Esther Lafferty

As the summer sun encourages us to explore Oxfordshire and beyond, Esther Lafferty meets artist and sculptor Louise Regan who is inspired by the buildings she sees around her. Louise has appeared

This month and next, Oxfordshire Artweeks artists present a Christmas season of intimate open studios and festive events – great opportunities to buy local and to find inventive and imaginative

The Printed Garden is an exhibition opening this month at the Gallery at Waterperry. It brings together a diverse group of twenty printmakers and other artists all of whom have been inspired

For this month’s edition, Oxfordshire Artweeks Festival Director, Esther Lafferty, spoke with artist Jane Tomlinson about her painting of Old Father Thames, the winner of the People’s

Having burst onto the Oxfordshire art scene over the last year, winning the Ronapainting gallery prize at last year’s Oxford Art Society open exhibition, Erin Rosalie Thomas is delighted

If you’re a regular walker along the paths and in the parks of Oxford, it’s likely you’ll have come across Emma Coleman-Jones, wrapped up against the weather all year round

Oxfordshire Artweeks artist Thomas Shepherd is inspired by ‘books, buildings, and beyond’; and he loves to explore and illustrate stories, the places where stories can be found and the routes between them.

As Olympic fever builds, Esther Lafferty talks to Oxfordshire Artweeks artist Annabel Eyres, an Olympic rower who learnt to row at Pembroke College, when she moved to Oxford to study art at  Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. She describes how she managed to resist rowing for the first year, deterred by the 6am starts on the river in the cold winter months. However, the lure of the river in sunshine pulled in her in the following summer, and she was hooked.

With Father’s Day in mind, this month we’re celebrating men.