This page gives an outline of when and how the West Oxfordshire Arts Association was formed and how it was to be run initially at least.
Saturday May 26th 1973 was the first day of the first exhibition in the Gallery, the upstairs room in the Town Hall

Lendon Scantlebury and Dawn Benson exhibited in the Gallery in February 2004. Lendon showed work with brilliant colour inspired by Barbados while Dawn used textured pastels to capture the mood of the place.

"Picture books are multi-track ways of talking, using words, graphics, page design, cartoons and art as a way of telling many things simultaneously" said Michael Rosen. In this exhibition West Ox Arts brought another dimension to Korky Paul's zany posters and his riotous books. She used gouache, ink pens and crayons in her pictures. The illustrations for many books were a delight.

This delightful telling of the story of Pinocchio was done in the Village Hall in January 2006. Really cleaver use of puppetry, songs, music and storytelling thrilled the children, and the accompanying adults.
Neil Canham was the only performer and proved to be an outstanding storyteller.

Five artists using different media tell their own witty and intriguing stories in an exhibition titles 'In Character'

Eleanor Edwards - wire and paper for her sculptures
Alan Ludwig Kestner - complex figurative drawings explore folktale, myth & history
Clare Bassett - hand coloured stone lithographs
Anna Lever - ceramic sculptures dressed in vibrant patterns
Alison Jones - raku-fired puffins

Four women exhibited in February 2005 using a wide variety of media and enjoying an exuberant pleasure in colour.

Joan Dutton - kiln formed glass
Ruth Macdonald - brilliantly coloured paintings
Jennifer Wates - oil and acrylic
Sarah Gilpin - carvings in Portland stone

These four photographs were taken by Adrian Simmonds from the upstairs of his shop, Bampton Stores at the west end of the Market Square in 1984