New Beginnings

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  Megan Tucker is an illustrator based in Loughor. After many years selling artwork in boutique gift shops across Wales, Megan took a career break to raise her little girl. 

She has recently returned to illustration with a new focus on collaged and mixed media artwork, inspired by Welsh landscapes and the natural world.

Visit her Instagram & Etsy page: 

 @megantuckerillustration www.etsy.com/shop/megantuckerillo 

Mags Attwell has a lifelong passion for nature, wellbeing, and the arts. This led her into teaching arts and nature-based learning in primary schools, first in Plymouth and now in Swansea. Over time, her work grew into community-based music-making and creative projects, including lantern parades and an annual world Music Café Night. She loves how arts and nature bring people together, creating joyful, meaningful moments, lasting memories, and a strong sense of belonging. Inspired by nature and faith, her work is gentle yet powerful, nurturing connection and beauty.

Visit Her Website Page: 

 Home - Mags Attwell 

Peter is a ceramicist whose work is rooted in ecology and an enduring curiosity about overlooked natural processes. Trained in tropical ecology with a focus on rainforest fungi, he now draws inspiration from local decomposers on Gower, shaping stoneware forms that echo twigs, branches, and fungal decay. Using earthy glazes and oxides, his work finds beauty in what is usually hidden or ignored an influence traceable to formative visits to the botanical displays at Cardiff Museum. For this exhibition, Pete shifts his focus to the seashore, using shells as a starting point to explore pollution and human impact on coastal environments.

Contact Peter Via Email: 

peterlewis@cinw.org.uk

Chloe is our very own Creative Practitioner at WoW. Chloe is a qualified Arts, Health and Wellbeing practitioner and a collage artist. 

Much of Chloe’s work is inspired by her deep love & connection to the Gower Peninsula and the natural world. This love of Gower comes from her family roots, with generations linked back to Hunts Farm in Pennard. Her collage artworks often evoke landscapes that feel familiar at first glance, but on closer inspection reveal carefully combined elements drawn from different places she is intuitively drawn to. These visual layers are complemented by poetic words, inviting the viewer to pause, reflect, and connect.

Visit Her Instagram Page: 

@itschlothomart

  We all make sense of the world and ourselves in a uniquely personal way. Anne often finds it hard to make sense of the world or herself in ways she can express to herself or others. Art and creativity bridge that gap between sensing something and being able to process it and put it into words. Her materials are primarily handmade papers created by Wild Plant Paper CIC, a Gower social enterprise making paper using plants and other materials from across the Gower. Each has its own story to tell of place, new beginnings and redemption, and its story is as important as its texture and other properties for whether it 'feels' right for a particular purpose within one of Anne's creations. More commercially, Anne sells cards, notebooks and small pictures under the name 'Adfer Creations'. Anne uses the hashtag #NotAnArtist, because she has always created out of a need to make sense of the world to herself, whereas she sees art as a means of gifting insights or pleasure to others. This is the first time she is sharing her work publicly. Her hope is that others will see something of what the Gower means to her, the richness of its textures, colours and Christian heritage - or perhaps see something completely different. For we all see in our own way. 

Visit Her Instagram Page:  

@adfercreations 

  Duncan is an artist based in Rhossili, having retired from the University of Brighton, where he held various roles, including establishing its Centre for Arts and Wellbeing and serving as its first director. Duncan has an international exhibition career spanning more than 30 years and has published writings on his art practice, including a chapter in ‘Drawing in Health and Wellbeing’ (Bloomsbury, 2025). His practice does not make specific references to the natural world but adopts a systematic approach to artmaking, in which drawing lines in organised sequences is a meditative process of making, perceiving and experiencing. He likens this to the constant ebb and flow of the tide and ever-shifting patterns of light.

Visit his instagram: duncanbullenstudio 

& website: www.duncanbullen.com

Jessica has worked for many years as a Conservation Advisor for a water company, collaborating with organisations such as the RSPB, local Wildlife Trusts, and the Hawk and Owl Trust to deliver a wide range of conservation projects. Her role included overseeing the construction of otter holts, installing nest boxes on company sites, creating wetland areas, and coordinating the planting of trees, hedges, and wildflowers, as well as developing access paths. She worked closely with site managers to encourage long‑term maintenance practices that enhanced the conservation value of sites.

After having children, she lectured in Countryside Management and Sustainability and also worked as an Environmental Consultant, supporting the mitigation of engineering projects. Across all of these roles, photographs and displays were routinely required, which led her to develop an interest in wildlife photography. Over time, this interest grew into a deep and lasting passion.

Contact Jessica via email: 

Jess_and_paul@msn.com. 

  Jess is a creative freelancer living in Swansea. She recently graduated from the University of Wales Trinity St David with a Degree and Master's in Graphic Design. Her inspiration is largely drawn from her Christian faith, the natural world and Welsh language and culture. Jess loves experimenting with all art disciplines but has a particular interest in printmaking, collage, and gel printing. 

Visit her Instagram page or contact her via email :

Instagram: @139creative

Email: jess@139creative.com

  Mandy Bayton is a storyteller, speaker, and mentor who writes and speaks about faith and the complexity of being human with honesty and a touch of humour. She connects with those who find themselves questioning easy answers and are perhaps looking for something more authentic.

She speaks in churches and at events across the UK, offering reflections on hope, courage, and justice. Mandy works as Director of Mission in the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon and is involved in pioneering and evangelism across the Church in Wales.

Poetry offers me a language beyond everyday conversation. It’s a way to express what feels otherwise inarticulable. Through it, I share my deepest thoughts, anxieties, hopes and joys.

Contact Mandy Via Email: 

mandybayton@churchinwales.org.uk

  Helen runs the local CIC Gower Unearthed and holds an MA in Literature. She has been writing poetry since she was a little girl, inspired by poets such as R. S. Thomas, Edward Thomas, and other Anglo-Welsh writers, as well as Thomas Hardy and also poets like Phillip Larkin and Shelley.

The poem exhibited here was published by Parthian Press in 2023 as part of an anthology for the Being Human Festival at Swansea University. It was chosen for this exhibition because the anthology, New World, New Beginnings, reflects the theme behind the church display.

The story of Edgar Evans and his family is one Helen has shared many times, particularly with schools. Through it, she explores ideas of resilience, failure, and the importance of smaller achievements along the way. Ultimately, it is a story about the journey itself.

Visit her website page: 

 Gower Unearthed