Oxford Art Weeks - May 2026

We are open to the public on May the 16th and 17th and from the 20th to the 25th of May between 11am and 6pm.

This is the sixth year that Wycliffe Hall has participated in Oxford Artweeks, and we look forward to welcoming you.

Our gallery will show work by students, staff and friends of Wycliffe Hall, and includes paintings, pottery, ceramic sculptures, charcoal and chalk on paper, lino cuts, oil and acrylic works, iconography, pastels, watercolours, photography, and drawings. Artists will be available on some of the days to discuss their work.

We are delighted to be joined this year by Oxford artists and friends of the Hall Emma Coleman-Jones, whose charcoal work records the trees of Oxford throughout the seasons, and Jenny Dingwall, who specialises in lino cuts of Oxford and the countryside.

Wycliffe Hall is committed to fostering a New Renaissance, a vision for fresh inspiration to contribute to the transformation of our culture, and new wisdom in leadership, scholarship and art.

We look forward to your visit!

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Here is a small taste of some of the work on display...

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Wycliffe Hall Artweek Opening Times

Emma Coleman Jones - 'Lonely Oak, Thames Path'

David Clifton - 'Seven Islands. Knoxville, Tennessee'

Grace Jeon - 'Bodleian Library Door'

Jenny Dingwall - 'Morning Light on Oxford'

David Clifton - 'Icon: St Romanos'

David Clifton - 'Seed Pod Trio'

Jenny Dingwall - 'Aerial View of Oxford'

Celestial Solikar - 'Dream House'

David Clifton - 'Galway, Ireland. The Old Sea Road'

Grace Jeon - 'Wycliffe Chapel Window'

Jude Caisley - 'All Consuming'

David Clifton - 'Cobalt Blue Earthenware Bowl'

‘Beauty will save the world’, to slightly misquote Fyodor Dostoevsky! Inspired art has the power to move and motivate us, to communicate the power of love through creativity. The highest forms of art transcend the ordinary and mundane, pointing to a greater inspirational Light, encouraging engagement, thought, interaction and personal response. The beauty that artists bring to the world can be a revelation to us all, their work shining light and joy into our daily routines, strengthening us for the challenges that are an inevitable part of life. Pablo Picasso once described art as ‘a lie that enables us to see the truth’.

In the same manner in which the sound of a new song or symphony can lift our hearts and inspire us, the beauty of colour, form and shape, abstract or figurative, can engage and inspire us.

Antoni Gaudi, the Catalan architect, said that ‘originality consists in returning to the origin’. He viewed creativity as a process of discovery rather than invention, seeing originality as finding the simple first solutions, looking to the core principles of nature.

Theologian Abraham Kuyper stated that art is ‘one of God’s richest gifts to mankind’ commenting that the best art is designed to inspire us with the good and beautiful. It is a restoration of something our world has lost through the corrupting influence of evil and wrongdoing.

The current world crisis, with its uncertainty and challenges, gives us pause to reflect upon his wise words.

We look forward to welcoming you to our exhibition.

David Clifton, Artist in Residence

Oxford Art Weeks - May 2026

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Welcome from Wycliffe Hall's Artist in Residence