Wiveliscombe businesses are getting right behind the 10 Parishes Festival that starts next Saturday, with community and arts events happening everywhere from brewery to café to pub, and local shops specially opening as people flock to the town for the Street Market and Carnival on Sunday Sept 8. Hundreds of visitors are also expected to …
Wiveliscombe painter Tess Armitage is having a studio sale this weekend. “All are welcome to this Open Studio and sale of original paintings,” said Tess. “There will be a collection of new work and paintings from previous years. Many paintings are unframed and un mounted at affordable prices. Tea, coffee and homemade cake may be …
Outside, winter may still be lingering but inside, there was a mass of colour on display at the Spring Flower Show at Wellington Junior School. Despite fears that entries would be down this year, Show Secretary Sheena Page said, “Actually, we have had more this year. Some regular entrants who did not show last year …
Wellington photographer Anita Corbin’s contribution to International Women’s Day features on ITV West this evening. Anita has photographed two prominent Somerset women who were the first to achieve a particular milestone in their chosen professions. The two women featured in Anita’s groundbreaking project First Women are Charlotte Budd (above), the first woman to ride in …
Wellington’s community venue on the High Street. Community events and venue space for all! Spring Craft Fair Today, supporting independent crafts people. Buy Mum a real handmade gift, Mother’s Day is only two weeks away now
Ever watched Kirstie’s Homemade Home on TV and thought, that’s great, I’d love to do that, if only I could thread my sewing machine…writes Anne Horner Yes, me too. But don’t despair. Angela Richardson of Wellington has the answer: she is going to be running Know Your Sewing Machine classes. I interviewed Angela in her …
Meet Wellington’s newest and youngest entrepreneurs, Samira Nadim and Olivia Mumford , both 18. Together they’ve formed Follies Vintage Corner and are selling and hiring out elegant clothes of another era from a stall in the new craft market above the Old Sale Rooms. “We’ve been friends since we started at Courtfields School together,” said …
On a weekend when the weather caused everything from flower shows to pig racing to be cancelled actross the district, 30 painters, printers and glass makers doggedly turned out to make the town’s first Art Boot Sale a modest success. “We had to hurriedly re-think our plans to be outdoors in the school playground under …
Wellington painter Fiona Brabyn is one of the first artists in the town to sign up for the Art Boot sale happening on Saturday, July 7th, at the Wellington Junior School playground.
“I know there have been a couple in Taunton a year or two ago but it’s a really exciting idea,” said Fiona, who paints in a studio behind her home in Jurston Lane.
