Hilda Kent and Margaret Howse are seen looking at some of the members' artwork at a members' exhibition in the Gallery upstairs in the Town Hall

Two happy children with their dog playing in the Highmoor Brook off Cheyne Lane. Sadly the vegetation has encroached from both sides of the slipway making access to the water very narrow.

Artists from The Granary Studio in Stanford-in-The-Vale were invited to exhibit in Bampton Gallery. There were paintings in water colours, acrylics, pastels and charcoal, sculptures in Papier-mâché , ceramics and mosaics.

This Frog Prince was made by Jo Lewington. I asked her to tell me about it and she said :-

"This dates from my sculptor phase in the ‘80s. I made 3 or 4 of these. One was sent to the head of a fashion house in California ( I remember it as Mr Gucci , but that can’t be right, but he was famous). I think the one in the picture went to another rich American. I can’t remember what happened to the rest but there is one somewhere in the Cotswolds. I made postcards and a leaflet and distributed them around Chelsea Garden Show, but at that time I was off to India for a year and my career as a sculptor ended."

This delightful Frog Prince was created by Jo Lewington.

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

Four artists provided the exhibits on display in the gallery at the Imprimaturs' exhibition of prints and sculptures. One of the artists was Geoff Smith of Faringdon whose lovely images of Coleshill Watermill and Great Coxwell Tithe Barn were on show.

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

This is a newspaper article from the Oxford Times June 10th 1960 which talks about the fete held at Weald Manor by kind permission of Mrs A.M. Colvile and her son Major R.A. Colvile. It was to raise funds for the renewal of part of the floor inside Saint Mary The Virgin Church, specifically the parquet flooring across the front of the aisles by the pulpit and lectern.
It was Whit Monday, the day of Morris Dancing in Bampton (until the government stopped Whit Monday being a Bank Holiday and fixed it at the last Monday in May with may or not be Whit Monday) and the dancers called at the Fete.

Three West Oxfordshire venues shared an autumn display of exotic art. In Bampton Gallery traditional cael girths and regalia from Rajasthan and Gujarat were on display from late September well into October.