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Designers Guild is proud to support Oxfordshire Artweeks Available throughout Oxfordshire including The Curtain Shop 01865 553405 Anne Haimes Interiors 01491 411424 Stella Mannering & Company 01993 870599 Griffi n Interiors 01235 847135 Lucy Harrison Fabric | Wallpaper | Paint | Furniture | Accessories Interiors www.artweeks.org 07791 248339 Fairfax Interiors designersguild.com FREE FESTIVAL GUIDE 01608 685301 & ARTIST DIRECTORY Fresh Works Paintings by Elaine Kazimierzcuk 7 - 30 May 2020 The North Wall, South Parade, Oxford OX2 7JN St Edward’s School is the principal sponsor of The North Wall’s innovative public programme of theatre, 4 Oxfordshire Artweeks music, art exhibitions,www.artweeks.org dance and talks.1 THANKS WELCOME Oxfordshire Artweeks 2020 Artweeks is a not-for-profit organisation and relies upon the generous Welcome to the 38th Oxfordshire Artweeks festival during support of many people to whom we’re most grateful as we bring this which you can see, for free, amazing art in hundreds of celebration of the visual arts to you. These include: from Oxfordshire Artweeks 2020 Oxfordshire from wonderful places, in artists’ homes and studios, along village trails and city streets, in galleries and gardens Patrons: Will Gompertz, Mark Haddon, Janina Ramirez across the county. It is your chance, whether a seasoned Artweeks 2020 to Oxfordshire art enthusiast or an interested newcomer, to enjoy art in Board members: Anna Dillon, Caroline Harben, Kate Hipkiss, Wendy a relaxed way, to meet the makers and see their creative Newhofer, Hannah Newton (Chair), Sue Side, Jane Strother and Robin talent in action. Wilson. Within these pages you will find a variety of types Volunteer area coordinators: Wendy Clifford, Phillip Dove, Rachel of exhibitions: some artists team up to host group Ducker, Pam Fyvie, Charlotte Houlihan, Jo Lilywhite, Rahima Kenner, Jaine shows while others open their studios (look for the OS McCormack, Susan Moxley, Marieke O’Connor, Melissa Orrom-Swan, Tara throughout this guide) and welcome you in to both enjoy Parker-Woolway, Graham Perryman, Yvette Phillips, Francesca Shakespeare, their work and to chat about their materials and methods. Jill Smith, Dougie Simpson, Pip Stacey, Jane Tomlinson, Andrew Wildman, & At most venues you can meet the artist – if you are keen Helen White. to see a particular talent, please call ahead to be sure – and at others there are a variety of demonstrations (look And all those other individuals and collaborating organisations who have for the D throughout this guide). helped make Artweeks a success including Janet Brown, Jill Colchester, David Cotterell, Designers Guild, Stuart Lafferty, Jill Rayner, Alun Ward, Browse the listings and the accompanying website Appleton Christmas Barn, Cornerstone Arts Centre, Experience Oxfordshire, where you’ll find hundreds of examples of artists’ work, Eye Division, OX magazine, Oxfordshire Library Service, The Jam Factory, The and pick the exhibitions that most appeal to you: from Mill Banbury, The North Wall, The Oxford Times, The Oxfordshire Museum the traditional to the contemporary, and with drawing to and many others. printmaking, furniture to fashion, silverware, sculpture, mosaics and more, there’s masses to explore. We hope Di Gold, listing 250 you enjoy exploring Artweeks, and that you are inspired Our cover this year uses an image by the pieces on show and find some treasures to take taken by photographer Ian Bailey (listing home with you. 293) who is exhibiting at Luxury in The Cotswolds with thirteen other artists. If you would like to hear from us with our suggestions With a passion for the outdoors, and about where to find interesting art locally and what’s on an endless appreciation for fine art, To participate in throughout the year, you can sign up for our monthly Ian enjoys photographing the world Artweeks 2021 newsletter at www.artweeks.org/newsletter around him. With a previous focus on (1-23 May) please the landscape, he has recently become register by fascinated by the amazing and complex 31 Esther Lafferty Festival Director beauty and structure of flowers. His December 2020. Jo Salmon Administrator exhibition captures and enriches the Oxfordshire Artweeks, 8 Hazel Road, Oxford OX2 9LF intimate details that embody the fabric For more about taking 01865 865596 of even the most common varieties. part, see page 118. [email protected] @OxonArtweeks OxfordshireArtweeks 2 Oxfordshire Artweeks www.artweeks.org 3 OXFORDSHIRE ART AND CRAFT ORGANISATIONS OXFORDSHIRE ART CONTENTS The Oxford Art Society was founded in 1891 and is an umbrella for accomplished artists with diverse and exciting styles living in Key to abbreviations Artweeks Mary Moser Award Winner 2020 9 Oxfordshire, many of whom also exhibit nationally or internationally. We hold regular exhibitions, and welcome submissions towards South Oxfordshire: Sat 2 - Sun 10 May 19 membership at our annual Open Exhibition. Look for the initials OAS Wheelchair access W Thame to Wheatley & villages 20 in this guide to find members’ work. For more information visit Open Studio OS Abingdon & villages 23 www.oxfordartsociety.co.uk Didcot & The Wittenhams to Nuneham Courtenay 29 Demonstrations D Watlington 31 Refreshments R Henley-on-Thames 40 The Oxfordshire Craft Guild draws together designer-makers representing a wide range of traditional and contemporary crafts, and Teacher T Wallingford & Brightwell-cum-Sotwell 42 The Ridgeway: Goring-on-Thames to Wantage 43 holds temporary and permanent exhibitions throughout the county. Parking P Membership, which is by selection, is a sign of the finest design Faringdon & villages 50 Non-selling NS ability and highest quality craftsmanship. Look out for the initials OCG in this guide to find Guild Members’ work. For further information go North & West Oxfordshire: Sat 9 – Sun 17 May 55 to www.ocg.co.uk or Bampton, Burford & Witney 56 www.facebook.com/oxfordshirecraftguild. Charlbury 61 Oxford Art Society OAS Chipping Norton & villages 66 Oxfordshire Craft Guild OCG Banbury & villages 75 West Ox Arts is a lively association of artists and art enthusiasts, Bicester & villages 79 many of whom take part in exhibitions alongside artists invited from Oxford Etsy Team OET Woodstock, Kidlington & Eynsham 80 across the UK. Our Gallery is an inspiring, light-filled venue that sells Oxford Printmakers Co-op OPC a wide range of contemporary, high quality art and offers various workshops, demonstrations and special events throughout the year. West Oxfordshire Arts WOA Oxford City: Sat 16 – Sun 25 May 85 We are situated in the first floor of Bampton’s Town Hall in the Market Botley and West Oxford 86 Square. For more information or to become a member of WOA visit South Oxford 89 www.westoxarts.com. You can also find us on facebook at Iffley and Cowley 92 www.facebook.com/westoxarts Headington 94 East Oxford 96 Oxford Printmakers Co-operative (OPC) has been running for over Jericho 102 Summertown 107 40 years and is an open access Fine Art Print workshop offering a Wolvercote & Wytham 113 high standard of printmaking facilities. It currently has 100 members many of whom are professional artists exhibiting in the UK and Call out for artists for 2021 118 abroad. As well as holding regular exhibitions, OPC runs courses Index of artists 120 in many of the print processes: such as linocut & woodcut, wood Index of galleries and large engraving, etching, monoprinting, screenprinting, collagraphy and group exhibitions 127 stone lithography. These courses are open to anyone with an interest in printmaking. OPC also offers different membership options for accessing workshop facilities and equipment, and new members Although the majority of venues in each Artweeks area are always welcome. Look for the initials OPC in this guide to find open only during their regional dates, you’ll find some members work. For more information go to: artists exhibiting for a longer period of time. Browse the listings to take advantage of these additional days or www.oxfordprintmakers.co.uk use our search facility at artweeks.org/festival/search The Oxford Etsy Team is a collective of local Etsy sellers in and Cloelea Jewellery listing 190 around Oxfordshire. Etsy is a global marketplace for selling handmade goods & vintage items. 4 Oxfordshire Artweeks www.artweeks.org 5 68 | ART ART | 69 ISSN: 2046-6781 Art Scholarships Available I prefer to paint in-situ so I can react instinctively to the landscape bringing the emotions, weather and light of the place into my paintings TOP LEFT Landscape Painting ABOVE MAGAZINE Wildsong Scottish Seascape TOP RIGHT OXFORDSHIRE’S FINEST This winter, Oxford’s North Wall Arts Centre houses cold and wintry Seascape Painting scenes, as paintings by Oxfordshire Artweeks’ Jane Duff hang on the crisp white walls. Creation Theatre company present The Snow Queen in the auditorium in their magical and ever-inventive style. ith live music on stage, a small and versatile Jane reached university her horizons shifted: hearing the wasn’t for many years that I turned my hand to drawing and cast tell the traditional tale of two children, adventures of a fellow student who’d spent the summer painting. I wasn’t really an art enthusiast or even a regular Gerda and her best friend Kai who has driving from London to Kathmandu in an old van, she was visitor to art galleries. Then had a life-changing moment gone missing. With a knapsack and song, fascinated by the idea of walking in Nepal. at an exhibition in Beard Mill in Stanton Harcourt during GerdaW travels through shards of mirror into Lapland’s frozen As a result, she spent much of her early twenties high in Oxfordshire Artweeks fifteen years ago when I suddenly landscape, on her quest to rescue Kai from the Snow Queen the Himalayas. First trekking and camping alone, walking became interested.