27 Oct 2020

THE  RESTAURANT  GALLERY

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Fresh modern paintings, limited edition prints and cards created by Kirsten Jones

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Vibrant artworks created in the local area, each artwork with its own story including 'Love Oxford' - 

This piece captures the essence of our famous City including well known features alongside hidden gems and secret stories. Famous landmarks such as The Bodleian Library and facade, The Ashmolean Museum, Turl Street, the Radcliffe Camera and Oxford Castle, punts and The Bridge of Sighs to name a few. 

 The piece includes references to the town crest and Nuffield Crest along with pub signs for ‘The Bird and Baby’, ‘The Grapes’ and ‘The Lamb and Flag’ amongst others. Places from other towns along the Thames are hidden and ink studies of the spires and the crests of the Oxford Colleges. 

Familiar features of this culturally diverse and surprising city are placed along with nature, patterns, signs and motifs I spotted on my journeys in and around... not forgetting, of course.. a bicycle!

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Exhibition dates

Tuesday 27th October 2020 - early 2021

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12 Oct 2020

Portraits and notes from interviews with women in Kabul in 2019, exploring the role of beauty in their lives.

Amidst one of the worst summers for civilian casualties in Afghanistan’s history (2019), Elena Gallina flew to Kabul to photograph and interview dozens of women about the role beauty plays in their lives: is it a strength or weakness, a source of power or a means of exploitation?

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‘’I chose to photograph and speak to Afghan women because they, far too often in the last two decades, have been tokenized, victimized, and painted in only one light by the international community. Yes, they are on the frontlines. But they are neither victims nor heroes, they are simply women like all the rest, crying out to create a new kingdom.’’ – Gallina

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The exhibition, unstaged portraits and ponderings, invites viewers to suspend prior conceptions of “women in war zones” and enter into a complicated, universally applicable, conversation about the dualities of beauty.

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Elena has been researching violence against women for many years. Having grown up in Kosovo in the aftermath of the genocide and worked in refugee camps across the Middle East since she was 17, her understanding of the complications of beauty and exploitation are deeply personal. Motivated by her own experience and those who have inspired her, her photography captures the double standards put upon women and elevates the nuances of their experience. She is currently a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford studying the historic links between women’s empowerment and physical fitness.

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This exhibition is in collaboration with Photo Oxford Festival taking place in Oxford from 16th October to 16th November 2020. For more information on the festival and its events please visit www.photooxford.org

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Artist day:
Thursday 15th October, 7-9pm
Artist invite only

Exhibition dates:
13th October - Early 2021
Boiler Room Gallery

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19 Oct 2020

THE SMALL & LARGE GALLERY
 

Artisans Reunited: A Celebration of friendship, creativity and endurance.

An exhibition of fourteen established artist -designer -crafts people who studied together and graduated in the late 1980s. This show is the first time since then that this group of friends have exhibited collectively.

The artists feel fortunate to have enjoyed such an enduring friendship and to be part of a something so inspiring and creative. This exhibition celebrates this camaraderie.

The collective - the majority of whom are textile designers - will each showcase pieces of their current work. The works range from paintings to textiles, encompassing both two dimensional and three-dimensional pieces using a variety of techniques and media.

The link between these artists started with their art school training In Farnham at West Surrey College of Art and Design (now University for the Creative Arts), it was at this college where this diverse group of people came from all over the UK to study. They were taught the fundamentals of drawing, painting and craft making skills.  With the methodology that originated from the Bauhaus school of art and design teaching system. Observational drawing underpinned this rigorous training which emphasised craft skills, a critical eye for aesthetic excellence and the ethos of William Morris : truth to materials, and that the same person should make a piece from start to finish ; in contrast to mass production . Each artist specialised in weaving, printing or sculpture, not only designing the artwork but also making it themselves.

The concept of the show was conceived before the global pandemic; however, the artists feel the message of the show is now more important and relevant than ever.

Featuring: Louise Dixon, Karen Hadfield, Joanna Kinnersly-Taylor, Sally Watt, Sarah Dennis, Debbie Threlfall, Greg Threlfall, Sally Seaward, Judith De St Croix, Franklyn Beckford, Sarah White, Catherine Hughes, Susan Howarth, Susannah Cartwright 

Exhibition dates:
20th October - Early 2021

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20 Apr 2020

The Jam Factory is pleased to present 'Avant-Garde Hair & Jewellery', a collaborative exhibition between award-winning hair artist Anne Veck and designer jeweller Chloe Mellen of 'Dirty French Girl' Jewellery.

Artist Evening:
Sunday 3rd May, 6-8pm
Free and welcome to all to attend

Exhibition dates:
21st April - 31st May 2020
Boiler Room Gallery

Oxfordshire Artweeks Venue 382:
www.artweeks.org/festival/2020/anne-veck-dirty-french-girl

Oscar Wilde once said ‘Life imitates art far more than art imitates life’... but what about living art? What about artistic practices that allow the wearers to become art themselves? For the last 39 years Oxfordshire Artweeks has introduced the county to an impressive range of mediums each May in the UK’s largest open artist studios and pop-up exhibition festival, but this year is the first that a human material has been presented... hair!

In this exhibition of alchemy, where fashion and art merge to create something completely new, award-winning hair artist Anne Veck and her daughter Chloe Mellen of Dirty French Girl Jewellery present ‘Avant-Garde Hair & Jewellery’ in our Boiler Room Gallery. Featuring a portfolio of stunning photography in which Anne Veck transforms hair into sculptural forms, and an array of unique designer jewellery pieces that often take inspiration from human form, the two different practices marry with a fascinating collaborative project. A small collection of jewellery items that double up as hairdressing tools are a fitting conclusion to the conversation between each artist’s work. A ring that can be used to section hair and a bracelet that holds hairbands between its teeth are examples of harmonious fusion between ideas; practical and stylish, the aesthetic is undeniably Dirty French Girl and the practicality signature of Anne Veck. Experience art, design and the avant-garde at The Jam Factory until 31st May.

04 Mar 2020

The Jam Factory is pleased to present 'MASAYA: The Power of the Female Collective', an exhibition by Plutonyka as part of the Oxford International Women's Day Festival.

Inauguration Event, including live performance and Q&A:
Sunday 8th March, 4-6pm
The Boiler Room Gallery at The Jam Factory

Exhibition dates:
4th March - 19th April 2020

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Oxford International Women’s Festival is bringing a powerful line up of events to the city this year, celebrating women’s strengths, successes and solidarity. As always, the message is best delivered through arts and culture, which brings into question the role of women in art, historically and in a contemporary context. For instance, what does a female collective look like? The festival addresses this with ‘MASAYA: The Power of the Female Collective’, a photography exhibition in The Jam Factory’s Boiler Room Gallery.

MASAYA is a community project that works to empower women survivors of sexual violence through creative workshops. The exhibition showcases the work created by women and girls in these workshops across Oxfordshire, in collaboration with organisations such as OSARCC (Oxfordshire Sexual Abuse and Rape Crisis Centre) and YWMP (Young Women’s Music Project). Workshops themes include ‘vocal’, ‘mask’ and ‘body sculpture’, resulting in a dynamic collection of images and live performance art.

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The exhibition invites the public to join the discussion with a celebratory inauguration event on International Women’s Day that gives a face, voice and movement to these survivors. Explore the power of the female collective on Sunday 8th March, 4-6pm.

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26 Feb 2020

The Jam Factory presents 'Notice the Small Things' a group exhibition of small, cheerful illustration work by UK artists and illustrators.

Exhibition Dates:
26th February - 6th April 2020
Restaurant Gallery

'Notice the Small Things' explores the many mediums and moments of joy inspiring several different illustrators. From embroidery to ceramics, brush pen to digital drawings, this exhibition depicts the whimsical wonder of all things bright and small.

Featuring:

Chloe Doodles Things | Manon Daisy Illustrates | Too Lilyish | Cutie Fruitie Ceramics | Charlotte Orr Illustration | Laura Sayers Illustration

Cover image by Chloe Doodles Things

Curated by Eleanor Monk

21 Feb 2020

The Jam Factory is pleased to present 'Misillusions: Alternative Perspectives of Oxford', an exhibition by Joshua Squashua.

Artist Evening
Sunday 23rd February, 6-8pm
Free and welcome to all to attend

Exhibition dates
21st February - 20th April 2020

You may have spotted street artist Joshua Squashua transforming some of Oxford’s many vacant storefronts into pop up galleries, or sketching with speed and agility in odd places around town. The collection of paintings hastily taped to plywood or dark windows capture a beauty easily missed by the busy commuters that rush by, though many are brought to a sudden stop by this flash of warm colour on grey street corners. Squashua’s wavy, dream like studies of everyday life in Oxford City glow with the light of golden hour seen through rose tinted lenses, capturing an alternative perspective of what some might consider mundane.

The artist is inspired by the Fibonacci spiral, discovering the golden ratio that is so often found in nature amongst the paths and spires of Oxford. Reality is warped and wonderful in Squashua’s paintings, which pop up like an urban phenomenon unpredictably across the City. Joshua Squashua’s travelling gallery of artwork finds stable walls at The Jam Factory from the 21st February to the 20th of April this year, in his first solo show ‘Misillusions: Alternative Perspectives of Oxford’.

Curated by Eleanor Monk, with thanks to The Covered Arts.

15 Jan 2020

THE RESTAURANT GALLERY

The Jam Factory presents 'One Fine Summer in the Cotswolds', the first solo show of Oxford painter Rosie Phipps.

Artist Evening:
Sunday 19th January, 6-8pm
Welcome to all.

Exhibition Dates:
15th January - 24th February 2020

Local artist Rosie Phipps has been painting for decades in privacy, creating dream like studies of flowers, landscapes and figures that paste imagination on to paper. After a hugely successful public debut exhibiting with the LiterArties collective and Oxfordshire Artweeks last year, Phipps’ long overdue solo show ‘One Fine Summer in the Cotswolds’ comes to The Jam Factory this January.

Made up of a large collection of charmingly small watercolour landscapes, the exhibition forms a gallery of windows gazing onto joyful, sunshine yellow fields beneath moody British skies. We’re invited to lose ourselves in a land of contrast: bright but clouded, loose but smooth. Reflecting on these works, Phipps describes them as “the pleasure of sitting in a field all day staring at the way the fields are shaped by the contours of the earth. And shaped again by the shadows of the clouds that tumble across the sky. Always changing. And always there giving one a sense of familiarity and stability. The Cotswold’s. So different from where I was brought up. The wild and endless landscape of the Transvaal in South Africa. No neat fields.”

Phipps’ process begins in disorder that develops into deep patterns. “Light creates the brushstrokes and the forms, I follow those”, she explains. “The landscape creates a small focus frame by frame of the land and helps one to temporarily ignore the world that exists beyond.” The Jam Factory reveals the rolling, contemplative landscapes of Rosie’s world from 15th January 2020.

Curated by Eleanor Monk

14 Jan 2020

THE BOILER ROOM GALLERY

The Jam Factory presents 'UNSEEN', a unique collaborative exhibition by the Arts Team.

Sebastian Volak | Oliver Shrieve | Hannah Ross | Lea Bozic | Andres Nava | Siân Klein | Rebekah Whittingham | Zoe Harding

Exhibition Dates:
14th January - 1st March 2020
The Boiler Room Gallery

Opening Night:
Monday 13th January, 7-9pm
Free and welcome to all!

In this first of its kind event, the interns come together to showcase their mixed palette of skills, driven by a single shared passion. 'UNSEEN' brings to light the seldom-seen work of those who spend their time behind the scenes of the popular exhibitions at the Jam Factory.

Displaying a diverse array of disciplines ranging from photography to mixed media to 19th-century drawing, 'UNSEEN' is as much a collage of talents and interests as it is a representation of the vibrancy of modern art. Don’t miss this opportunity to see the best of the best of The Jam Factory’s Arts Team.

Curated by the artists, supported by Eleanor Monk.

08 Jan 2020

THE SMALL AND LARGE GALLERY

The Jam Factory presents 'Carving Light' by David Parrott, an Oxford based artist skilfully exploring how light interacts with our surroundings through a range of media.

Exhibition Dates:
8th January – 19th February
Small & Large Galleries

With his solo exhibition ‘Carving Light’, David Parrott captures scenes of ephemeral light found in our City and surrounding countryside, using traditional tools coupled with contemporary techniques. In this body of work Parrott carves a blanket of light onto canvas and paper, with a depth and glow that can only be achieved by those deeply familiar with how it moves, wrapping around a surface as it pours towards us. The exhibition invites you to explore the flow of light through realism to abstraction, skilfully using shadow and contrast to play with perspective.

Parrott uses graphite, charcoal and ink for preliminary studies, attempting to capture the most salient lines and shades, before developing these sketches into monoprints or monotypes. This process enables him to return to the scene to paint the more fleeting aspects of nature. The works exhibited explore Oxford’s ancient trade routes, canals, rivers, paths, bridges and local woods in search of new and often undiscovered motifs, all with an emphasis on the natural environment. The artist’s recent focus on landscapes is influenced by the growing threat to natural spaces, particularly in an increasingly urbanised England, with a rapidly growing population and building projects shooting up on protected green-field sites. Admire the beauty of these threatened environments in ‘Carving Light’, at The Jam Factory until the 19th of February.

Curated by Eleanor Monk
 

27 Nov 2019

THE BOILER ROOM GALLERY

The Jam Factory presents 'Reflections in Colour; by Jon Rowland, an acclaimed painter whose colourful and distinctive work is grounded in 'place'.

Exhibition Dates:
27th November 2019 - 12th January 2020

Rowland's work in various places, including Provence with its Mediterranean sunshine, has enabled him to explore the complementarities, juxtapositions, hues and depths of colour. A recent visit to Sicily reinforced this approach to colour and vibrancy. There, the bright pinks, yellows and turquoise of the landscape and the richness of the 'place' itself have been important in gradually changing his palette. The artist has taken a more emotional approach to abstraction in the exhibited body of work, featuring some of the most recent expression of this personal 'place'.

Curated by Eleanor Monk

20 Nov 2019

THE RESTAURANT GALLERY

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The Jam Factory presents 'Vibrant Living', a collection of work by award-winning artist and illustrator Charlotte Orr.

Artist Evening:
Monday 25th November, 6-8pm, FREE
Restaurant Gallery

Exhibition dates:
20th November 2019 - 13th January 2020

With 'Vibrant Living' Charlotte Orr returns to touched upon themes of architecture and nature in a series of emotive and colourful works, open at The Jam Factory from the 20th of November. Primarily exploring daily life in the cities she spends time in - notably Berlin, London and Oxford - Orr shows us the ever varying urban scenery via contrasting works that depict grey skylines canopied by towering cranes, or a bright and peaceful garden dotted with potted trees. Discover a harmony between nature and cityscapes amongst the live plants of The Jam Factory restaurant gallery.

The Jam Factory are pleased to unveil a unique mural inspired by Oxford Botanic Gardens and Kew Gardens in conjunction with the exhibition.

Curated by Eleanor Monk

13 Nov 2019

SMALL AND LARGE GALLERY

The Jam Factory presents Original Works by Jessie Woodward in our Small & Large Galleries this winter.

Exhibition dates:
13th November 2019 - 5th January 2020

Bristol based artist Jessie Woodward is an abstract painter using mixed media to explore the concept of spontaneity in her practice. Bright, fun and experimental, the body of work to be exhibited at The Jam Factory generates visual energetic joy and pleasure through the use of unusual materials and techniques. Lively compositions of fluorescent paints, glitter and various drawing materials dance with each other on white factory walls, inviting us to join the party this festive season.

Woodward improvises in response to the dynamics created when colours in different marks, textures and ratios are set with and against each other. The process is an intrinsic part of the painting, scratching into paint, layering, adding and taking away, to make each piece vividly unique. Surround yourself with positive energy at The Jam Factory this winter, with ‘Original Works by Jessie Woodward’.

Curated by Eleanor Monk

15 Oct 2019

THE BOILER ROOM GALLERY

The Jam Factory and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities present 'Beyond the Body: a portrait of autopsy'.

Artist Evening:
Sunday 20th October, 6-8pm, FREE


Exhibition dates:
16th October - 25th November 2019

Recognised as ‘learning from the dead’, autopsy has been of significant importance to medicine and science, but often a painful concern of the living.

‘Beyond the body: a portrait of autopsy’ is an art exhibition inspired by narratives of people involved in post mortem procedures depicting ethical dilemmas presented by the practice of examining the body across different cultures.

The artwork interprets the difficult questions posed, and brings a new perspective on autopsy through imaginative and creative visions. A pathologist asking, if the rights of the
living to know the cause of death supersede the rights of the deceased to keep their secrets. A Buddhist priest discussing five elements determining stages of death, but also the
universe. A scientist introducing less invasive autopsy in children to minimise body disfigurement, describing difficult conversations with grieving parents, amongst others…

The exhibition is a collaborative project between social scientist Halina Suwalowska (Exeter College, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford) and artist Anna Suwalowska (Royal College of Art).

The exhibition is organised by the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities.

Curated by Eleanor Monk.

01 Oct 2019

RESTAURANT GALLERY 

The Jam Factory presents 'Geometry of Feeling', the first solo exhibition of young photographer Reuben Worlledge.

Artist Evening:
Sunday 13th October, 6-8pm, FREE

Exhibition dates:
2nd October - 18th November 2019

[Architecture] 'articulates the experience of our being in the world and strengthens our sense of reality and self.'
- Juhani Pallasmaa

Photographer Reuben Worlledge observes a rare, harmonious silence amongst the noise of urban cityscapes. This black and white series explores how buildings and spaces organise our urban landscapes to create landmarks, patterns and geometric shapes. The features of his work are mirrored in the exposed structure of The Jam Factory Gallery, where 'Geometry of Feeling' will become part of the architecture, from 2nd October 2019.

Curated by Eleanor Monk

24 Sep 2019

SMALL & LARGE GALLERY

The Jam Factory present 'Landscape Conversations', the first solo exhibition of our selected 2019 graduate Imogen Nokes.

Artist Evening:
Sunday 6th October, 6-8pm, FREE

Exhibition dates:
25th September - 11th November 2019

Recent Oxford Brookes graduate Imogen Nokes creates vibrant screenprints and paintings that fluctuate between abstraction and representation, in an exploration of horizon lines.

Her multi-media compositions use light and colour to explore the natural dialogue of man-made and natural elements in our landscape. The lines of a pathway or hedge intersect before the vanishing point, as a beam of sunlight blurs the boundaries of perspective with one stroke of a squeegee.

Let 'Landscape Conversations' lead you into an exploration of contemporary painting, at The Jam Factory until 11th November.

Curated by Eleanor Monk

02 Sep 2019

THE BOILER ROOM GALLERY

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University of Oxford, Oxford University Innovation & The Jam Factory present 'Learning Nature: A machine's exploration of our world'

Exhibition dates:
3rd September - 14th October 2019

Artists:
Jake Elwes, Sofia Crespo & Helena Sarin


Applications of artificial intelligence (AI) are now widespread throughout our lives. Recommendation systems suggest us new products to buy, facial recognition checks our identity at the airport gate and voice recognition systems power our conversations with Alexa.

The visual arts are no different - a number of artists are now exploring the creative potential of these AI techniques to evolve their artistic practice and test the limits of the technology. This group exhibition at The Jam Factory sees Helena Sarin, Sofia Crespo and Jake Elwes tackle the theme of nature with AI technology, reinterpreting flower still lives, inventing new types of sea creatures and generating images of marsh birds for display in a tidal landscape.

The exhibition is part of AI@Oxford, The University of Oxford’s first major international conference on Artificial Intelligence. Imagine the future of art in the setting of a Victorian factory turned gallery, with 'Learning Nature: A machine's exploration of our world' at The Jam Factory until 14th October.


Curated by Luba Elliott

20 Aug 2019

RESTAURANT GALLERY

The Jam Factory presents 'The Art of CUTS', an exhibition of movie posters by Oxford's Cinema Under the Stairs.

Designs by Salvador Lavado of Salvador Design.

Artist Evening: Sunday 1st September, 6-8pm, FREE

Exhibition dates:
21st August - 30th September 2019

Oxford underground cinema club ‘Cinema Under the Stairs’ is made up of a group of self-described ‘odd Dads from Botley’ operating monthly ritual screenings for local film lovers from the city’s most interesting venues. From late August The Jam Factory will join the mix, with an exhibition of the club’s most iconic posters, and monthly screenings in our Boiler Room Gallery, where Frank Cooper used to boil his world-famous marmalade.

Illustrator and graphic designer Salvador Lavado digitally illustrates each poster in one sitting over the course of an evening. The artist describes them as ‘honest, undiluted and a little rough around the edges. Like CUTS, like my friends.’

Enjoy them yourself with a cold pint in hand at The Jam Factory until 30th September, and keep your eyes peeled for edgy CUTS screenings!

Tickets to film screenings here:
http://www.cinemaunderthestairs.com/

30 Jul 2019

SMALL & LARGE GALLERY 

The Jam Factory presents 'Where The Wild Thyme Grows', showcasing the botanical paintings of Elaine Kazimierczuk, Julie-Ann Simpson and Rosie Phipps.

Artist Evening: Sunday 11th August, 6-8pm, FREE

Exhibition dates:
31st July – 23rd September 2019

The dreamy botanical scenes of a Midsummer Night’s Dream can be found here amongst The Jam Factory's many resident plants.

Scottish painter Julie-Ann Simpson joins Oxford’s own artists Elaine Kazimierczuk and Rosie Phipps to bring us fanciful, bright paintings of flowers and plant life in the unique personal styles of each artist. United by their summery colour palettes and playful experiments with perspective, the works are full of energy yet calm, otherworldly yet vivid, and harmonious yet striking. Each work embodies the sheer joy of a beautiful summer’s day coming to a close.. Be lulled by these flowers with a gin in hand, at The Jam Factory until 23rd September.

16 Jul 2019

BOILER ROOM GALLERY

The Jam Factory presents '1+1=1' by Jonathan Shapley, Oxford Open Winner 2019

Artist Evening: 22nd July, 6-8pm, FREE

Exhibition dates:
17th July – 1st September 2019

Oxford based photographer and artist Jonathan Shapley was the winner of this year’s Oxford Open, voted by a high profile panel including Dr Stephanie Straine, Curator at Modern Art Oxford, Esther Lafferty of Oxfordshire Artweeks, Dr Larry Lynch from Oxford Brookes University, BBC Radio presenter Laurie Bailey and artist/author Mark Haddon.

‘1+1=1’ explores visual relationships and intersections through a series of photographic diptychs, creating harmony where there is conflict. The inhabited is uninhabited, inside is outside, the urban is rural and two become one in ‘1+1=1’. See what all the fuss is about your self, at The Jam Factory until 1st September 2019.

09 Jul 2019

RESTAURANT GALLERY

The Jam Factory presents 'Vivid' by Jane McCall

Artist Evening: 14th July, 6-8pm, FREE

Exhibition dates:
10th July - 19th August 2019

The lines and journeys of our landscape fascinate artist Jane McCall. ‘Following a pathway, a hedgerow punctuated by a plastic chair or greenhouse defines a marriage between nature and us. I wonder how the boundaries have moved and changed over centuries, what stories have been told and what lives have been lived.’ She responds with large, invigorating paintings in layers of vivid colour that provide their own radiant light, on even the greyest of summer days.

Enjoy a Pimms or homemade lemonade surrounded by the garden landscapes we love so much, rain or shine with ‘Vivid’ by Jane McCall, at The Jam Factory until 19th August.

11 Jun 2019

Small & Large Gallery
12th June 2019 – 23rd July 2019

Carter Jonas presents a photographic collection of exceptional architecture in Oxfordshire.

Whether it is the intricate ceiling in an historic building or the rainscreen cladding of a contemporary industrial unit, the quality of the design is appreciated through the development of the detail from the first idea to its technical development and final execution.

The exhibition is a testament to Carter Jonas’ endeavour to provide an excellent level of attention to detail on an eclectic range of projects.

10 Jun 2019

BOILER ROOM GALLERY 

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The Jam Factory presents 'Still Life' by Amy Oliver

Artist Evening: 30th June, 6-8pm, FREE

Exhibition dates:
11th June - 17th July 2019

Internationally exhibited artist and photographer Amy Oliver uses mannequins and her own sculptures to draw upon narratives from the female perspective, based on her own experiences of women’s rights and identity, domestic violence, mental health and invisible illness. ‘Still Life’ by Amy Oliver is very much a depiction of the frangible and durable elements of real life as a woman. Take a moment to be still and reflect on this hauntingly beautiful show, at The Jam Factory until 17th July.

06 May 2019

RESTURANT GALLERY 
 

The Jam Factory presents Laura Sayers: A Time For Every Purpose

Artists Evening: 19th May, 6-8pm

Exhibition dates:
7th May - 8th July 2019

'A Time For Every Purpose' collates new and selected recent works from London based illustrator and paper artist Laura Sayers. The exhibition leans on the theme of celebrating the mundane, presenting illustrated scenes that explore the spaces around us, comment on the human condition, and present different character personalities as a reflection of the everyday.

16 Apr 2019

BOILER ROOM GALLERY & LARGE AND SMALL GALLERY 

With over 40 exhibiting artists, the white bricks and mortar of The Jam Factory will be home to a diverse array of artistic talent selected from our annual Open Call. Our mission to support local art is part of the foundations of The Jam Factory Gallery, with innovative new work consistently refurbishing our 116 year old walls.

Exhibition: 17th April - 9th June 2019

Artists Evening: 22nd April, 6-8pm
Free and accessible to all!
 

Curated by Eleanor Monk.

06 Mar 2019

RESTAURANT GALLERY
6th March - May 5th 

Slade graduate Anthea Richards brings colour, energy and fun to The Jam Factory, with a series of experimental prints exhibited in her upcoming show ‘Playing with Print’.
 With many on the prints depicting movement of the human form, you can expect to be caught in a whirlwind of expressive marks and textures. To quote one of the artworks, you may find yourselves ‘Caught in an Image’.
 Come along to the Artist’s Evening on the 10th of March to meet the artist, and pop in to see the show over drinks or a delicious meal between the 6th of March and the 5th of May.

05 Mar 2019

THE LARGE & SMALL GALLERY 

With unseasonal sun and temperatures causing a stir this month, Alison Walters brings ‘Fire & Ice’ to The Jam Factory Gallery at just the right time. Her series of brightly coloured abstract paintings reveal a somewhat unsettling inspiration: how global warming is igniting the devastating power of the natural world around us. ‘Fire & Ice’ explores the sublime beauty, power and pain many of us are seeing around us currently, particularly inspired by the artist’s travels to Poland and Dorset. Visit the show from the 5th of March to the 14th of April, and meet the artist at this free event on Sunday 17th of March to talk all things bright and geological.

26 Feb 2019

BOILER ROOM GALLERY

Who are the LiterArties? The clue must be in the name. Comprised entirely of published authors, LiterArties are a group of writer-artists stemming from the Writers in Oxford society, which is championed by Phillip Pullman. In only their first year of exhibiting, they have six exhibitions lined up in and around Oxfordshire that merge colour and form with word, the first of which is coming to The Jam Factory on the 27th of February 2019. Made up of Karen French, Debrah Martin, Alan Kestner, Kamal Lathar, Rosie Phipps, Kay Jamieson, Maeve Bayton, Ann Warren and Dennis Hamley, the unique LiterArties debut exhibition is one to be sure not to miss.

As both writers and artists, LiterArties seek to encourage multi-dimensional creativity by writing, painting, visualising and understanding – in both imagination and general perception. As a diverse sub-group of Writers in Oxford, they soon found a common vision: to encourage others to develop their own creativity. Interactive talks and workshops are an integral part of the exhibition model, bringing artistic inspiration to the local community with several events displayed on The Jam Factory website.

In the words of the artists, “Come and join in the story. Come and create the next image. Come and be carried away by your own creativity…”

15 Jan 2019

This January Homeless Oxfordshire will be showcasing resident’s photography work and dispelling the myths around homelessness in The Jam Factory’s Boiler Room.

“Below the Spires” will exhibit shots of Oxford City, showing what life looks like as a homeless person in the county. All the photos have been taken by residents on disposable cameras.

Exhibition runs from the 15th January 2019 - 25th February 2019.

15 Jan 2019

James Taylor is an illustrator and photographer based in Oxfordshire, England, who loves to create quirky and colourful illustrations and prints.

This exhibition will be up in our Small and Large Gallery 15th January 2019 - 4th March 2019.

09 Jan 2019

A very special exhibition of paintings by local artist Jabi Egaña Ojeda.

Jabi searches for images taken of conventional day to day life, specifically from the different communities and cultures he has experienced, and introduces an element of the surreal by editing, adding or erasing elements of the original image to create new contexts and draw comparisons to the larger issues affecting our society. He is drawn to the idea of our seemingly innate desire to be greater than what came before, whilst at the same time ignoring the issues that have plagued humanity for generations.

This exhibition runs from the 9th January 2019 - 5th March 2019

27 Nov 2018

Exhibition runs from 27th November 2018 - 15th January 2019 in our Small and Large Gallery and Boiler Room Gallery.

Landmarks is a group exhibition that showcases six contemporary artists; Sandra Hoeft, Sally Holman Liz Hough, Simon Nash, Jacqui Porter and Viviana Riccelli, who all live far apart but who have bonded through their love of painting, drawing and abstracting from nature.
 

30 Oct 2018

This exhibition is open from the 30th October 2018 - 8th January 2019, in our Resturant Gallery.
Rebecca Gilpin, otherwise known as Bex is a painter originally from London, now living and studying in heart of Oxford. 

Rebecca paints because she enjoys being immersed in the pleasure of the physicality of the medium. As a musician (bass player) she tries to keep with her medium of sound, in a way that means the colour and scale of the work somehow reflects the acoustic dimension of her world. Colour and its impact live with her. As someone for whom every day is a journey, through a jumble of colour, sound and the sensibilities of communication 
Rebecca wants her work to bring energy and joy to others. 

Her work aims to provoke the same sensations that listening to powerful music and evoke. 

29 Oct 2018

This week it's CIDERFEST at the Jam Factory and we are celebrating local cider crafted by the Cotswold Cider Company by featuring our pick of the best seasonal cider on offer from fruit-infused, chai spiced, and even some with freaky Halloweeny feel. We are also exhibiting some frightfully brilliant brand artwork created by Lee Hiom Design in collaboration with Cotswold Cider Co-founder and cider maker Rory Souter.

Inspired by popular culture, their intention was to create unique, playful cider experience built on stories intrinsically linked to the cider inside, experiences that would force a reappraisal of cider - a noble drink with a bad rep.

CIDERFEST runs all week ending with a big ol' CIDERJAM 'hoedown' on Sunday November 4th.

03 Oct 2018

The Oxford Open: Fine Art is an exhibition that celebrates Oxford’s up and coming, brightest and finest, fine artists. This exhibition is situated in our Large and Small Gallery and showcases ten artists. 

Fine Artists include Annie McGrath, Antoinette Ibsen, Emma Donaldson, Helen Young, Jeremy Morgan, Kate Aries, Kay Jemieson, Rona, Sheila Peterson and, Silvia Schaumloeffel. 

This exhibition runs from the 4th October 2018 to the 27th of November 2018

24 Sep 2018

Chelsea Brown and Mike Halliwell

Boiler Room Gallery

25th September 2018 - 26th November 2018 

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Chelsea Brown

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Chelsea Brown is an artist from San Francisco, currently living in Oxford. Put plainly, she researches the stories of both historical and mythological women, and through her work seeks to emancipate and communicate their power that may have otherwise been suppressed by patriarchal constructs. She creates drawings, paintings, and wearable pieces, and uses a variety of mediums from gouache to graphite. Chelsea has exhibited her work in a number of exhibitions and has done work for clients from small businesses to fashion publications, to painting trousers for her mom. She loves archaeological wonders, cheese products, and articulate blaspheme. 

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Mike Halliwell

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Mike Halliwell is an Illustrator, Designer, Artist and Lecturer based in Oxford.

Originally working in live music performance and production, Mike studied degree and postgraduate architecture in Oxford before working in international design firms in London, Bristol, and Bath. Returning to Oxford in 2016 after an MA in Illustration at UCA Farnham, he now splits his time between lecturing in Research-Led Design at the Oxford School of Architecture and his own cross-disciplinary creative practice taking-on collaborative special projects ranging from Architecture to book design and illustration.

29 Aug 2018

Photography by Natalia Kutsepova "See how a man is doing a thing. You will then be in a position to see what he is really trying to do." - Idries Shah, "Reflections", 1968 "Endeavourneverland" is a set of photographs taken in Oxford in the fall of 2017 during the filming of ITV's "Endeavour" series. Why look in? Art and people that captivate us can turn our love into a demanding verb: to make sense of why "Endeavour" affected me like it did, I took my camera - an eye, a translator - and went to Oxford. The making of a thing is as important as the thing itself; observing the process of making reveals, more often than not, what might not be seen otherwise. Each a fleeting, just barely captured moment, these images are neither quite reality nor yet fiction, indeed a neverland - felt, but rarely observed territories between Oxford of half a century ago and the city we know, between the time of the story and now, between the actors and the characters they inhabit, between the characters and ourselves. The photographs are an attempt to take the in-betweens from ineffable to visible. How we perceive and use a story is unique to our set of needs and capabilities; through my lens, the visual language of the process was very clear - crime-solving plots aside, "Endeavour" is a teaching story: non-didactic yet very insistent, if not harsh, in pointing the viewer inward, to a more aware self. It's exactly in the in-betweens, quietly, that its most important tasks are accomplished. Others might read the images differently and disagree, but art is as much about the joy of commonality as it's about differences - each of us has a neverland, and yet we sail in each other's seas. With warmth, to Shaun Evans and Nina Kharchenko. With gratitude, to the creators, cast and crew of "Endeavour".

With very special thanks, to Katrin Dahlmann and the "Endeavour" community of Twitter and Facebook.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/endeavourneverland
Twitter: @te_angeli
Prints available for purchase at: www.endeavournever.land/prints Inquiries: 2947@endeavournever.land

25 Jul 2018

Oxford Open: Illustrators 

Boiler Room

26th July 2018 - 24th of September 2018 

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The Oxford Illustrator's Open Call is an exhibition dedicated to Oxford's brightest and finest illustrators. This exhibition is situated in the Boiler Room Gallery and showcases a dozen illustrators based within Oxfordshire. 

Illustrators include Mike Halliwell, Chelsea Brow, Widget, Manon Daisy Franklin-Fraiture, Dom Culverwell, Joe Haddock, Laura Sayers, Lilly Trotter, James Taylor, and Chase Marsden 

18 Jul 2018

Simon East is an Oxford-based painter and printmaker working with various themes, and using styles both figurative and abstract. He has exhibited in numerous shows in and around Oxford, led linocut workshops, and has taken part in Sky TV’s Landscape Artist of the Year “paint-off” competition.

The current exhibition includes works from the different phases, styles and mediums of Simon’s career so far. With his large abstract canvases, Simon builds up multiple layers of paint and texture mediums in order to evoke a rich sense of texture and depth and absorb the observer fully into the aesthetic experience. With his figurative work he seeks to abstract or distil the subject matter so as to provoke a compelling new perspective on it. Simon currently accepts commissions in abstract pouring art.

He is an exhibiting member of the Oxford Printmakers’ Co-operative on Tyndale Road, has recently completed a novel, and is also a molecular biology PhD and neuroscience tutor at Oxford University.

www.simon-east.co.uk

10 Jul 2018

The Nature in the City exhibition showcases the best works of art by the public who entered the "Nature in the City" competition, which was judged by a panel of independent judges from the world of art.

The artists were challenged to use their creative talents to highlight the brilliance of urban nature and help us to raise awareness of the plight of the iconic swift. Swifts have declined by over 50% between 1996 and 2016. This decline is due to a loss of nestspace in buildings, due to renovations of old buildings and the unsuitability of modern buildings. It is also due a fall in the number of insects, the primary food of swifts. 

Nature in the City is part of an exciting two-year Oxford Swift City project, led by the RSPB and made possible through the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund. You can find out how to get involved with saving swifts by visiting our project webpage: https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/conservation/projects/oxford-swift-city/

The Oxford Swift City project team is made up of several local partners including the RSPB, the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust, Environmental Resource Management, Dr A. Lack, Dr J. Hughes, Mr C. Mason, Oxford City Council, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre and the University of Oxford.

06 Jun 2018

The Revolution of Dignity! is a group exhibition by photographers from across Europe, showcasing the events of Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution as they unfurled and the effect it has had. The photographs capture the movements hope and community spirit, as well as the  violence and loss that occurred after government-hired snipers open fired at protestors. The exhibition invites the viewer to reflect on the period, and see how Kyiv’s young activists are still keeping the movement going, whilst in the Eastern region of Donbas, war wages on. 

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Throughout the shows seven week run, there will be talks from activists and key figures that took part in the revolution. The exhibition is in collaboration with GoGlobal to raise money for their project GoCamp, an NGO funded volunteer program for Ukrainian youth, aiming to increase communication between Ukraine and the rest of Europe. The EuroMaidan revolution.

05 Jun 2018

Stormy Nights Solo Drawing Exhibition 

Restaurant Gallery

6th June – 18th July 2018

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Corn Shuk Mei Ho granduted from Masters of Fine Arts program (with Merit) at the University of Arts London, Wimbledon College of Arts (2014-2016). She has a BA (with Honours) in Fine Art (Contemporary Studio Art Practise) and minored in French Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2007-2010). She now lives and works in London, UK.

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Often exploring psychological themes, her artworks delve into deeper levels of human innermost states of mind. She creates atmospheric, melancholic drawings/paintings conjuring up feelings of dislocation. Her drawings/paintings document her interest in the lost and found, what is passing memory and what is synthesised as trace in the landscape.

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Corn has had solo exhibitions and joint exhibitions in the UK and Hong Kong, and her works have been privately collected. She will have solo shoes in the Jam Factory Gallery, Oxford in early June and the Coiningby Gallery, London in mid-September 2018.

Edvard Munch, Stormy Night, 1893

“The dramatic natural event of the storm, the sharp contrast between bright windows of the house (promising security) and the immeasurable depths of the dark night  - in other words, an account of physical actuality – have been refashioned into an image of inner tension and conflict.”

In “Stormy Nights” Solo Drawing Exhibition, Corn Shuk Mei Ho has selected three series of works to exhibit in the Restaurant Gallery in the Jam Factory, Oxford.

1) Night Swims Series (2017-18) 

2) The End of F***ing World illustration (2018) 


3) Dear Lily Series (2016)

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These three series of drawings  are related to the young adults inner struggles and unlimited imaginations. They are all about youth, courage, ideology, loss and then their own stories. These groups of young individuals still possess the imagination of younger children. Still in the pursuit of an ‘ideal world’, an ‘adult world’ caused them to lose out on opportunities countless times. Once they pass through the darkness however, they find themselves emerging from the storm and seeing the world more clearly.

04 Jun 2018

Having trained as an artist at the Ruskin School of Fine Art  between 1960 and 1963, when the school was based in the Ashmolean Museum.

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Imre Maltzahn was introduced to early Greek and Roman portrait sculpture. Life drawing was of course the basic skill taught to enable him to draw ancient sculpture, a passion which never left him.

He worked for Christies for a short period and in 1966 opened a gallery (Maltzahn Gallery) in Cork Street, London. The gallery specialised in prints and drawings of all periods and was also at the centre of selling 'pop art' then at the height of its' development.

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Although the gallery closed in 1976 he continued to keep his 'eye' in by constant study of the Masters and took up drawing and watercolours  again seriously in 2016 going back to his roots in the Ashmolean cast gallery as well as exercising draughtsmanship in the weekly sessions in the Jam Factory.

25 Apr 2018

Our annual Oxfordshire Art Weeks exhibition showcases over 25 artists in all three of our gallery spaces: The Large + Small, Boiler Room and Restaurant Gallery. 

The Oxfordshire Art Weeks exhibition gives local artists an opportunity to showcase their work in a professional environment and features members of The Jam Factory staff.  The art work in this exhibition ranges from photography, 3D work to oil paintings. 
 
This exhibition features pieces of art from artist such as Alison Walters, Billy Barraclough, Chelsea Brown, Ellen Hausner, Ellen Wong, Helen Young, Isabel Quadrado, Izzy Twist, Jabi Engana, Kate Morris Millar, Mike Halliwell and many other talented creative beings.
 
The exhibition is open from the 26th April 2018 - 4th June 2018, Monday to Sunday.

08 Mar 2018

As part of the Oxford International Women’s Festival 2018 and International Women’s Day 2018, a new art exhibition on the theme of female experience, HATCHED 2018, will showcase work by local and global artists from 8 March to 23 April 2018 at the Jam Factory, Oxford.Using a variety of media, including photography, performance, painting, sculpture, and video, over 23 artists have engaged with this year’s theme, Suffrage: 100 Years On! #PressForProgress, to accelerate gender parity.

HATCHED 2018 is a creative platform set up by artist and curator Maga Esberg in 2015 to develop, create and promote art addressing private and public female experience. The platform allows individual voices to collaborate and to gather strength and momentum.

25 Jan 2018

Harriet Elkerton

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Harriet Elkerton’s objects, with their unassuming simplicity, are designed for living. Natural materials, plants and food play a key role in this lifestyle.

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Her functional objects are slip-cast porcelain, with unctuous glossy white glazed interiors. Originating from paper, instability is established in the process, resulting in organic forms. Harriet sets up moments of unexpectedness, to get a handmade feel, an individuality, from repetition.

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Her decorative ware, displayed nestles amongst the functional, interrogates the purpose of tools and functional items. She combines found objects, with purpose – made porcelain additions. The inheritance of these objects discernible in her functional vessels; there is a language of deliberate skill speaking through her work and a desire to keep visible the hand of the maker. 

FICH Ceramics

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Fi Chappelle is the maker behind FICH ceramics. All her work is hand-thrown in her home studio in Oxfordshire on a pottery wheel. FICH ceramics is a contemporary brand with each piece adding elegance and style into your home.

Fi emphasises the contrast between the matte white earthenware clay and the smooth, reflective glaze by only partly glazing the pieces. The FICH colour palette changes seasonally creating a look that adapts with time. This has given the brand a unique style and keeps FICH looking contemporary. 

10 Jan 2018

Jessamy Hawke is an illustrator working in ink, gouache, watercolour, and linocut-printmaking, having graduated from MA Illustration at Kingston University in 2016. Her work draws on the two themes of literature and landscape, where she is interested in connecting drawing with poetry and literature, as well as using illustration and hand-drawn maps to document her experience of a landscape.

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Much of Jessamy’s work uses novels and poems as starting points to create visually striking interpretations of the writer’s narrative. By visualising the characters, landscape, and storyline set out by the author, she aims to convey the atmosphere, and give the viewer a sense of the story and it’s backdrop to add another layer to the narrative.

In her landscape work she aims to translate walking and experience of a place into drawing and painting. By sketching on-site at various locations across the UK, Jessamy paints scenes to capture her experience, document her route, and reference the landscape’s texture, architecture, and history. With her illustrations, maps, and paintings, she wants to engage the viewer with the landscape as she portrayed it.

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Jessamy’s project ‘A Midnight Clear’, based on William Wharton’s wartime novel, was shortlisted for the 2016 V&A Student Illustrator of the Year Award, and her magazine illustration was Runner-Up in the Little White Lies Creative Brief competition in March 2017. She regularly takes on commissions, including landscapes, cityscapes, and maps.

06 Jan 2018

'Visual Conversations' is an exhibition of work by artist-teachers, currently focusing on establishing and developing their artist identities. Themes such as lost memories, sense of place and landscape are explored through sketch book entries, still life photography, mixed media and paint.  

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The thread of conversation and dialogue runs through the work in determining meaning, inspiring making or developing reflective thought. The exhibition theme also acknowledges the supportive dialogue that has evolved within the group as they have developed their own artistic practices.

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This group exhibition will feature work by Ali Moreton, Hannah Kinch James, Laura Hodgson, Monica Lewis and Sally Gunnett. 

12 Dec 2017

A collective of 12 talented UK based artists are showing their work in Frank Cooper’s old Marmalade factory from 12 December 2017 to 23 January 2018.

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The Jam Factory welcomed applications from people of all backgrounds in this creative call out. There is no theme to the exhibition - it was left open to encourage a diverse response. ‘Milk and Marmalade’ centres on celebrating the eclectic mix of mediums on show and the individuals involved. 

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This group exhibition will feature work by Wendy Aldiss, Ell Bailey, Chelsea Brown, Sylvan Cruz, Jane Duff, Manon Daisy Franklin-Fraiture, Mike Halliwell, Polly Pincott, Nikita Norris, Javier Egaña Ojeda, Rona and Thomas White. 

All are welcome at The Jam Factory on 17 December, 6-8pm to the public preview of Milk and Marmalade.

22 Nov 2017

Joanna Billingham 

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This group of small watercolours and digital images develops Joanna Billingham’s fascination with forms which are simultaneously appealing and unnerving; plant like forms and shadowed shapes seem to sprout, balance, writhe and meet in a world of gothic fairytales and Folk Art. The resulting hybrids and mutations suggest a point where the familiar collides with the strange. Objects awkwardly shift - half seen in the picture frame - offering  a sense of anticipation as though the drama is about to occur, or may have recently past, as we stumble onto the metaphysical scene of events.

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Matt Black 

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Matt Black is interested in going beyond the surface of things to discover. His work seeks to create openings that allow new interpretations and meaningful connections to flow.

Through a process of mapping, plotting and tracking via mark making he seeks to translate illusory in-between spaces often using film and fiction as starting points. These spaces being interpreted reside outside our own temporal realities - psychological states and physical spaces are in flux. At times the results appear to reflect a disorientating network akin to the digital realm.

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Julie Smith

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Julie's artwork dwells on qualities of quietness and intimacy, cherishing the extraordinary that lies within the ordinary. 

“I am inspired by the act of collecting; both physical gathering and the accumulation of thoughts.  This is reflected in the materials I choose.  I am interested in considering traditional methods through my work. I seek to provoke a balance between a contemplative experience and a sense of fun.  Key threads within my practice include fragility, protection and preservation.”

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Her work celebrates the time and looking absorbed in the act of making.  Art residencies are also part of her work that often can take her in directions that are initially unexpected but remain informed by the act of observing and doing.  These have included the Voltaire Room, Oxford, Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage and Woodchester Mansion, Woodchester and the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Chippenham.

She also makes “I call them begin” handmade notebooks, sketchbooks, and journals using traditional book binding methods.

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Rebecca Spicer 

Rebecca Spicer is interested in the Landscape and what makes her human; she has begun to find allegorical and metaphorical ways of portraying the figure in a particular place without being too literal. To explore the feelings of isolation or integration, of confrontation through considering the pebbles on the beach or document the effect of the wind as it passes by, rather than depict the figure in the landscape itself. Her personal memories, sounds, feelings and words are vital as she records these through her drawings. Place is key, and she has chosen to record through sensory experience in drawing, film, photography and sound recordings, the essence of a place that Rebecca has known since childhood and has particular resonance for her - such as, the Ceibwr Bay, Pembrokeshire. In this case the Landscape, the environment she is in, the elements and time become valuable sources. The colours she uses are evocative of that place, directly connected to the stones and pebbles, the sky and the sea. To play with perspective allows Rebecca numerous possibilities; consequently balance and counterbalance, being inside or outside, surface and skin, scale and time. The internal space of a drawing will incorporate the idea of a relationship with the place such as: containment or confinement or freedom or security, employing the emotional state, such as anxiety or joy, whilst considering the metaphysical, the idea of here and now, being mortal or immortal. The legacy of the Landscape artists’ consideration of sublime, in direct contrast to the romantic visual observance of a place, has continued to fascinate her.

14 Nov 2017

The content of Elena Cremona’s work centres on environmental and landscape coverage, as well as social-documentary photography: bringing the issues which surround Climate Change into focus. ‘Uncertain States’ is a reminder of our fragile Earth, a homage to Mother Earth, and, she hopes, ‘an appreciation to the core elements which make up our beautiful planet’. 

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Elena uses her photographic work as a tool to allow her to understand better, let go of the past and create a sense of awareness and respect for our irreplaceable landscapes. In doing so, she attempts to challenge the mind of society, and to evoke an emotional and tactile connection between humanity and nature. 

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Elena admits that she finds it hard to understand life and society, to make sense of it all, to make sense of the system we are born into; a system she considers driven by power, money and exploitation, and where greed seems to be put above the wellbeing of our planet. Considering this, she asserts, ‘society is ignorance, but nature is bliss’.

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The emotions linked to her memory constantly fade. The inspiration of these emotions is what leads Elena to the act of photography, with each photograph being as unique as the memory that inspired it. The consequence of her creative process disrupts, makes conscious and redraws invisible lines. Thus, she is reminded that though life moves forward and leaves behind memories, through her art she is making sense and creating permanence with her memories if the photographs she takes.

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Elena Cremona’s unique photographs are hand-printed in a colour darkroom. In this exhibition, the viewer is invited to share in her uncertain states and vulnerabilities, through her photographs of seemingly untouched corners of Earth. 

Her solo exhibition ‘Uncertain States’  will show selected series’ of environmental and landscape documentary photography in the Restaurant Gallery until 8 January.

18 Oct 2017

Marcelina Amelia is a contemporary artist, working with mixed media approaches to print, painting and drawing. Amelia draws inspiration from her Polish heritage, looking to religious iconography and folk tales, as well as childhood memories, the power of dreams, sexuality, and the human condition. Her work plays at the tense borders between lust and innocence, creating an uneasy aesthetic that is delightfully difficult to pin down. Looking to the triangular relationship between cities, the natural world, and human involvement, Amelia’s work is saturated with contemplation and profundity, which is expressed in the beauty of her aesthetic. She has been featured in publications including Booooooom, Digital Arts, Art Wednesday, Vogue and Ballad Of Magazine. She exhibited at D&AD, New Designers, London Design Festival, London Illustration Fair and took part in Faberge’s Big Egg Hunt. You can find her work in Print Club London, Art Republic, Atom Gallery in London, and in Bohema Nowa Sztuka, Pragaleria and Polish Poster Gallery in Poland.

16 Oct 2017

Life Enhancing is a group of artists active in life drawing. We believe the art produced in life sessions has a special power and freshness that conventional nudes lack. 

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In this exhibition at the Jam Factory, ten talented artists will be showing life drawings and paintings on the theme of the 'Power of the Human Form'. Most of the work will be available to buy as originals or limited edition prints. All the artists have exhibited widely before and include professional illustrators, a film animator, tutors, committed amateurs and an art degree student. The media used range from watercolour and pastel to charcoal and collage. 

While the styles vary, all the images have the immediacy that comes from drawing from a live model and capture the moment of that human contact. 

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Life Enhancing was created by a life model, Dermot, who really liked many of the drawings that were produced in life classes and thought other people might too. He collaborated with a tutor, Stewart, to launch the Life Enhancing online gallery in June 2016 which sells original life art and limited edition prints. Around ten artists are represented, many of them art tutors. The group is centred around Buckinghamshire. This is our second exhibition. 

10 Oct 2017

My Lovely Postcards is a project that was initiated by Veronica Brooks, a family friend of Beth Foreman who recently died in the care of Sobell House, aged 32. After her death, Beth’s family raised money which they donated to Sobell House in the form of Beth’s Bursary Fund.

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The aim of the fund is to provide professional development for some of the healthcare professionals working for Sobell House, and directly caring for people at the end of their lives.

Sobell House invited artists to be a part of My Lovely Postcards by creating and donating a 6” x 4” two-dimensional original artwork for them to auction. The aim of the exhibition is to fundraise for the hospice. And to help Sobell House to continue to offer high quality services, completely free of charge, to patients and families affected by a terminal illness across Oxfordshire.

Sobell House mounted, photographed, and exhibited all the postcards received for both an online auction and an exhibition at The Jam Factory. All the funds raised went directly to the ‘Beth’s Bursary Fund.’ 

18 Sep 2017

Alison Walters is inspired by landscape and the natural world. She does not aim to represent it realistically. She uses paint and colour to explore not only the visual and sensory experience of sky and trees, but also the changing seasons; a sense of time; and the changes that the earth goes through, seasonally and geologically. 

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Alison Walters suggests shapes through printing and masking layers of paint and different dilutions of water on her large canvases, creating a sense of movement and depth. She manipulates the colour and direction of the paint to hint at the change and transformation of the work, which reference her painterly process and interest in the natural world. 

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The artist is conscious of the pressures that have been put on our planet and environment by humans, affecting the survival of many species, as well as our own. Her thoughts about the issues surrounding climate change have percolated through into her paintings.

04 Sep 2017

In this joint exhibition, William Andris Wood and Helen Whitley aim to communicate ideas about anatomy from both an aesthetic, and a learning perspective. The human body has long been an integral aspect of European art. The intention of their joint exhibition, Soft Machines, is to address a conflict between the often emotive nature of the subject matter, in a objective and scientific approach. 

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The concerted understanding of unseen structures is what brings the three-dimensional objects in their environments to life on a two-dimensional surface.  

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The title ‘Soft Machines’ relates to the metaphor of the human body as made up of mechanical parts, each with a specific function. Their joint understanding of the intimate relationship between structure and function in human anatomy allows the artists to create images that explore these ideas.

23 Aug 2017

Beatrice Hoffman is an accomplished sculptor and sculpture teacher. She offers sculpture workshops from her studio in Oxfordshire. Beatrice Hoffman works mainly with clay: though also in stone, wood, plaster and polystyrene/expandable foam. She aims to achieve a degree of both simplicity and abstraction. In both figurative and abstract sculptures, the artist searches for a sense of fullness, contrasted with negative shapes; sharp angles between surfaces which are juxtaposed with smoothness. 

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In 2017, the artist won a large commission for Northampton Hospital. The life size work-in-progress will welcome the public at the entrance of the hospital, and raise awareness towards organ donation. 

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Beatrice Hoffman is fascinated by strong form. With her abstracted heads particularly, she explores themes on the interface of mythology, philosophy, psychology and spirituality. As a former Arts Therapist, she is very aware of her themes, and the psychological and expressive potential of sculpture as a medium. 

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The exhibit promises to reveal the masterly qualities of her sculpted strong forms in a series of photographs in the Restaurant Gallery.

01 Aug 2017

The Jam Factory presents 'Artefact' a joint exhibition by print designer, Sarah Fennell and designer-maker, Katie Whittaker.

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Artefact is a collaborative show, reinterpreting ancient and collected objects to re-engage a modern audience. Katie Whittaker and Sarah Fennell share a mutual fascination for museum artefacts and curiosities. 'Artefact' will explore the objectification of relics curated in museums through the designers' complimentary styles.

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Katie's fluid drawn line and jewellery based interpretations will sit in conversation with Sarah's distinctive cut and paste aesthetic collages.

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Sarah Fennell is a textile designer and print maker who hand prints bespoke fabric for interior objects. Having mastered the process of silk screen-printing, she hones this ancient craft to create unique compositions of colour and object which showcase exceptional craftsmanship and integrity.

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With a distinctive cut and paste aesthetic, she uses paper collage to form the basis of her ideas. Intrigued by the conversations that objects can have within a defined space, she cuts out shapes free hand early on in the design process to develop the spatial interaction between shapes and negative space. These collages are then re- interpreted on fabric as large scale stencilled prints, or worked with digitally to create artwork for print. By taking a playful approach to both collage and colour, her printed works on both paper and fabric celebrate contrasts inherent to objects: surface and depth of field with line and texture: staged still life becomes an animated pattern. Sarah's collaging and screen printing process is inherent to her design aesthetic, and focusses on communicating the joy to be found in oversized pattern and harmony of colour.  

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Katie Whittaker is greatly inspired by ancient objects, folklore and the sea. Currently based in Oxfordshire, she has been developing illustrative jewellery since graduating. Her Sympathetic Jewellery collection was originally based on the Sympathetic Magic exhibits at the Pitt Rivers but has grown to include inspiration from the Ashmolean, the British Museum and the SCVA. The collection focuses on the convenience of modern life and reconnects the wearer with their ancestors and the traditional hunting rituals, superstitions and beliefs that have been lost. 

24 Jul 2017

The Jam Factory presents “Petal, Anther, Peace”, an exhibition of oil paintings and ink drawings by artist Araminta Blue.

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Araminta is an early career artist due to begin a master of fine art at The Slade on completion of this exhibition. She graduated from The Ruskin School of Art in 2012 and has since exhibited regularly in London. This is her first solo exhibition to be held in Oxford.

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This exhibition of oil paintings and ink drawings takes inspiration from the zen gardens of Kyoto. With a gentle colour palette, Araminta has cast rocks, plants and fabrics in a natural balance across the canvas.

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Araminta works in London, whilst making regular source-material hoarding trips into nature - to colourful, vibrant countries such as Japan, Sri Lanka, Morocco and Iceland. In the studio she surrounds herself with an edited environment of imagery, but composes her scenes mainly from memory and instinct. With a style that treads the line between classical and contemporary, she gently abstracts her subjects with sinuous brushwork and emotive colour palette.  

11 Jul 2017

'Mothers of daughters are daughters of mothers and have remained so, in circles joined to circles, since time began.'  

Signe Hammer

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Rona uses a mostly monochromatic palate of oil on canvas to paint images of people. She is interested in the inner psyche and in capturing a particular mood. Rona's subject matter is usually what is close to her, hoping to gain a greater understanding through this exploration.  

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Over the years she has realised that her themes focus primarily on women.  For this exhibition she has put all the paintings she have done of women into themes.  This exhibition is a selection of works, linked together by family, focusing on the mother/daughter relationship.  The circle of mothers as the life-giving vessel.

06 Jun 2017

Melissa Castrillon is a freelance illustrator based in Cambridge, England. In 2009 she completed her BA in illustration, then an MA in childrens book illustration both from the Cambridge school of Art.

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She is currently writing her first picture book, and has had two picture books published this year, 'If i had a little dream' with US published Simon & Schuster and 'Che Bello' with Italian publisher Topipittori. Her third book is expected for this summer with UK publisher Templar. 

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With a passion for punchy colour combos, screen printing, and all things flora and fauna Melissa's illustrations are a brightly coloured and detailed worlds with curiosities and stories lurking throughout. 

05 Jun 2017

Dear potential Instagram followers,

In 2008, Theatre actor and minor daytime television personality Oliver Gomm
created (by accident) an alter ego named GOMMIE who writes obsessively in
overpriced moleskin pads and gets himself into all sorts of trouble just so he
can write about it to his adoring and imaginary public who consider GOMMIE
to be a sort of modern day (alive) version of Samuel Pepys.

After many years (8) of successfully keeping up his accidental (and mostly
secret) duty, GOMMIE met a wonderful girl called MELANIE who was doing a
PHD in “the internet” at “Oxford”... and she said to him one day “GOMMIE,
why do you write in pads and not on the internet? without the internet you
don't exist. Without the internet you're nothing but an offline community of
one”.

GOMMIE (and this is just the kind of guy he is) took this on board, and
thought that maybe this is part of the reason for him feeling so isolated and
weird all the time; He was not part of the internet!

So the next week, after breaking up with MELANIE, GOMMIE logged onto
Insagram under the guise “MYOFFLINECOMMUNITYOFONE” and started
lifting and posting specific memories from his diaries into highly personal,
visual poems that he called “GOMMIES" in the hope of exploring such
subjects as love, fun, English politics, and the fascinating tension that exists
between survival and adventure. He even wrote a manifesto on the carpet of
his mums floor one day stating all sorts of Dogma- style facts about what a
GOMMIE is. About how a GOMMIE is “not words only”. About how a GOMMIE
is “a poem that can turn into anything at all” About how “You don’t have to
worry about anything in GOMMIE” And about how “All you need to GOMMIE,
is a pen, something to write on, and the infinite- which is infinite.”

And now, Some 11 months later, with a sweet 336 followers under his belt,
GOMMIE feels like a martyr and is consequently well up for bringing YOU
(potential Instagram followers) up close and personal with a few classic
GOMMIES in the hope that you will stop fucking around and start
GOMMIEING yourself.

See you on the green.
love,
Gommie
Jan 2017.

31 May 2017

We are very happy to announce the Birmingham and Midland Pastel Society will be exhibiting with us in June! Their group exhibition ‘BOUNDARIES’ features the work of twenty artists from the society. 

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The BMPS was founded by Waveney Fredrick, Alex Jackson and Gordon Yapp in the hope of providing a platform for artists working in pastel. There are no members of the society, only exhibitors. Since establishing the committee in 1982, they have exhibited in venues across the midlands. 

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This exhibition will show a staggering range of technique under the theme ‘Boundaries’. The theme was put forward in a committee meeting as a means of giving focus to the exhibition beyond the limitations imposed by their medium. It is the first time the society have given a theme to an exhibition. They believe it is a subject that can be widely interpreted by artist and viewer. 

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The exhibition which runs in our Small and Large Gallery will show work by: Hazel Astling, Paul Bartlett, Patricia Beach, Meryl Blake, Malcolm Brookes, Sally Brookes, Lesley Connolly, Sylvie Dattas, Jan Gay, Mary Griffin, John Hodgkins, Pat Landon, Ursala Newell-Walker, Patrick Penrose, Joanne, Powell, Colin Simmonds, Claire Spencer, David Spurrier, Jan Summerfield and Vera Turner. Their group exhibition runs 1st June - 31st July 2017.

10 May 2017

The Jam Factory's annual open exhibition returns to our walls during Oxfordshire Artweeks!

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Oxford Open is staged across two of our spaces. Illustration, photography, sculpture, and many more will all feature in our largest open exhibition to date!

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This open show centres on supporting and revealing the artistic talent of the exhibiting individuals. We promise to present a strikingly diverse collection of work!

02 May 2017

The Oxfordshire Visual Arts Festival is a non profit-making company which runs annually during May each year. The festival is a superb opportunity for artists to exhibit in group and solo shows in large public spaces. And to individual artists showing work in their own home or studios.  

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This year there are nearly 500 exhibitions across the county and we are very excited to announce that Kamal Koria, winner of the Mary Moser Award 2014-2015, will be exhibiting at The Jam Factory! 

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His distinguished style has been celebrated and exhibited in the UK, and internationally. His mastered ability is distinguished by his expert use of colour, technique and composition. Inspired by the rich culture of colourful India, his paintings poetically capture human nature and a nostalgic sense of his childhood memory. 

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Kamal Koria’s May exhibition will revealed preparatory sketches and paintings in our Small and Large Gallery.

02 May 2017

Alice Bowsher is an illustrator who works primarily with black ink and doesn't get bored of drawing animals. She resides in London and works as a free-lance illustrator.

Alice Bowsher's solo exhibition titled 'America' will reveal kinetic sculptures and large scale ink drawings, inspired by her time spent travelling. 

She will use the floor, walls and ceiling to tell the viewer tales from her travels in America. Alice Bowsher will invite the viewer to change, to create and to form these nameless kinetic 3D characters.

She believes that her positive memories, placed in contrast with current media attention, create an interesting foundation from which to develop and build upon ideas.

Exhibition runs until 9th May in The Jam Factory's Boiler Room.

07 Mar 2017

Mark Haddon is an internationally respected novelist. He is best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time (2003), written and illustrated by Haddon is has sold nearly three million copies in the UK alone. Since launching the award-winning book it is now featured in exam syllabuses across the UK, and has been adapted for a stage production, which has been seen by an audience totalling over one million.  

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Haddon has always been fascinated by making pictures of people and writing alike. He believes that his life has come full circle and admits that it's portraits which fascinate him more than anything else; partly because he is fascinated by people more than anything else; partly because portraits are so difficult; and partly because, when you really capture someone, something mysterious happens.  

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His joint exhibition reveals portraits of alongside artists, academics, family members and friends. His exhibition promises to reveal and celebrate his artistic talent!

28 Feb 2017

Tom Croft is an Oxford based painter. Croft has over twenty years experience as a professional artist and illustrator. His talent was recognised from a young age, as he was offered an art scholarship at St. Edwards, Oxford, before spending three years training under artist and illustrator, Roger Barcilon. 

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Croft has built up his reputation by painting public figures such as footballers, musicians and Bishop Libby Lane. Croft stands up to paint as his rebellious brushstrokes, made with flats and filberts, reject the photorealism process that he once practiced. His exhibition will reveal a collection of bold oil portraits. 

24 Jan 2017

The six-week solo exhibition entitled 'Crowds' presents a body of work by Marcin Kulabko, a Polish artist based in Oxford. Graduating from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland, the artists life-long dedication to the arts has been recognised internationally. He has exhibited and sold work in: Denmark, Norway, Poland, China, USA, Holland and England.

Marcin observes the actions of the people from his surroundings. His nameless characters, objects and patterns are applied individually to paper. Kulabko's practice touches on surrealism; there is a playful element to his work, as the skilful blend of coloured marker-pen enhances the lunacy of the works perspective.

The exhibition will reveal an all-encompassing vision of his observations.

18 Jan 2017

The six-week exhibition entitled Legs to Walk us, Drop us, is a body of work that loosely focuses on a mythological narrative within a collage universe, created by artist, Ben Giles. The series acts as a fantasy springboard for the viewers own imagination and world. He seeks for the viewer to build, take hold and create their own stories. This project was held alongside large prints of various works from 2016 in the Small & Large Gallery.

Nature, metamorphosis, light, colour, collage, collaboration, juxtaposition, repetition, excitement, evolution, manipulation, music, television, improvisation, participation and seduction are all components in Ben Giles’ practice.

17 Jan 2017

Matthew's solo exhibition presented a series of black and grey prints from his project, Edgelands. 

Matthew Thompson is a South England based Fine Art Photographer. The suburbs and outer edges of cities are Matthew's main subject, which he refers to as Edgelands. Away from the forced ideologies of the inner city with square parks and glass skyscrapers, he depicts a more harmonious marrriage of the two worldly forces. The transcience of these spaces renders them overlooked and unkempt. This allows raw processes such as human industry and the growth of plants to be intertwined organically. It is Matthew's intention to highlight and celebrate these concrete, industrial forests in his work. Developing his negatives himself Matthew often opts to leave in marks, spills and leaks in an attempt to echo this manual process and the haphazard development of the landscapes he captures.

07 Dec 2016

Dorothy’s paintings probe the theme of endings, they promise to please the eye and intrigue the mind. Each of the 13 paintings and their associated tales will ensure that the curiosity of the viewer leads them through the space.

Dorothy Megaw is a local Oxfordshire artist and Market Trader. She can be found most Thursdays and Saturdays selling art on her stall at Gloucester Green.

Oxford Gothic is a group of thirteen paintings and thirteen written responses which explore the twists and turns of human endeavour. The body of work is inspired by endings: the death of a loved one, the cessation of a habit, a change in the way of seeing, feeling or being. Each stroke creates character and characterisation develops into relationships. Colour palettes become raging harbingers of doom or understated acts of glory. With the silent adding of an eye, the removal of a comma, the horror of the Gothic explodes and the theatre of storytelling begins.

05 Oct 2016

The natural world is an important focus for my painting. Recent landscape paintings tend to the more intimate: studies of familiar meadows, hedgerows, trees, orchards and gardens. My affinity for nature and wild paces stems from outings with my father, who loved to take the family walking in woods and down country lanes. We learned the art of foraging, how to recognise edible mushrooms, where to find wild strawberries; he took us moth trapping at night and taught us the names of butterflies, trees and wild flowers.

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Elaine's landscape paintings, though semi-abstract, are nevertheless personal accounts of what she sees, based on a vocabulary of non-figurative shapes and lines. She uses this visual language to share her interpretation and understanding of the subject with the viewer. She frequently paints on a red ground, which gives energy and vibrancy to the over-painting, building up a matrix of colour and texture, like a leaf mosaic in a shaded hedgerow. She wants to represent the natural world, the paradox of ordered chaos, that intricate assembly of wild beauty. She finds the best way for me to achieve this is to work freely, so that sometimes her brushwork might seem to border on the accidental, but all the while she is conscious of the need to maintain a tension between looseness and control.

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Many of her paintings are interpretations of intimately-known localities, which are frequently, but not exclusively, in Oxfordshire, where she now lives, besides those of my native Nottinghamshire.

04 Oct 2016

In 2010 a decision for each of us to write a brief memoir of our student days to contribute to The Slade School of Fine Art archives resulted in a group of us, who had been students there in 1960, meeting in London for the first time in many years. We discovered that we were all still working; many were exhibiting, some had taught, and all had brought up families. 

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Curiosity led to plans for a group exhibition in Oxford, and all of us agreed to include among our personal selections a piece from The Slade or earlier. Many of us had not seen each others work over the last 50 years. It will be interesting for us, and we hope for others, to try and see if being taught by such established artists as William Coldstream, Frank Auerbach and Patrick George influenced our work, or did we each pursue our own pathways. 

06 Sep 2016

Elaine Allender is an Oxford-based artist who is inspired by the natural world.  Self-taught, Elaine is interested in the use of colour and texture, building up her paintings in many layers.

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Inspired by years of designing, planting and nurturing gardens, she captures the essence of her flowers and landscapes with mark making in a loose, non-representational style.

‘I’m not interested in the strictures of botanical drawing, rather the feeling that the scene inspires in me.’

As well as her impressionist meadow paintings, Elaine often works with mixed media on canvas to create bold, densely textured flower works in a semi-abstract style. 

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She has previously exhibited in Oxford, Sussex, Worcestershire and Leicestershire and her paintings have found homes in private collections in France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Hungary, Greece, the UAE, the USA and Australia, as well as throughout the UK.

24 Aug 2016

Amy Ash is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice incorporates curatorial projects, teaching and learning, installation, collage, illustration and other forms of making.

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Originally from New Brunswick, Canada, Ash holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Mount Allison University (CA) and a Bachelor of Education from the University of New Brunswick (CA).  Her work understands personal and cultural cosmologies and lore as notions formed by the connectivity of memory, object, value, place, experience and their respective truths and fictions. She has exhibited and curated programmes in Canada, Japan and the UK. Recently, she completed a thematic residency, Truth Lies and Lore, at the Banff Centre for the Arts, for which she was awarded a bursary from the Peter McKendrick Endowment Fund for Visual Artists.

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Amy's practice flows between curatorial projects, teaching and learning, installation and other forms of making.

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Throughout her practice, she sees the construction and regeneration of personal and cultural cosmologies and lore as an outcome of the intersections and overlaps between experience, memory, value, hearsay, place and object. Playful interventions and experiments stem from these ideas to tease the collective memory and question or confuse common associations and truths, encouraging new meaning to be created. 

10 Aug 2016

Studying contemporary drawing has meant that his practice focuses on the relationship between line, colour and mark-making in a conventional space. It is the exploration of these relationships, and what is created in the process, which informs his work.

This set of lino prints and ink drawings were developed using various drawing techniques which are often then translated through the printing process to try and give the work a sense of controlled freedom.

09 Aug 2016

Sophie's wooden sculptures are hand-carved, original designs that try to be elegantly simplistic while still remaining approachable and inviting.

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Ancient objects whose precise functions have been lost in time inspire Sophie. This influences the design of her pieces as she tried to in still them with the same enigmatic qualities found in her source material.

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Sophie is fascinated with different cultures and their exoticism is expressed in her work through curious forms and implied function; something familiar and yet unfathomable all at the same time.

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These influences combine to create work with a vague sense of unreality that still retain a comforting familiarity, which provoke an urge to curl up inside one and take shelter form the world.

13 Jul 2016

Technology evokes technology to become anachronistic and obsolete. Thus, technology is slated for being obsolete. Nowadays, old-fashion machines are no longer object of desire for us; they are no longer seen as technology and indeed, are barely even seen as objects of recognition, and became just anachronistic or nostalgic. Therefore, they are now related to the past, no longer a thing of the present or future.

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However, if so, it seems that anachronism is about being in different ways a sort of paradoxical being in time. This is because everything of anachronism is ‘In’ the present, and ‘Of’ the present. Therefore, the paradoxical beings of anachronism belong to the present but are “not ‘there’ in” the present; they belong to the past but maybe to the future – the past is not just the past but it exists in the present – so the past has present. 

11 Jul 2016

Jenny Eadon now works mainly as an abstract painter after many years as a sculptor.

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She travels a lot and many of her paintings show the impressions and memories associated with specific places visited. In her paintings she orders the jumbled mosaic of recollections by putting down the defining connotations of a place and expressing the particular colours, shapes, mood and sensations experienced there.  Work also comes from an inner landscape of visual images invoked by reading poetry - the essence of the words, filtered through the artist, seek to find an equivalent on the canvas within the components of form, colour and space.

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When painting, Jenny feels she is going on a journey of exploration by trying out what will work and what will happen with different conjunctions.  Through a layering of colour and line, each painting builds a strata of connections, crossings and re-crossings - subsequent layers influenced or changed by traces underneath.

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Jenny Eadon took a Fine Art Foundation at Berkshire College of Art in Maidenhead, had a year at Amersham College of Art, and then a four year BA Hons. in Fine Art at Reading University.  Subsequently she took a Postgraduate Diploma, Artists in Schools, at Anglia University in Cambridge.  In 2006 Jenny lived in San Francisco for six months where she did one semester of an MA in Advanced Abstract painting at the Academy of Art, since then she has concentrated on abstract painting.

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Jenny’s influences have been and still are Matisse, Degas, David Smith, Eva Hesse, John Walker, Richar Diebenkorn and the other San Francisco Bay Area abstract expressionists, Howard Hodgkin and Roger Hilton, and many artist friends and colleagues.

28 Jun 2016

Andrew is  a freelance illustrator from Melrose, Scotland. He likes to create illustrations with a sense of humor and fun. Andrew tends to use bright, bold colours but also enjoys working with monotone print techniques as well.

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"I have been drawing pictures my whole life and love spending as much time as possible creating new characters and images for others to enjoy". 

06 Jun 2016

British independent Artist Omar Obaid (b.1985) is an international bestseller.

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Creating original abstract paintings direct from his studio using a variety of techniques to add texture and definition to his work.

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Omar enjoys creating large artworks filled with movement and colour. His abstract work is inspired by everyday life.

This can be seen in his work from the strong gestures and heavy movements in his brush strokes.

Every piece is an original one-of-a-kind painting and is ready to hang.

01 Jun 2016

Matthew Davies

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Matthew Davies is an Oxford based mixed media Artist and Industrial product designer. His works spans a variety of different disciplines including illustration, painting, sculpture, model making and computer generated art. He has most recently been commissioned a large abstract sculpture as part of the Hove Plinth project on Brighton sea front and has historically had his sculptural design exhibited at Chelsea Flower show and other international exhibitions. His most recent collection “Electric Canvas” explores the use of digital illustration software to emulate the look and feel of acrylic and oil painting techniques and the freedom of editable colour and scale and texture.

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Miriam Ortega Dominguez 

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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

-Alberto Giacometti

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A Spanish/American Artist, now based in Oxford who’s art is inspired by the ever-changing emotional and physical landscape of her childhood; recreating colours and moods she experienced growing up in parts of Asia, South America, Europe and then settling down in the USA as an adult.

She earned her degree in Applied Science of Drafting and Design and then went on to study Art at the Southwest School Of Arts in San Antonio Texas.

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This current collection is a compilation of selected pieces from two collections; Lonely Skylines and a Nude Study.

Included in this exhibit is the painting titled “Rainfall Silence” for which she was awarded the President's Donor Award by the San Antonio Art Museum.

31 May 2016

Claire's initial inspiration is derived from the mainly natural world- a tone of light, a tumultuous sea, an early morning walk, sometimes joy or melancholy, a mood.

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Claire follows the emotion created when applying paint, letting the painting evolve, intuitive more than planned. The paintings can take days or weeks to complete.

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The aim is to capture the evocative elements that can transcend the materialistic and harsh world we can find ourselves in today and transport the viewer to a perhaps more spiritual place.

The paintings are mostly acrylic and mixed media on board or canvas.

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Van Gogh mentioned that he strived to capture the ‘eternity’ of things. I emphasise with this statement.

The Artist is inspired by the work of Turner, Rothko, Maggie Hambling and Joan Eardley amongst others.

06 May 2016

Gareth Lloyd 

A former soldier who discovered his artistic talent on tour in Iraq, Gareth is an Oxford based Artist creating endearing wildlife pieces in pencil, paint and charcoal. Over the years, Gareth has worked with organisations such as the Born Free foundation and Lion Aid. His soulful pieces have captured the heart of art collectors and animal lovers worldwide, and many are now housed in prestigious international collections.

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Elaine Allender 

An Oxford-based artist who is inspired by the colours and textures of the natural world.  Self-taught, Elaine is interested in the use of colour and texture, building up her paintings in many layers. Inspired by both the Scottish Colourists and the Impressionists, she strives to capture the essence of her flowers and rural scenes with mark making in a non-representational style. 

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Alexandra Buckle

Oxfordshire based Artist who is inspired by countryside walks and excited by light, shadow and colour. Alexandra enjoys capturing her favourite scenery as hand printed ‘reduction’ linocuts.

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Celestine Kim

An abstract painter and installation artist. In recent years, she has explored the relationship and interaction between abstract artworks and space. She believes that if paintings or art objects are effectively considered in conjunction with space, there is a synergistic effect and the effect leads to different visual dialogues between art objects and space.

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Claire Forsythe

Claire works within the figurative tradition to produce drawings and paintings based on observation. She explores the tension that arises as she depicts form whilst also allowing abstract qualities to develop. It is an investigative process in which form is continually lost and recovered in an attempt to capture something profound in the subject. Claire works primarily with drawing materials and oil paint.

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Deborah Williams 

An Oxford artist who went to school and university in Oxford and has lived in West Oxford for the last 18 years. As an artist, Deborah’s preoccupations are movement and light.  She has always been interested in form and for many years worked primarily in black and white, concentrating on life drawing and still life and how to use tone to show form in a simplified way.

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Maureen Gillespie 

An Artist who has always been passionate about art; with a successful career behind her, and her family all grown up, Maureen has been fortunate to return to her passion. Life took on a whole new challenge; Maureen attended a refresher course to brush up on her skills, rented a small studio locally and discovered an array of different techniques. Graduating from charcoal and pastel sketches to acrylic paints, like most artists setting out, Maureen was trying to find and create her style.

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Jim Robinson 

A self taught artist who has been painting and drawing from an early age. Jim works in a studio at home and prefers to create small to medium sized works, most recently using coloured pencil, coloured inks, graphite and charcoal or chalk as well as gouache on thick paper. He also works in acrylics and oils on canvas. Although he is not a traditional water-colourist, he enjoys working with ink, pencil and wash. In the same way he finds drawing with ink pen comes more naturally than working with graphite. 

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Ella Hendy

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Oil paints have long been Ella’s preferred medium but she has increasingly enjoyed using acrylics, particularly mixed with textured wallpaper samples on canvas.  Her use of colour varies according to the mood of the piece but, even when using vibrant colours, often work with a limited colour palette. 

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Eleanor Bruce

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An Artist who reworks layers of colour and shape, creating conflicting structures of organic and geometric marks, resembling explosions and chaos.

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Louise Gordan

She loves to draw buildings as she feels it makes her notice and appreciate the architecture around her, and she hopes that her drawings will encourage people to look at the buildings they pass everyday in more detail.

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Beatrice Hoffman 

Grew up in Germany and studied sculpture at the Norwich School of Art from 1986-9. She is based near Oxford and is working mostly in solid and coiled clay, creating sculptures both figurative and abstract to be cast in bronze (resin).

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Rona 

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Uses a mostly monochromatic palate of oil on canvas to paint images of people.  She is interested in the inner psyche and in capturing a particular mood. Her subject matter is usually what is close to her and she hopes to gain a greater understanding through this exploration. Her themes focus primarily on relationships and past works have included the role of women in Japanese society, the family, pregnancy, motherhood, ageing and teenage girls.

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Chu-Ern

Born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1972 and has worked and lived in many places since then. She has always seen the world differently, particularly in terms of colour. She is colour blind and her work reflects her world of light and shadow. Her current artwork involves the effect of emotion on the human body and her own thoughts in reference to the subject. She experiments with pigments, some bought and some made from the things she collects during her long walks.

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Gena Johns 

Oxfordshire based Fine Artist, born in Osaka, Japan. Fine Art Graduate of the University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art. Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said,  "Do you ever know what the birds are singing?  You don't, but you listen to them anyway". So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.

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Siobhan Cooney 

An Artist who graduated in 2003 with a degree in product design, and since then she has worked as a prototype designer, an interior designer and an art and graphics teacher. Four years ago she decided to focus solely on her art career, and she works from her studio in Oxfordshire. As an artist she works across numerous disciplines and media, and she likes to vary her work to both challenge and refresh herself. At present Siobhan is screen printing, spray painting, and adding depth through resin coating.

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Robert W Strange 

Life is put in boxes. He collects colourful, everyday objects that are discarded, unwanted and/or past their usefulness. These are then placed in a box where he rejuvenates them and makes them special. As in a museum, if something is encased in glass it must have worth, and so it is with ordinary objects such as old ties, sweet wrappers, golf tees etc. Their beauty lies in back-story, what they once represented and what they accomplished. Like humans they have a purpose even though they are old and weathered. 

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Joanne Lillywhite 

An artist living in South Oxfordshire, UK.  She specialises in pastel paintings and drawing in pencil and charcoal. Joanne has loved drawing since she was a child.  She could often be seen copying pictures from books or making portraits of her family members.  Joanne is self-taught but regularly attends courses to further her knowledge.  She believes that as an artist, or in any profession, you should never stop learning and it’s important to try new techniques and styles in order to make art, which is interesting and evokes a response in the viewer. 

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John Blandy 

Recent work is painted on site, with an emphasis on the immediate quality of mark that relates directly to the visual source. Blandy works with the idea of a moment in time, making extended series following particular places over long periods. Two projects that are current follow a lime tree in Queens Park and a stream near Oxford.

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Philly Rutt

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A London based Artist from Oxford whose colourful work is eclectic, demonstrating a range of disciplines and mediums. Inspired by the landscapes around her, Phillipa works with acrylic paint, pen and ink and uses a variety of techniques to create texture and depth to her work.

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Paul Minter

An Artist inspired by the local landscape and he tries to capture the changing moods of the weather. Minter is always disappointed by photographs, which rarely do justice to the magnificent sunrises and sunsets over the Ridgeway. ‘So I try to remember the colours and to capture them in paintings that have become increasingly abstracted. I try to make exciting paintings that create a powerful impression across a room, but that also reward close scrutiny’.

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Moon Lee

Moon’s work is invested in making an image, which is mixing oriental figurative paintings, and contemporary visual productions, which are from various mass media, publications and cultures. He often discovers new ideas and concepts through the interaction between the human body and matter of the world, or subjectivity and desire.

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Merlin Porter 

A vibrant and soulful Oxford-based visual artist working primarily in watercolour, ink, pencil and oil pastel. Merlin focuses on creating pieces live on location in social, performance or street settings, as well as illustration and figurative work.

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Julie Wigg 

Julie’s paintings embrace the outdoors. They reflect the real and imagined, the ideal, experience and memory of being in an ever changing landscape, tempered by constantly shifting dramas of light, movement and weather, that emulate the delicate fabric of the natural world. Influenced by mid 19th century painters and process driven, the overlapping woven surface layers build with the application of paint, often fast yet deliberate.

04 May 2016

Joe Davis

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Joe Lives and works in London and Oxford

Education: 2009-2012 BA(Hons) Mixed Media Fine Art, University Of Westminster

It is rewarding and fascinating to document the mundane and the ordinary. His work explores the the idea of adding value to mundane objects and situations, through various mediums and decisions. Colour has never been important to his work, he feels the use of monochrome expresses everything  he is trying to say. However Joe's works evolve, he will always view them as drawings because that is how they were originally formed.

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Jan Ritchie

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Having studied textile design at Derby College of Art, Jan worked for many years as a fabric and wallpaper designer producing designs for both the fashion and furnishing markets. She worked for companies including Rose & Hubble,Warner Fabrics, Sanderson's, Laura Ashley and M&S.

Her designs have been used in many places ranging from Buckingham Palace to Hollywood blockbusters! She has sold many prints and drawings, some under her maiden name Jan Collins; one of her latest commissions was the artwork and design for the Classic Ghost Stories CD by Bill Spectre.

04 May 2016

Is it possible to stop time? Can a person actually stop for just a moment to notice, to realise, to contemplate their surroundings? Their perspective? Is fine art photography doomed because of digital imaging? Is everyone a photographer now because they have a camera on their phone? These are just some of the questions I pursue in my practice.

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My sources of inspiration are as varied as the types of images that I create. I adore the canon of master photographers in the early 20th Century like Stieglitz, Steichen, Weston, Adams, Cartier-Bresson, et. al. I sometimes wish to have been one of their contemporaries because of my beginnings in black and white film photography.