FOUR Oxfordshire designers will be among dozens showcasing and selling work at a design fair heading to the city for the first time.

More than 90 designers from a range of disciplines including jewellery-making, silverware, textiles and ceramics will arrive at Oxford Town Hall to take part in the first Handmade Oxford next month.

Creators will sell, take commissions and tell visitors about the processes and ideas behind their one-off pieces.

Most of those showcasing at the fair usually only sell in galleries and exhibitions, which makes this fair a rare opportunity to meet fellow makers.

Oxford is the latest event to be added to Handmade in Britain's series of ‘Handmade’ shows, which already boasts Handmade at Kew, Handmade Edinburgh and the flagship show – celebrating 11 successful years – Handmade Chelsea, at Chelsea Old Town Hall.

Chelsea’s event welcomes more than 4,000 visitors annually to the event and about 120 exhibitors.

Among those showing off Oxfordshire's craftsmanship at the three-day event will be the city's own Stella Campion.

Based at a studio in Cowley Road, the silversmith is best-known to many in Oxford for designing the altar candleholders for the University Church of St Mary the Virgin.

She will be showing off her latest collections of silverware and jewellery.

Wallingford ceramic artist Harriet Coleridge, meanwhile, will be exhibiting her latest pots, vases and jugs.

The Oxfordshire Craft Guild member works in stoneware and porcelain.

Also attending the fair will be textile designer Cassandra Sabo.

Originally from Canada, Ms Sabo moved to London to study textile design and earned a 1st from Central Saint Martins in woven textiles in 2011.

Now based in a studio in Osney Mead, West Oxford, she draws on her previous studies in engineering, her passion for architectural structures and 'the fluidity of the natural world' to create handwoven textiles.

The fourth local exhibitor at the first Handmade Oxford will be Laura Williams, who trades as Kinley Jewellery.

Describing her work as 'creative, modern, fine jewellery', Ms Williams says her aesthetic is 'bold, elegant, playful and beautiful, with an urban industrial quality'.

Visitors to Handmade Oxford will also be able to purchase and commission bespoke wooden boxes and furniture, from the likes of Neb Abbott, who designs handcrafted wooden lamp shades and furniture.

The town hall event will run on May 18, 19 and 20, 11am to 6pm on Friday and Saturday, and 11am to 5pm on Sunday.

Ticket prices start at £5 and are available now at handmadeinbritain.co.uk/oxford