Future Exhibitions

October Exhibition

ECHOES OF STONE

2 - 24 October 2010

Open: Tuesday to Saturday 10.30am to 4.30pm. Sunday 2.30 to 4.30pm

This exhibition is about the human encounter with the built environment. Emmie van Biervliet travels to diverse cultures around the world and records in her mixed-media paintings the colourful ambience of crumbling Cuban buildings or the sensory kaleidoscope of India. Helen Colling's mysterious multilayered images of shadowy figures standing in the streets of European cities. These printed textile collages explore the transitory nature of the human presence in the city.

Katherine Shock is inspired by the beauty of cities like Paris and Oxford; she captures the evocative qualities of light on mellow coloured stone, the narrow alleys and the magnificent set-pieces of architecture. Nicola Jenkin also paints the iconic buildings of Oxford and the surrounding area using oil, watercolour and mixed media. Mary Robinson’s photographs focus on abandoned interiors and the simultaneous sense of presence and absence in empty buildings.

Kerry von Zschock’s new range of hand painted pottery features architectural designs. Sculptor Emma Ablitt carves into stone to reveal figures that express the human feelings that we all share, such as attachment, protection and loss.

Past Exhibitions

2010........Pictures from 2010

August.......THE LONG TRADITION. The Oxford Scribes showing calligraphy in a variety of historical styles.

July............THE SUMMER EXHIBITION. Paintings by Neville Crowson, Patsy Jones, and Dorothy Pavey, photography by Gordon ...................Stokes, pottery by Neil Ions and Robin Walden.

June..........GRACE AND GRIT. Sculpture by Pat Elmore. Engraving, monoprint and woodcut by Barry Cottrell.

May...........WEST OX ARTS PRINTMAKERS. Original prints by twenty-two members of West Ox Arts. Oxfordshire Artweeks.

April...........FABRICATIONS. Textiles and mixed media by seven textile artists.

...................CAROLINE MAAS - LINES IN THE LANDSCAPE. Colour Etchings.

March........OXFORD ART SOCIETY. Spring Exhibition.

February....A SEPARATE REALITY. Sadie Brockbank - sculpture & mixed media, Frans Wesselman - etchings & stained glass, ...................Jennifer Bartlett - collagraphs, Jo Kimpton - oil paintings, Juliet Dyer- sculpture, Graham Mant & Matt Grimmit-pottery

January.....WOOD GREEN SCHOOL. Celebrating the achievments of students from year 7, 8 and 9.

2009

December....CHRISTMAS CRACKERS Crafts by twenty-three West Ox Arts members.

November....ON THE EDGE Ceramics by Rowan Whimster, Crabby Taylor, Malcolm Moor and Harriet Coleridge. Paintings and ......................etchings by Susie Whimster.

......................CONTEMPORARY PRINTS 09. A range of original prints by Nimmi Naidoo, Esther Hepworth and Joan Golby. ......................Exhibition in The Robert Vesey Room.

October........NATURAL ART. Drawings and pastels of animals and birds by Andrew Forkner.

September...THE FOUR SEASONS West Ox Arts Members' exhibition. Work by over seventy members.

August..........REFLECTIONS Witney Buttercross Quilters.

July................PAINT, LIGHT AND FIRE Naomi Rowling & Sally Crockford - paintings, Judie Waldmann & Jemima Alder - .......................photography, Crabby Taylor - ceramics, Wendy Newhofer - glass.

June..............A SENSE OF PLACE Thirteen artists from Oxford and Cherwell College

May...............STILL LIFE Painting by Muriel Mallows, Jane Hope, Chrissie Borland and Neville Crowson. Ceramics by Kerry von .......................Zschock

April ..............SPRING ECLECTIC Fashion garments for couture and film by Mimi Milburn-Foster, photographic portraits and still .......................life by Leonora Saunders, ceramics, wallpaper & textiles by Bridget Saunders, prints by Andrew Macdonald.

March............GLASSWORKS Stained glass panels and glassware by Daniella Wilson-Dunne, Nicola Kantorowicz, Sarianne .......................Durie, Elaine Newson and Ann Arlidge.

February.......THE SCULPTURE SHOW West Ox Arts members' sculpture exhibition.

January.........A FELT SENSE Felt hangings and panels and objects by Hilary Clash, Linda Scurr, Joan Marsh and Ewa Exley. ........................Wooden bowls and platters by Richard Shock.