

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10 October - 14 November 2025

Nick Strivens

Nick is a self-taught artist, working predominantly in oils. He currently lives on the edge of Exmoor having retired after working in the Metropolitan Police for 30 years. His style is difficult to label, often jumping from an impressionistic work into abstract. Atmosphere and movement are everything; he hopes to create work that the viewer feels part of.

19 September - 31 October 2025

Gail Morris

Gail grew up on the fabulous West Coast and far North of Scotland, moving later to the beautiful West Country. She has been a full-time artist since 2011, and you will find Gail painting her popular seascapes and landscapes from her studio in Somerset. Being by the sea all of her life has been a crucial part of her artistic journey.

29 August 2025 - 10 October 2025

Tracy Abraham

Tracy is a self-taught artist that re-discovered her dormant hobby during lockdown. Since then, art has become a massive and extremely joyful part of their life. She has always been drawn to animal art but living in such a beautiful and diverse county, Tracy is trying to bring more landscapes and different mediums into her ever-growing collection of art.

22 August 2025 - 3 October 2025

Tomomi Iwatake

Tomomi is a landscape and portrait artist based in Somerset. They take a lot of photographs outdoors and turn them into oil paintings. Tomomi respects the planet we live on and loves to share the beauty of nature. Their work captures the details of elementals on the planets, aiming to connect our planet’s love with people.

22 August 2025 - 3 October 2025

David Andrews

David works in pen and ink with watercolour wash. His unique style incorporates words and text which brings an element of humour and meaning to my pieces. He is intrigued by the concept of time, how it's structure remains the same but how everything around us changes with the seasons… birth, life, death and rebirth. 

Ongoing

Joshua Jolliff

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.

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

Jacqueline Seviour

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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Ongoing

Rachel Reilly

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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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

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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