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Shoppers are being encouraged to buy gifts made by local artists this Christmas.

Devon Artist Network is highlighting the economic, community and environmental benefits of buying handmade gifts locally.

Artists all over Somerset are welcoming visitors into their studios and exhibition spaces. 

Somerset Art Weeks is proving very successful, with more than 300 artists hosting exhibitions and events in loft spaces, garden studios, tithe barns, stables, museums, churches, farms, libraries and a prison.

Artists across Somerset will be responding to the theme of ‘Sanctuary’ for this year’s Somerset Art Weeks.

More than 300 artists will be hosting exhibitions and events in over 100 venues, including loft spaces, tithe barns, stables, museums, churches, farms, libraries and a prison.

An artist aims to open up the conversation about mental health with his first solo exhibition.

The adversity of lockdown has sparked even more creativity for Exeter-based artist Veronica Gosling.

A new film-poem created during a live night-time collaboration by five poets will be premiered on Friday 10 July. Night & Refuge creatively documents the process of writing together online during lockdown, and ends with a reading of the new poem.

People from across the country will be contributing to a Quarantine Quilt. The Quilt will be created as part of a project by Devon-based organisation Significant Seams.

Artist David Mach is appealing for broken pieces of pottery with a story behind them. He is asking people to send the fragments to help create a new artwork for St Austell, Cornwall.

People in Chelston, Torquay have been making willow sculptures to decorate their gardens during lockdown. The idea began when a community project to create willow sculptures for the local parks was put on hold.