Our creative community

Tess' passion is sourcing antique entomology collections of butterflies, moths and beetles, which she restores to create unique artworks, marrying delicate insects with antique objects. Her pieces celebrate the tradition of collecting, reflect on memory and preservation, fragility and time, and are inspired by the fleeting lives of the natural world.
All specimens are strictly non-endangered, ethically and sustainably-sourced.

Eleanor (Ellie) creates bold, fun, statement pieces of wearable art - she loves texture and is inspired by historical jewellery.  She works in precious metals and chooses a huge variety of colourful gems to work around.  She has an online shop and works to commission.

Alison initially trained as a textile designer which influences the colourful and bold abstract paintings she creates now. Works are available on paper, wood panels and canvas.

She has a studio in Chesterblade Hills near Shepton and sells her work both on line and through galleries.

Lorna is a painter. She enjoys both traditional and experimental ways of working so her work is diverse. She describes her work as art emotive, driven by her responses to the world around.  2023 Lorna will be exhibiting in Frome and Bruton art society exhibitions, Wylie Valley Art Trail  and at Ammerdown for their exhibition 'Peace and Reconciliation.' Some of her work is also going on tour into Europe with the exhibition Artists in Dialogue:War Vocabulary. 

Profits from sales go to  humanitarian causes.

Instagram: #lornathomasartworks.  #artists.in.dialogue

Facebook: Lorna T 

Alice Kettle is a contemporary textile/fibre artist who makes huge figurative stitched works. She spends many months making a single stitched hangings using as her subject matter a mix of stories which collide the autobiographical, contemporary events, folklore and mythology. Made with free machine embroidery the needle is like a drawing tool, describing the challenges and ambitions of the human condition.

Josie creates hand crafted jewellery, mindfully designed to help sooth anxiety through the use of grounding textures and tactile movement, with inspiration from ancient jewellery and the ocean. 

 

She has a shop/studio at the Iron Gates in Frome (the old pet shop next to M&S) where she designs, makes and sells all her jewellery.

Tim is a professional Portrait and Landscape Photographer who has captured many of the world’s renowned faces and locations and has worked for the best known magazines and agencies whilst in London. 

His work is in the photography collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Academy and the Victoria & Albert Museum and he has exhibited at the Royal College of Art, Black Swan Arts, the National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Academy.