Local Arts and Crafts

Craft fairs in North Oxfordshire are some of the best in the UK, with lots of fantastic arts based activities for you to get involved in! There are craft shows as well in North Oxfordshire providing lots of ideas and inspiration for you to use your holiday here to express your creativity and enjoy something you’ve never tried before! Or perhaps you’d prefer to gather your materials at the fair instead and have a go when you get home? Watch out for upcoming events in local craft fairs and shows.

Hook Norton Pottery and Craft Gallery, meanwhile, offers the opportunity to watch an internationally renowned potter at work and admire a range of mugs, jugs, butter dishes, bowls and much more as they are crafted before your very eyes. So if arts and crafts are your thing then a visit to Hook Norton while in North Oxfordshire is a must! Art is happening in North Oxfordshire!

Craft Events Throughout The Year

Year round there are many opportunities to see a wide range of art in North Oxfordshire and the surrounding area. The annual Oxfordshire Artweeks open studio event, runs over three weeks, and this year the North Oxfordshire period runs from 10th – 18th May.Across the County hundreds of artists in over 400 sites open up their studios or hire village halls to put on an exhibition of art work. This is a unique experience in what is one of the longest running open studio events in the country. Art can be seen in many unusual venues including dental & doctor surgeries, local businesses and shops.

Throughout the year local crafts are on show at Banbury Tourist Information Centre where local artists from the Oxfordshire Craft Guild are featured. Within the shop a feature is the ‘I love Jewellery’ cabinet, showcasing a different local jewellery maker each month.
Just a short walk away along the canal towpath is The Mill Arts Centre, which also displays local artists and crafts.

Contacts:
Oxfordshire Artweeks
http://www.artweeks.org
www.artweeks-gallery.org

Banbury Tourist Information Centre, Spiceball Park Road, OX16 2PQ
http://www.cherwell-dc.gov.uk/leisure/tourist.cfm

The Mill Arts Centre, Spiceball Park, Banbury OX16 5QE

Box Office Tel: 01295 279 002

www.themillartscentre.co.uk

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