Sponsors

Speakers

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  Alexandra Buckle

  Artweeks 

  I am inspired by countryside walks and the changes in weather and season upon the landscape and enjoy translating these scenic discoveries into colourful linocuts. Themes for my work include trees, water and flowers and more recently a trip to Japan. My work is impressionistic in style; I’m interested in colour, light, depth and detail. Most of my prints are reduction linocuts which are relief prints formed with layers of colour which are cut and printed from the same block of lino, destroying the block in the process. I create a small, limited edition of every work, as each piece is created by hand, small variations make each one original.
  I’ve been a full-time printmaker since 2012 when I moved to Bicester and created a simple printmaking studio at home so that I could develop my skills to the highest standards. I am a best seller on the Artfinder online marketplace and my linocuts have been displayed at the Royal Academy, the Bankside Gallery and Mall Galleries in London. My work sells to collectors across the UK and internationally.
  I teach group lino cutting workshops at the Phoenix Studio in Towersey and other venues. Check my website for upcoming courses for adults at Stowe School.

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  Casimira Mostyn

  Casimira Mostyn

  Casimira is an Oxfordshire based artist selling mainly quirky, naive paintings specialising in quirky hares, quirky trees, quirky landscapes, quirky seascapes and various other subjects.

  She enjoys using different mediums including acrylics, watercolours, oils and mixed media and occasionally pastels. Her paintings are always inspired by a colourful palette.

  She also sells greeting cards and postcards professionally printed from her original artwork as well as printed fridge magnets, hand painted as well as fired tiles and coasters and hand painted vinyl clocks, all for sale here on casimirasquirkyart.com! You will also find craft items for sale such as owl cushions and hand made bags.

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  Celine Beaugrand

  Artweeks

  This year, I am exhibiting a very eclectic art selection, from seascape through to Still Life, human subject and even delicious food! I tend to paint a subject that attracts my attention, whether it is related to the balance of colours, the composition or the theme.

  I am French and have lived in Oxfordshire for over 30 years. I started crafting and drawing with my daughters when they were growing up. In 2018, I set up a website and joined the Bicester Art Network, which was a newly created group of enthusiastic local artists. I started taking part in exhibitions and craft fairs and selling my art.

  Although I first created my art using watercolour, acrylic and collage, I now almost exclusively use technical technology, designing on my iPad using a couple of fabulous Apps. I usually work from pictures which appeal to me, whether they are from holiday escapes or a bunch of flowers on a table, a personal experience or inspiration from a movie… I challenge myself painting various themes and playing with colours and shades. I am self-taught and love challenging myself with new styles.

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  Dan Craft

  Artweeks

  My Name is Daniel Craft and I am a BA Honours Fine Art graduate from the University of Northampton.
  
  Currently based in my home county of Oxfordshire, my artistic practice focuses on the utilization of digital editing and sculpting software to create colourful and vibrant images. These images are responses to how I and many other feel in the moment in relation to current politics and queer identity.
  
  I am known for having input (while also exhibiting as well) in the curation of different exhibitions. These include (with support from art galleries Two Queens and NN Contemporary), “Constellate” (2022) and working with the owners of the Grade I Listed House Lamport Hall in a show entitled “Forecast” (2022)

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  David Meeks

  Artweeks

  David R Meeks - born in Kettering Northamptonshire. David now lives in Oxfordshire working as a professional artist and tutor.
  He received no formal training whatsoever. He relies purely on his own talent and natural versatility. His work has been published as greeting cards as well as open and limited prints.
  
  His paintings and prints are now eagerly collected by UK and overseas visitors. His success has led to his paintings being in many private collections in this country and abroad. His work can be found as far a field as America, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia, where his water colours of the Oxfordshire countryside have become renowned for their pleasing professional appeal.

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  Graham Perryman

  Graham is a professional picture framer and founder of Dragonfly Framing in Bicester. He started his career within the horticultural industry some 35 years ago. Having started growing fruit trees and shrubs in the fields around the south coast before moving into the retail sector. Latterly Graham spent a decade in marketing, winning awards from the Marketing Society for his efforts, before finally deciding to take the plunge and set up his new business in a completely new sector, Picture Framing.

  With his keen interest in the arts, photography, the natural world and of course horticulture, Picture Framing was not the most obvious choice of a future career. However, his desire to present his photography to a wider audience and to find a creative outlet that offered a better work/life balance than working away from home the majority of the time was high on the list of priorities. His love of art and horticultural background, influences his photography, and the practical side of picture framing appealed very much to his practical and creative skills. Having invested in the tools of the trade and training Graham launched Dragonfly Framing in February 2017 and hasn’t looked back since.

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  Miranda Markham

  Artweeks

  Miranda Markham is an Oxfordshire based artist painting in watercolour and oil. She took up painting 8 years ago and enjoys painting across a wide variety of subjects although her speciality is still life and portraiture. Her style is loose and impressionistic inspired by her frequent trips to France and the beautiful summer light.
  
  Miranda founded the Art in the Countryside charity exhibition in Newton Purcell where she partners with organiser Graham Perryman every June to celebrate local artists exhibiting and selling their work with a rural theme.
  
  Miranda paints and sells her work throughout the year and is available for commissions

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  Stuart Feurtado

  I’m a self-taught photographer who used the advent of the digital era to learn, experiment and develop my own style. 

  I’m a member of the Royal Photographic Society and have gained it’s LRPS distinction (Licentiate of the RPS).

  My work covers many photographic genres, all of which I approach with an eye for composition and creativity. Inspired by both natural and manmade forms I create vibrant colour abstracts, moody monochrome landscapes , detailed natural history images and all points between. I mainly use “in camera techniques” to create my images but also use software to finish images off, or to create and enhance abstracts. My aim is to generate an emotional connection with myself and, hopefully, other viewers, to the finished image.

  
  I’ve been exhibiting for about 15 years at Art and Craft fairs, Open Studios/Art Weeks events and has held successful exhibitions in the “A Little Bird Told Me” gallery in Wendover, the “Stables Gallery” of the Claydon Estate near Buckingham, Stonework Thame, “The Old Fire Station” gallery” in Henley and “Art in the “Leamington Spa Park Art”.

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  Susan Harding

  Susan Harding

   

  Artweeks

  I've been taking photographs since I was 11 years old. Starting with a twin lens camera that once belonged to my father.

  I mostly take pictures of wildlife and fauna as well as military aircraft.
  Resently I decided to print some of favourites out.

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  Vivien Willacy

  Artweeks

  Born in Lancashire, I have lived in Oxfordshire for approximately 30 years. I only came to the discovery that I could draw in 2018 on the death of my father. I picked up a pencil and drew a lily and couldn't quite believe I'd done it. I then went on to draw a few pencil portraits for friends and relatives.
  Drawing then stopped until I was furloughed in 2020 when I decided to try coloured pencils. From that point on I have been on a rollercoaster of a journey which resulted in my first exhibiting in Oxfordshire Artweeks, followed by Artists in the Countryside in 2022. Initially my work was animal portraits but as my confidence has grown I have explored other subjects and, more recently, a different medium. I draw what inspires me and as a country girl I am very much drawn to wildlife, the countryside and the coast. I do however love challenging myself and as a result braved human portraits and the human form. My new medium is pastel pencil which I am loving.
  This has turned into a real passion for me, it’s my yoga with pencils, my happy place, my escape! I particularly love taking the opportunity to showcase my work and I am very happy to talk to people about it. It has been quite a journey and being completely self-taught I hope I can inspire others just to try.

Going

• Vivien Willacy
• Jennie fairweather
• Casimira Mostyn
• Graham Perryman
• Stuart Feurtado
• Celine Beaugrand
• Susan Harding
• Nicola Currin
• Jasmine
• Breda McNamara
• Nick Ford
• Lydia
• Guest Margaret Graham
• Jackie Bennett
• Les Riley
• Denise Thornton
• Aida Padron
• Jayne Christie
• Alexandra Wright
• Victoria Stanway
• Alexandra Buckle
• Daniel Craft