Dr Drew Provan is a practising physician in haematology and an author-illustrator of textbooks for medical students and clinicians and other titles. Recently he has started turning science into art, reimagining molecules in sassy colours that leap from paper and metal for modern homes.
Seagull and chip by Anna Lockwood. £1,000 annalockwoodart.com Limited Edition Giclee Print of St Michaels Mount, Cornwall, by Anya Simmons £85.00 anyasimmons.co.uk Ravello
Clive Goddard Illustrations
Oxfordshire Artweeks
Abingdon’s Sue Smith is the winner of the 2023 Artweeks Mary Moser Award, an annual award intended to help develop the career of a professional artist who has taken up art as a second career later in life.
Mallory Journals
A New Page for the New Year
As we step into a New Year and a new chapter, we talk to Oxfordshire Artweeks designer-maker Sharon Highway of Mallory Journals who hand-binds individual and custom journals full of cheer and promise.
Chloe Romanos
Designed and Handcrafted Jewellery
In both silver and gold, Chloe’s jewellery has a pretty delicacy and a dainty elegance. Each has a distinctive striking character and a touch of intrigue or mysticism.
This month’s exhibition at The North Wall Arts Centre in Summertown showcases work by internationally renowned bio-artist Anna Dumitriu who produces art with living systems, bacteria and synthetic biology at its core.
The Tiny Details in the Great Outdoors
Esther Lafferty Meets: Sarah Smith
In a new collection, artist Sarah Smith’s quietly work speaks volumes about the countryside. Inspired by the shapes, patterns, and spaces you find as you look across the local countryside; her imagination honing the views and feeling of the landscape around us with ink, stencils, and collage.
On 28 June the Oxford Festival of the Arts welcomes acclaimed television writer, producer and director Sally Wainwright OBE to talk about her second series of Gentleman Jack. Ahead of tomorrow
Esther Lafferty talks to artist Cathy Read, who is presenting a new series of Oxford paintings for Oxfordshire Artweeks, to find out more about her distinctive style of painting and what Oxford means to her.
The Forge Gallery
Motoko Aritake-Wild
Motoko Aritake-Wild – a new artist bursting onto the Oxfordshire art scene this spring – is looking forward to opening a new Oxfordshire gallery, The Forge Gallery in Ascott-under-Wychwood. It’s a far cry from her previous career, working on projects in places all around the world to increase their living standards so Esther Lafferty caught up with her to find out more about her life and her art.