Oxfordshire Artweeks is the UK’s oldest and biggest open studios and pop-up exhibition event, and the 41st festival – which runs from 6-29 May and begins with a coronation – promises to be fit for a king.
Abingdon Quilters (Artweeks venue 19)
Quilted art by 20 artists from three quilting groups in Abingdon.
Abingdon County Museum
Market Place OX14 3HG
Open 6-14, 16-21 and 23-29 May (10am-4pm)
Abbey Group (Artweeks venue 20)
Inspired paintings, vibrant glass art and beautiful stoneware by talented local artists.
St Nicolas Church
Market Place OX14 3JD
Open 7-13 May (10am-5pm; Sun 2pm-5pm)
New venue for 2023 - Oxon Artmakers (Artweeks venue 21)
A group of artists expressing their feelings on paper and canvas to make inspiring art.
The Abbey Cinema
Abbey Close OX14 3LD
Open 6-11 May (10am-9pm)
New venue for 2023 - Makespace Oxford (Artweeks venue 22)
Visual arts and crafts from residents of spaces reanimated by Makespace Oxford.
The Charter Studios
The Charter, 3rd Floor
Broad Street OX14 3LZ
Open 8-10 May (10am-2pm)
Caroline Harben (Artweeks venue 23)
Paintings of the local landscape capturing the changing seasons and their charms.
St Ethelwold's House
30 East St Helen's Street OX14 5EB
Open 11-14 May (11am-4pm)
New artist for 2023 - Emma Williams (Artweeks venue 24)
Colourful semi-abstracted images of country and coast made from cyanotypes, painting and printmaking.
The River Room, St Ethelwold's House
30 East St Helen Street OX14 5EB
Open 11-14 May (11am-5pm)
New venue for 2023 - Oxfordshire Chinese Brush Painting Group (Artweeks venue 25)
Painting A celebration of Chinese Brush Painting in all its styles, on paper and on silk. Also open 15-20, 22-27 and 29 May.
35 Ock Street Abingdon OX14 5AG
10.30am-2pm (Sat 10.30-12.30pm) 6 8-13 May
New venue for 2023 - Fi Cooper (Artweeks venue 14)
Ceramics with designs influenced by the natural world.
5 Cameron Avenue OX14 3SR
Open 6-7 10-14 May (11am-6pm; Wed 2-6pm/Thu 2-7.30pm)
Peach Croft Farm Artists (Artweeks venue 15)
Lively new art in a beautiful old barn. Sculpture, paintings, ceramics, textiles, including paintings by Paul Minter and the Six Great Jewellers. Daily demos at 2pm.
Peach Croft Farm
Twelve Acre Drive OX142HP
Open 6-14 May (10am-5pm)
Dominique Walravens (Artweeks venue 17)
A mixed media artist and illustrator with influences from nature to fantasy and everything in-between.
24 Welford Gardens OX14 2BW
Open 6-14 May (10am-5pm)
New faces for 2023 - Jan Morter and Julie Edge (Artweeks venue 18)
Jan’s stoneware ceramic vessels for every day and special occasions and Julie’s mixed media art inspired by landscapes and plants.
27 St John's Road OX14 2HA
Open 7-14 May (11am-6pm)
Oxford Wood Recycling Artweeks venue 26
Reduce, Reuse, Repair. What does this phrase mean? Oxford Wood Recycling asked local schools who have interpreted it through art.
Oxford Wood Recycling
4 Suffolk Way OX14 5JX
Open 6 8-13, 15-20, 22-27, and 29 May 9.30am-4.30pm (Sat 9-3pm)
In the surrounding villages...
Lower Radley: Printmakers Lizzie and Susan Wheeler (Artweeks venues 11 and 12)
Linoprints, collagraphs, monoprints, and etchings based on animals and the natural world, about the landscape and the plants and creatures that share it with us.
115 Lower Radley OX14 3BA
Open 6-14 May (11am-6pm)
Radley: Ceramicists Dylan Bowen and Elizabeth Newbery (Artweeks venue 13)
An exhibition Slipware: Sources of Inspiration
Sewell Centre Gallery
Radley College OX14 2HR
Open 6, 9, 11 and 13 May (1pm-5pm) or by appt
Culham: New for 2023, photographer Daniel Taylor (Artweeks venue 27)
Photographic landscapes and abstracts in the 179-year-old railway station.
The Old Ticket Office, Platform 2
Culham Station, Station Road OX14 3BT
Open 6-7 13-14 May (11am-5pm)
Culham: ceramicist Charlotte Storrs (Artweeks venue 28)
Functional stoneware, all wheel-thrown. Pottery in beautiful secret garden close to the Thames.
The Pottery and Greenhouse gallery
8 The Green , Culham OX14 4LZ
Open 6-7 9 12-14 May (11am-6pm)
Drayton: Carolyn Hawkes and Andrea Whitehouse (Artweeks venue 29)
A wide variety of acrylic and mixed media paintings: vibrantly colourful landscapes together with abstract designs large and small.
The Gallery Upstairs
28 Lammas Land, Drayton OX14 4GG
Open 7-8 11-14 May (11am-6pm)
Marcham: Pip Stacey (Artweeks venue 31)
Stunning experimental kiln formed glass art and jewellery - fused, cast, pressed, pâte de verre.
Pear Tree Cottage
7 Packhorse Lane, Marcham OX13 6NT
Open 6-7 11-14 May (12pm-5pm)
Wootton: Anna Crook and Anna Lockwood (Artweeks venue 32)
Modern bright bird paintings; hand-built textured/patterned ceramics; and a mutual love of nature.
Cockerels, 29 Wootton Village
Old Boars Hill OX1 5HP
Open 6-14 May (11am-6pm)
Dry Sandford: Elaine Newson (Artweeks venue 33)
Colourful textiles, glass, jewellery, painting, printmaking, mixed media, cards and more. Parking and teas.
Sanctuary, 32 The Field
Dry Sandford OX13 6ED
Open 7-14 May (11am-6pm)
Appleton Artweeks (Artweeks venue 39)
A group of artists and makers showing pictures; ceramics; jewellery and other media in a bright and airy village hall with refreshments.
Appleton Village Hall
Oaksmere, Appleton OX13 5JS
Open 13-14 May (10.30am-5pm)
Sunningwell School of Art (Artweeks venue 30)
Celebrating 50 years of adventures in painting, pottery, drawing and sculpture (1973-2023).
Sunningwell School of Art The Old School
Sunningwell OX13 6RD
Open 27-29 May (12pm-6pm)
In the Cumnor Cluster…
Hannah Vickery (Artweeks venue 34)
Evocative semi-abstract mixed media paintings inspired by natural and literary sources.
2B Hurst Lane
Cumnor OX2 9PR
Open 6-7 and 13-14 May (11am-5pm)
Annabel Jolly and Sarah Bond (Artweeks venues 35 and 36)
Colourful contemporary paintings inspired by the sun, sea and renewable energy and decorative shellwork mirrors and pictures that bring the beach to light bright airy Archangel Studio.
1 Abingdon Road
Cumnor OX2 9QN
Open 12-14 May (11am-5pm)
Ian Fraser (Artweeks venue 37)
Raku ceramics and limited-edition architectural prints of Oxford and Venice.
94 Oxford Road
Cumnor OX2 9PQ
Open 12-14 May (11am-5pm)
Judith Scott (Artweeks venue 38)
Silent Oxford: watercolour and drawn images inspired by a city in lock down plus other works in oils, inks and soft metals.
80 Appleton Road
Cumnor OX2 9QH
Open 6-7, 9-10 and 12-14 May (10am-5pm)
An art trail in The Wittenhams...
Earth Trust Gallery (Artweeks venue 77)
Nestled beneath the iconic Wittenham Clumps, connect with nature whilst admiring beautiful local ceramics, painting, stunning aerial photography of The Ridgeway and more.
Earth Trust Centre
Sires Hill OX14 4QZ
Open 6-14 May (10am-3pm)
Clumps Orchard Arts (Artweeks venue 75)
A group of six artists exhibiting a new collection of paintings and sculpture entitled Sychronicity in a beautiful barn gallery.
Clumps Orchard
Little Wittenham OX14 4RE
Open 6-8 11-14 May (11am-6pm)
Jane Duff (Artweeks venue 76)
Paintings of Oxfordshire and Wales. Photographs of Svalbard, Antarctica and S. America. Enjoy teas in beautiful gardens.
The White Cottage
Little Wittenham OX14 4RA
Open 6-7 9-14 May (11am-6pm)
Sylva Wood Centre (Artweeks venue 74)
Wood, Painting, Textiles
Open furniture workshops, Sylva Wood School, Anglo-Saxon house, Future Forest walks. Other art. Home-made teas in Hardwood Café. Free parking.
Little Wittenham Road
Long Wittenham OX14 4QT
6-7 13-14 May (10am-4pm)
Clare Owen and Nandi Ablett (Artweeks venue 73)
Painting, Pottery
Pottery - hand-built decorated plates, tall jars and small items with emphasis on wildlife species’ extinctions – and bird and pet paintings.
42 Little Wittenham Road
Long Wittenham OX14 4QS
7-8 12-14 May (11am-5.30pm)
Susan Olave, Ken Organ OAS and Caroline George (Artweeks venue 72)
Creatively inspiring textile design and paintings exhibited in a mystical Mongolian yurt.
Haddon Acre
Sires Hill OX11 9BG
7-14 May (11am-6pm, Thu 11am–8pm)
For more details on these and other venues or to browse an on-line art showcase visit artweeks.org
