Jenny Penney Artist
Jenny Penney
Local Makers Shop & Gallery
Venue: Mangerton Mill, Mangerton, Bridport DT6 3SG
OPEN : Wednesday - Saturday; 10am - 4 pm
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This was an entirely new venture for me in 2025. As the year progressed I welcomed a fabulous variety of new artwork and crafts to the walls with monthly guest artists and to the shelves with stained, fused and strawsilk glass adding beautiful colour and light to the shop. With a number of ceramicists here there is a wonderful span of pottery styles on offer : Raku, stoneware and porcelain in bowls and mugs and even sculpture and garden chimes! All the work on offer is a result of local artists making hand made items each with a complete uniqueness that with some work, can only be found here at this gallery. Added to the above this includes: metalwork, bronze, silver and anodized aluminium jewellery. In addition, two authors have produced books. The first is an historical writer set in Dorset during the 1600's and the second has produced a delicate collection of really beautiful watercolours of the Dorset Coast;
My aim is to create a shop/gallery with a well varied display of unusual and attractive, well made and affordable gifts made by our many local talented artists. So far this is looking promising. I have had many favourable comments about the fabulous space and unusual and beautiful artworks for sale here. I have had a great first year here and I am looking forward to some fabulous new artwork and crafts on show in 2026.
Let me introduce you to what we have on offer.
David Brooke attended an Art Foundation Course at Yeovil School of Art and a BA Graphic Design Course at Hull College of Art. He is a Past President of the Society of Graphic Fine Art. Also He is a member, and regularly exhibits with, the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts, the National Acrylic Painters’ Association, the Society for Art of the Imagination and the Bath Society of Artists. For 3 years David was the Arts and Administration Manager of the Yeovil Arts Centre, and for 4 years afterwards he was employed by the Octagon Theatre, Yeovil, as their Visual Arts Co-ordinator. He is currently a full time artist living in Bridport, Dorset.
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RELIEF SCULPTED LANDSCAPES
Jenny Penney: You will have seen some of my work here on my site. Please come and see it "in the flesh" at Mangerton Mill (Wednesday - Saturday). You cannot get the perspective of the works until you do so!
ANIMAL POTTERY
Hilary Bradt sculpts small animal and dishes in ceramics. She uses a whole range of hand sculpting techniques, as she does here with her adorable "Time for a hair cut" sculpture of a dog.
INK PENS AND SOFT PASTELS
Jenny Penney starts off her Relief Sculpted with a drawing on site. Here you can see that she didn't have to go far for her image! She is presently working on the Relief Sculpted Landscape picture of Mangerton Mill
JAYNE BURTON
Jayne Burton is a textile designer working from her small studio in Dorset, with a passion for fabrics both vintage and new. She is particularly interested in producing designs using Cyanotypes, Indian wooden blocks, dyes and paint to design, print and produce textiles and papers. Her main love is the natural world where she enjoys being surrounded by nature, especially sitting by the sea at dawn which inspires her textile design.
NEOLITHIC INSPIRED CERAMICS IN STONEWARE AND RAKU FIRED
HENS AT MANGERTON MILL
Bill Crumbleholme is renowned for his style of contemporary stoneware which is inspired by ancient pottery; Neolithic bowls, Bronze Age urns & beakers, Iron Age & Roman jars & bowls inform the designs, with surfaces decorated by impressing tools such as combs, bones or sticks into the clay to form repeating patterns. Bill is a pyromaniac who really enjoys heating clay and glazes in many different ways to see what happens. He uses a variety of techniques each giving unique properties to the finished pots including wood-firing, raku and pit firing. Bill has a passion for ancient pottery and as a member of the Ancient Wessex Network, undertakes experimental archaeology and works with museums and archaeologists exploring pre-historic techniques. He has demonstrated his skills on the BBC 2 series Digging for Britain in 2025. Bill was instrumental in the creation of this collective of potters who have grown from his class students to a group of individual artists sharing their love of ceramics, resources and knowledge. More information and an archive of Bill's work can be seen at: www.beakerfolk.co.uk
WILDLIFE POTTERY
Penny Ireland is a character sculptor of wildlife. She creates a whole range of "Tableware animals" such as the : pine martin, Tawny Owl and here a Koala.
STAINED AND FUSED GLASS
Based in Dorset, Gillian McCormick creates incredible stained glass pieces of birds and animals of the UK. She also makes very collectable fused glass birds on wood. Every piece is stunning positioned in front of light, both artificial and natural.
CONTEMPORARY ALLUMINUM JEWELLERY
Caroline Parrott works in aluminium and anodizes and shapes the material into light weight, attractive pieces of unique jewellery that can be worn for any occasion.
METAL WORK GARDEN FLOWERS
John Rigby's metalwork garden structure are created with love and labour. He uses both stainless steel and mild steel to create flowers on stalks "that will rust and create a contrast in colour and texture". Each flower can then be planted in your garden, without worry about feeding or blight!
WATERCOLOUR PAINTER
Lisa Layton is a sketcher of the DORSET COAST, except she uses watercolours to sketch with. Her new book is a beautiful illustrative journey of memorable coastal locations that we all love and are wowed along Dorset's fabulous coastline.
PORCELAIN AND RAKU POTTERY
Naya works mainly in porcelain creating beautiful sculpted seed heads, jelly fish and planters for your garden. She also makes very slim vases and bud pots, imprinting them with grasses and flowerheads that she grows in her garden and fossils that she collects on the seashore near her home in Dorset.
HISTORICAL AUTHOR
Georgia Piggott is a local author who specialises in historical mystery novels . She sets her scene in a local fictional village of Dorset during the 17th century. Georgia has published 4 books in the series : Just Causes, A Hazardous Game, Stolen Lives and Linenfold. She is now working on her 5th novel in this series.
JAPANESE GLASSWORK
Strawsilk Art : Intensely colourful and beautifully designed glassware is made by hand by Tim Lees using natural strawsilk paper. Each piece is unique and produced in a variety of forms. and very affordable. Since last year he has added the Seahorse design.
BRONZE JEWELLERY
Mark Vyvyan-Penney is an experimental archaeologist who recreates jewellery in the style of found objects, jewellery and larger items of the Bronze Age. He presently runs the Dorset Craft Workshops in Durngate St, Dorchester
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