NOT yet sampled Somerset Art Weeks 2013? With the countywide festival coming to a close, County Gazette readers don’t have long left to see what their local artists are up to.

More than 100 impromptu venues – open houses, studios, schools, colleges, shops, and established small gallery spaces – have hosted around 400 artists’ work across Somerset.

By bridging the gap between the art world and ‘the market’, the not-for-profit festival generates around £¼m in private sales for the artists taking part with an enticing blend of projects and curated shows.

On Taunton Deane turf, mixed media artist Lucy Lean is one of four art-makers based at Summer Court in West Monkton, her work inspired by organic forms, manipulating and layering fabrics and oil paintings.

Alongside her pieces are works by driftwood sculptress Emma Duke, who gathers her materials from the West Somerset shoreline.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge is alive and well in a fresh show from Diane Burnell at King’s College on Taunton’s South Road, and she’s joined by grime artist and recent SCAT graduate Georgina Conroy, making detritus beautiful.

In Watchet, Contains Art’s converted shipping containers are occupied by beautiful works from seven local artists, exhibiting rich texture, hand-prints, digi-art and other things besides on the harbourside.

This Saturday, art lovers are invited on a 2pm wander with Lyn Mowat around Westcott Farm’s magical landscape in Brompton Ralph – book on 01984-623274.

On Sunday, “art spider” Leah Hislop will share her thinking behind her commission for the Abundance Garden Trail project at Aller Farmhouse, near Williton, from noon to 2pm.

These mentions just scratch the surface of the Somerset offering, of course – for the full list of Taunton Deane and West Somerset venues, plus opening times, visit www.somersetartworks.org.uk Somerset Art Weeks Festival 2013 ends this Sunday, October 6.