St Ethelwold’s House, off East St Helen Street, was open as part of the Oxfordshire Artweeks 2006. St Ethelwold’s is a Georgian house with gardens stretching to the River Thames.

The house and garden are open usually for meditation, prayer, discussion, and worshops. The workshops have names such as:

• An intro to Neuro Linguistic Programming
• Poetry Group
• The Enneagram; linking personality to spirit
• A day of Stillness, Sound & Silence

The art was the work of the East Saint Helen Street Group. There were paintings, ceramics, and sculpture. All was displayed in the quiet rooms of the house. This room looks out to the garden.

Glasswork by Solidea Guerra: blue glass with dark filaments, encased in clear glass, are mounted on this windowsill. “In spite of the power of fire to change clay to glass – the darkness yet remains”