The Abingdon Artists’ Spring Exhibition 2022 runs from Monday 21st March – Saturday 26th March in St Helen’s Church, West St Helen Street.

The exhibition features up to three works from lots of different Abingdon Artists.

Here for example are three by my wife, who is exhibiting for the first time, next to three Abingdon scenes by Clair Cross, who is very well known.

At St Ethelwold’s House over the last week there has been an exhibition called ‘House and Home – A celebration of community’.
From what I can gather, talking to somebody there, the houses have been made by students and staff from seven different local schools. 
Radley College is behind the project and will be showing the houses in their state of the art gallery.

Thankyou to Anne and Peter for letting me know and for some of the pictures.

The Abingdon Artists autumn Art Exhibition can be visited from Tuesday 26th to Saturday 30th October at the barn at Christchurch on Northcourt Road, Abingdon.

The Abingdon Artists meet on a Tuesday afternoon, for anyone who wants to paint,  at the nearby hall at Christchurch. The group usually has between 16 and 20 regular painters. There is also have a quick draw group who rendezvous at an out of doors location.

The exhibition includes a fine cornucopia of paintings and cards for sale.

A red dot means somebody has beaten you to buy the piece you wanted. You will need to get there earlier next time!

In the 2nd Abingdon Scout Group hut, there are bird murals painted on the walls by Jim Humphreys, a scout leader for many years. I saw Jim in town today and he mentioned the murals being shown on the internet by the Sunningwell School of Art, where he also paints. He gave me permission to borrow them for the Abingdon Blog.

Jim is a keen ornithologist and has done several birds including a Kingfisher

and an Osprey.

Jim is also one the Abingdon Guild of Town Criers, and part of the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers (normally as a fool) and a performer in the mummers’ plays.