Join GoCreate Taunton, as a member for the year you will have presence on our website , a say in future GoCreate projects and the opportunity to access some exciting collaborations within the creative sector. To become a member it will cost as little as £20.00 annually.
To become a corporate member as well as all the above you would also have your logo, links and business information would have presence on both the GoCreate and TauntonLive webites for £100 annually. You would need to provide us with any information you wanted adding such as logo, abit about you and links.
OohLaLa Creative
Having spent many years overseeing shoots for the country’s leading brands at a London advertising agency, Mark Adkins started Oohlala with the aim of bringing the same passion and love of the photographic image to photography across the South West. Based just outside Taunton, they shoot all sorts of things for all sorts of people […]
The Castle Hotel
Dating from the 12th-century, this upmarket hotel and restaurant in an old Norman fortress is in the town centre of Taunton, a minute’s walk from the Museum of Somerset and 13 minutes’ walk from the station. Modern rooms are individually decorated and all have en suite bathrooms, TVs and free WiFi, plus tea and coffeemaking […]
Glyder
Since Glyder Ltd was created the company, located in Taunton, has gone from strength to strength, building up an enviable portfolio of clients. Run by husband and wife team Tim and Bethan Baigent, Glyder’s strategy is to develop strong, personal working relationships with its clients. You can be assured that projects will be completed to the highest […]
Jon Rata
JP Rata Ltd is an accountancy firm that specialises in offering clients a full outsourced finance function, from processing your bookkeeping to advising you on strategic and tax decisions. We work with people who want to understand their accounts and use that knowledge to improve their business. We do this by meeting with clients throughout the year, producing […]
Mark Adkins
Having spent many years as the Creative Director of a London ad agency, creating and overseeing work for the country’s best known brands, Mark settled full-time in Somerset in 2008 and started Oohlala Creative. Based near Taunton, Oohlala is intentionally a small operation with the freedom to exploit different disciplines including photography and design. Whatever […]
Vienna Ashley-Watts
Vienna Ashley-Watts Vienna is a BLM activist and Co-Founder of BLM Taunton with a background in Youth and Support work. She moved to Taunton when she was in primary school and enjoyed performing arts, specifically theatre and acting. She was involved in many multi-cultural projects due to her mother being prominent within the race equality sector in Taunton. She […]
Tim Baigent
Tim is the creative director of small graphic design firm Glyder, which he runs with his wife Bethan. Tim graduated from the London College of Communication in 1992 with a degree in graphic design and continued to work in London throughout the 1990s – before finally moving back to Taunton to set up Glyder. Owning […]
Jackie Clementine
Jackie Clementines is a performance artist, workshop facilitator, fire choreographer, youth worker, writer, activist and clown. In his time off he is just a clown! He says: “when I grow up I want to be an actor, playing a clown, impersonating a talented performance artisté!” He has toured circus, theatre and poetry shows across numerous […]
James Eastwell
Graduating with a degree in Fine Art specialising in Sculpture, Installation and Printmaking Jim’s main job is as an Attachment and Trauma specialist within a local SEMH provision. Jim welcomes any local teachers who want to do collaborative work to get in touch. Jim also acts as GoCreate’s Child Protection and Safeguarding advisor and consultant. […]
Janet Glynn Smith
Janet Glynn Smith. MA. Fine Artist, practitioner and teacher. BA. WEST SURREY COLLEGE OF ART. MA. University of Keele. PGCE. UNIVERSITY of Leeds. Experienced teacher of A level, Art Foundation, Degree level and mentor to PGCE students at MMU. Lecturer, History of Art and Architecture, Manchester University. Project leader, Comenius cultural exchanges, Spain. Moved to […]
Adam R Grose
Adam Grose uses drawing, painting and printmaking to explore landscapes, walking, mapping, non-perspective visual art and Zen painting practices. He sources natural and industrial pigments, combining and developing alternative ways of recording a journey, transforming landscape through layering rock, soil and mineral pigments to create a visual language for time, memory and aesthetics. He has […]
Richard Holt
Richard is director of the Creative Innovation Centre CIC and Core Business Design in Taunton, Somerset which supports and promotes the development of the creative sector locally . www.creativeinnovationcentre.co.uk/ Richard is a Fellow of Creative Enterprise through the Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Plymouth University and a Fellow of the Royal Society […]
Liz Hutchin
Having taught for over 30 years in Primary Schools including East and South-east London, Liz established Busylizzie Art & Literacy Ltd, in November 2013 as a way of further developing the passion for art, presentation, creativity and design that had been bubbling inside all that time! Busylizzie Art is about bespoke and personal, from consultation […]
Jenny Keogh
Jenny is the CEO of GoCreate Taunton, as well as being a local artist who also curates a pop-up-gallery for local artists. Jenny combines this with her day job as a mental health support worker and several voluntary posts. These include facilitating Art reparation for Young Offenders, supporting a well-being clinic in a local school […]
Andy Knutt
Andy Knutt Having spent over two decades in the creative industries, Andrew is creative on many levels. He is a digital artist but also a designer, web developer, media maker and everything in between. Andrew has a strong business and creative sector background working on many projects. Some small based community ones to multi-million-pound ones. […]
Fran Pitt
A varied career involving map-drawing for military history publications, writing and editing was put on hold whilst caring for my sick husband. During this time I studied at Exeter University for a BA, then MA, taking 1st with honours in Medieval Studies.Currently I continue to research, write and edit: I’m editor in chief of Corridors, […]
Norman Steel
A career in Military Intelligence (I know, I know,) was followed by 15 years as a parish priest. Late onset epilepsy meant early retirement in 2002 and I now spend my time being a house husband, a carer for my autistic son and an artist. I like to draw people and can occasionally be […]
Debbi Sutton
Debbi Sutton’s artwork sits quietly, showing the viewer a different perspective of the magnificent trees and sky at Little Yarford Farmhouse. Sutton says, “The mirror is simply present. The reflection is just there. I invite the viewer to meet the world anew.” Debbi creates site-specific installations, sculpture and writing; recording history; remnants and traces; presence […]
John Stuart
Chairman of Fire River Poets (www.fireriverpoets.org.uk) John is retired after 30 years with City and Guilds, the vocational awarding body, and prior to that the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Commercial Education Scheme, as it then was. As well as chairing Fire River Poets, John organises the poetry events now running at the Creative […]