West Ox Arts was looking for a new chairman after the death of Gerry Glaister who had been chairman for 3 years. The present exhibition of members' work to the end of the month includes African-style acrylics by artist Michelle Buh-Nielsen.
For several years, two shows a year were put on in the Village Hall and this flyer is for one of them. It was for Bowjangles who gave a wonderfully skilful and funny evening's entertainment in the Village Hall Saturday September 29th 2012.
Bampton Primary School children won an award for a mosaic which depicted Bampton. It contained Morris Dancers, the church and a tree to represent the millennium wood which was planted.In the photograph are Laura Kent, Jamie Norman and Camilla Day.
Among artists exhibition in Bampton were Ann Manly and her husband Dennis Harrison with their water colours, drawings by Christine Burgess, sculptures by Juliet Dyer.
May 1999Arts Week. The Gallery in the Town Hall was used by the Oxford Arts Society because the room they had been using in the Westgate Library was no longer available to them.The picture shows some garden ceramics made by Maureen Wilsker
West Oxfordshire District Council hoped to give £50k for special art development schemes in West Oxfordshire. The Gallery in Bampton was to get £3,750.
Artist Nigel Plumb held an exhibition in 2000 in the Art Gallery called Drawn to Dripped from July 9th.The majority of his works in the exhibition were created by dripping household gloss paint on to paper canvas with a stick.
Ariana Windle was one of 4 artists to exhibit in September 2004 but she died shortly before the exhibition date. However, her children hung some of her work alongside that of Lesley Williams, Lyn Anderson and Ben Drew.
Each year West Ox Arts mount a special Christmas Craft Fair in December. In 2000 the theme was The Twelve Days of Christmas. Work included ceramics textiles wood papier mache jewellery basket, ware mosaics, calligraphy cards picture/photo frames and more
This is the flyer for an exhibition by Ann Manly and her husband Dennis Harrison in November 2000. All their paintings were done outside and part of the exhibition