Andrew Lanyon: Art Jericho
Andrew Lanyon grew up in Cornwall, influenced by the modernists in St Ives, where his artist father Peter Lanyon worked alongside Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo.
View ArticleGainsborough's Landscapes: Themes and Variations: Compton Verney
‘I am sick of portraits and wish very much to . . . walk off to some sweet Village where I can paint Landskips and enjoy the fag End of Life in quietness & ease,” Thomas Gainsborough grumbled in a...
View ArticleLife Lines, Angela Palmer: Waterhouse & Dodd, Cork Street, London
In the same way as lines of ink on a page become writing, become a novel, become the reality of a story in the imagination of writers like Robert Harris, and in turn that of the readers, so the lines...
View ArticleDonning Oxford: O3 Gallery, Oxford
The pun in the title of this exhibition makes reference to both the academic aspects of the city and to the act of donning regalia, insignia, jewellery and other badges or markers that establish an...
View ArticlePortraits of the Queen: Bampton Gallery
This striking exhibition has drawn artists from round the world who see the Queen with traditional and fresh eyes.
View ArticleSculptors on form
THERESA THOMPSON delights in a new stone sculpture exhibition at Asthall Manor
View ArticleContemporary sculpture: Waddesdon Manor
A giant House of Cards stands on the parterre at Waddesdon Manor. Its four sheets of steel lean one against the other, the precarious balancing act of American artist Richard Serra’s work sustained by...
View ArticleJenny Saville: Modern Art Oxford
It’s been quite a year for flesh. Lucien Freud in London to begin with, heroic nudes over at Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford in time for the Olympics, and now at Modern Art Oxford (MAO) British...
View ArticleCeri Richards: Art Jericho
This exhibition, 40 years after the death of this remarkable artist, focuses on his later work of lithographs and colour prints. It provides a wonderful introduction to, or re-acquaintance with,...
View ArticlePreview of Art in Action, Waterperry
Every July, 400-plus artists, craftspeople, performers, musicians and lecturers come together in the beautiful house and grounds at Waterperry (right) to demonstrate their skills and their love of...
View ArticlePreview of Ivan Green exhibition, Dadbrook Gallery, Cuddington
Ivan Green is an artist who has developed a revolutionary method of print making which results in works both richly textured and hauntingly atmospheric. As a celebration of the Olympic Games, Dadbrook...
View ArticleFancy Free, Oxfordshire Craft Guild: West Ox Arts, Bampton
This varied exhibition in Bampton draws on both past and future. Victoria Borondo, inspired by vintage dresses, botanical paintings and china designs, favours a muted palette. Her bags, purses and...
View ArticleMarion Yorston: The North Wall, Oxford
The talented artist, Marion Yorston’s latest exhibition Translucent delves into evolution. Marion came here from the Orkneys, renowned for its archaeology, history, art and wild landscapes. Her...
View ArticleWonderland: O3 Gallery, Oxford Castle
This year is particularly significant for the Alice Day celebrations which take place each July, as it is the 150th anniversary of the year in which Lewis Carroll told his tale of Alice’s Adventures...
View ArticleFred Cuming: Brian Sinfield gallery, Burford
‘It’s where I walk every day, or pretty much every day,” said Fred Cuming RA. “Camber Sands, about five or six miles from where I live, at Iden, near Rye.”
View ArticleFlight and the Artistic Imagination: Compton Verney
Compton Verney goes from strength to strength.
View ArticleAway: Art Jericho
Away brings together work by photographers Sharon Boothroyd and Tim Crooks. They both explore aspects of dislocation, vulnerability and absence.
View ArticleBohemian Pearl: Erin Singleton. Vesey Room, Bampton Library
Tucked away near the church, in the picturesque town of Bampton, Erin Singleton, a perceptive artist, has mounted a thought-provoking exhibition on the 1930s through to the 1960s. Using wood, paint...
View ArticleJane Hope: O3 Gallery, Oxford
The majority of artist Jane Hope’s work is inspired by and executed in the winter, when the combination of the light and the play of shadows intrigues and engages her. Throughout her work Hope creates...
View ArticleThe Storyloom/Tea With Alice: The Story Museum, Oxford
Ted Dewan calls Oxford “the Hollywood of stories”. The artist in residence at the Story Museum fermented his ideas in Philip Pullman ’s shed relocated to his garden. The location of the Story Museum...
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