West Ox Arts Gallery, for Artweeks 2023, showcases a variety of work across the visual arts with the extended exhibition running from Saturday 29 April to Sunday 3 June 2023.

Our 11 exhibiting artists for this years' Artweeks include expressive and traditional oil painting; textile art focusing on texture, colour and visual design; watercolours inspired by wildlife ; stained glass created as a response to the poetry of TS Eliot; mixed media pieces focused on bringing the outdoors inside and a celebration of reinvention, bringing beauty back to worn fragments from the past.

​More About The Artweeks Exhibition 

HIGH QUALITY ABSTRACT AND LANDSCAPE PAINTING

CERAMICS

TEXTILES

GLASS

UPCYCLING

With first time exhibitors and seasoned pros we look forward to welcoming our artists and visitors alike as we celebrate and showcase art in Oxfordshire. A little more about our artists.

Sonja Coles | lives in Oxfordshire | interested in human nature and the natural world | fascinated by corvids, much maligned but very intelligent birds

Marjolein Trawavas | Upcycles everything from teapots to vintage books | repurposes | makes things beautiful again

Will Lusty | Studied in Northumbria and Tokyo | Interested in the symbols humans have used over millenia

Rachel Payne | graduated from Norwich University | has a career focusing on how humans learn through and with art, crafts and design; runs the MA Artist Teacher Practice at Oxford Brookes University | paints landscapes and more recently natural forms

Lynn Edward | an artist with a foot in two countries; England & Africa | lives in Bibury | paints mainly in watercolours and oils

Lindsay Viner | based in Oxfordshire | self taught with a background in textiles | has worked as a workshop leader for over 10 years

Kay Gibbons | an artistic journey that has been one of 'ebb and flow' responding to and determined by the directional pull of circumstance and opportunity | focusing on her response to lunar imagery inspired by TS Eliot's poetry

Janice Giffen | painting for the past 15 years mainly in oils | her latest work focuses views from the Cotswolds the Wessex Downs & the Black Mountains | she uses oil glazes inspired by Japanese lacquerware

Edward Moss | has a passion for wildlife and comes from a family of watercolour artists | he studied golden eagles for six years in Northern Sweden |

Denny Webb | contemporary painter working in watercolour, mixed media & acrylics |has worked and studied in the USA | has a dedicated studio space in Ipsden where she holds private watercolour courses

Helen MacRitchie | textile artist focusing upon the detail found in nature and science | lived and worked for many years in Australia | bases work on wet felted wool adding other elements to create layered textural surfaces

West Ox Arts Oxfordshire Artweeks 2023 ​FLIP BOOK 

Click on the names below to see further images and information on our artists taking part for this years' Artweeks;

Sonja Coles  |  ​Marjolein Trewavas  |  Will Lusty
Rachel Payne  |  Lynn Edward  |  Lindsay Viner
​Kay Gibbons  |  Janice Giffen  |  Edward Moss
​Denny Webb  ​|  Helen MacRitchie
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Our artists will be in the Gallery at various times across the month giving you an opportunity to find out more about their work - do get in contact for times.

 North and West Oxfordshire dates - 13 - 21 May to visit other artists in Bampton and also in the surrounding areas of South Oxfordshire (6 - 14 May)  and Oxford (20 - 29 May)  exhibiting as part of Artweeks 2023.

We are proud of our inclusive open membership which gives everyone whatever their art, craft, skill level or interest, the opportunity to participate in the visual arts from West Oxfordshire and the surrounding counties.