Turner Prize winner Simon Starling walked away with the coveted 20,000 award for turning a shed into a boat, paddling it seven miles down the Rhine and then turning it back into a shed again. Artist Teresa Wythe has turned a shed into a beach hut that looks like a shed. She has won no glittering prizes for this transformation yet but it may only be a matter of time. Because whereas Starling's Shed Boat Shed is now no more than an expensive art exhibit, a thing of little practical use in which you can't even store a lawnmower, Teresa's beach hut is a very practical object. A thing which, if not blessed with great beauty, has an atmosphere all of its own. Dylan Thomas wrote some of his finest poetry in a wood and asbestos shed in his back garden (if the drink hadn't got him maybe the killer dust would); George Bernard Shaw annexed his wife's summer house for his creative outpourings and turned it into a revolving hut and in the early days of his career as a painter Vincent Van Gogh set up studio in a garden shed in his parents' house in the Netherlands. Sheds have a long and honourable history when it comes to creativity. The hut in Teresa's garden in Ampthill is a hotbed of artistic activity; a veritable mecca for culture vultures. During the week, come rain or shine, daylight or moonglow, Teresa takes herself off into the hut to paint. Like many people who live just about as far inland as you can get in this country, Teresa and her husband Martin, a landscape gardener, love the sea. In particular the Suffolk coast, and, to be more specific, Southwold. Southwold is lovely in a gentle, 1950s sort of way. It's also a desirable retreat for Islington types who want their children to spend the summer months living an Enid Blyton kind of existence. Recently a beach hut in Southwold sold for '45,000. I start to see why Teresa and Martin love the things so much. So it's not surprising to find that Teresa is keen to paint seaside subjects. What comes as more of a revelation are the big, bold African-themed paintings that struggle to find floor space in the hut. Teresa and Martin have been holidaying in West Africa for the last few years and, inspired by their experiences, Teresa has found a colourful, primitive style of painting that is very striking and, to judge by a recent exhibition held locally, very popular. If the sole function of the hut/shed/hut was to act as a studio for Teresa then it would already have more than earned its space in the garden. But on a Tuesday night, come rain or shine, hut studio becomes hut arts centre. Hut life expands to encompass the entire membership of The Ampthill Bike Club, all four of them. They cycle the green paths around and about then retreat to the cosy dimensions of the beach hut for a bottle of wine, poetry readings, music and some lively cultural debate. Could this be an idea for a new late night BBC 2 arts review programme? Good evening and welcome to a new series of Shed Talk? It could be a winner. Come to think of it, it might even be the next Turner Prize winner.