Artweeks finishes with a flourish this Bank Holiday weekend. Esther Lafferty chooses five favourite faces for an Artweeks finale this bank holiday weekend.

Begin in Bicester where, alongside St Edburg’s Church, the town’s talented Sculpture Group hold an annual exhibition in the grounds of The Old Vicarage.

There’s a stunning array of interesting and intricate pieces by seventeen sculptors, and a variety with something to appeal to everyone whether that’s stone, steel, figurative or fun.

Enjoy, for example, the striking line and characterisation captured by Christopher Rothero with metal, string, wire and mesh. Chris has been drawing and making things with his hands for as long as he can remember, as a boy using plasticine, balsa wood and tissue paper.

He left school at 15 and became a boy seaman before later becoming an art teacher and book illustrator with an interest in medieval military history. More recently he began creating three dimensional pieces, starting each from careful drawings, which have both a precision and a light-hearted dynamism.

In the town centre, too, Artweeks first-timer, the talented printmaker Alexandra Buckle invites you into her home studio to see stunning prints of the countryside, rich in colour and contrast.

She enjoys capturing her favourite scenery as hand-printed ‘reduction’ linocuts, a careful process in which each of the colours is printed from the same block, so she prints one colour first before then removing more material from the block, and printing consecutive colours are print on top of the previous ones, with striking effect.

Inspired by local walks in the countryside and nearby Stoke Wood, she brings the light and bright, and the shadow and shade right into her studio with striking May bluebells and deep red poppies.

In nearby Steeple Aston, textiles artist Jane Fitzalan, is another newcomer who originally trained as a garden designer and created beauty from the fabric of the earth. For her first Artweeks exhibition, she presents a series of work inspired by the pattern of hard landscape or the soft waves of waterscapes, choosing her materials from a large collection of fabric both vintage and new collected from travels around the world.

For quirky signage and thoughtful contemporary design, amidst paintings, prints, photos, collage and ceramics by a group of artists appropriately called Art More Lovely, explore Heyford House in Lower Heyford: it’s the quintessential English country house, rich with wisteria on old walls, lush lawns and home-made cake. Here, take the time to talk to designer-maker Tony Davis who loves to explore the boundary between what’s real and imagined.

As a child he always drew maps of imagined places and now, as a bonafide grown-up, he has persuaded the Ordinance Survey to allow him to adapt real maps into places from literature and what better place to start than Treasure Island, the first book ever to be printed with a map inside?

The Unstlanders of the Sheltands island of Unst claim it was their island that inspired R L Stevenson when he drew his own map for Treasure Island: when visiting his father, who was building Muckle Flugga lighthouse, the shape of the island and its bleakness sowed seeds of a treasure map into his mind. One hundred and thirty years later, Tony Davis is equally fascinated by the representation of fictional places using the symbols and iconography of our contemporary world.

Assembling his Treasure Island from several Ordinance Survey Landranger maps, Tony removed all roads, buildings and other evidence of civilisation before adding wooded areas and place names from Treasure Island in sympathetic typography to seamlessly suggest that the mappers had been there and seen it all, and you’ll see too Oxford as Christminster from Jude The Obscure and Chatsworth as Pemberley for the Pride and Prejudice fan.

And for your own imaginative journey, head to nearby Westcote Barton where James Jackson interprets the landscape in a peaceful pale space in the rolling green countryside that encourages contemplation. His images explore mark-making, colour and the spatial tension between painted and collaged elements and are a pleasure for any art aficionado.

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