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

Oxford Touring Company went on tour with a new family show called 'Noah's Ark' with sets that could be lifted easily out of cars and vans and great use was made of puppets to bring the show to life.

An exhibition celebrating theatrical masks were on show at the Gallery thanks to Trading Faces Theatre Company.

Oxford Scribes, a society of calligraphers collaborated with the Oxford Guild of Printers to put on an exhibition of contemporary manuscripts, printed alphabet books and type specimen posters in the Gallery.

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.

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.

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.

All the exhibitors are past students of Pat Elmore of Nutfield Lodge, Longcot near Faringdon. Some of the exhibitors includePat BannisterDavid BindonGordon DowellRon HolmesSheila LambertFranc MurphyElaine McElroyRon Holmes