Artweeks’ Board

David is a stone sculptor. His work speaks of the natural world with both expressive and abstract approaches. He taught Science and Art (Photography) in schools in Somerset, Wiltshire, Warwickshire and Oxfordshire for over 30 years before retiring from classroom education. He works for his own enjoyment, for exhibition and to commission. His Sculpture-in-a-Day courses run from late Spring to early Autumn and have opened up the world of sculpture to hundreds of clients. He is a member of Oxford Art Society and the Oxford Sculptors Group. He has exhibited in Artweeks since 2017.

Born in Birmingham, where he studied architecture, Paul lived in southern Spain before settling in Bristol in 1979 where he lived for over 40 years before relocating to Wolvercote in 2021. Paul has been involved with a number of not-for-profit organisations and chaired a substantial charity for over 10 years. He also organised community arts events involving visual artists, performers, musicians and theatre groups. Paul is a photographer with an MA in Documentary Photography. A frequent exhibitor himself, he exhibited in Oxfordshire Artweeks for the first time in 2021. He believes passionately in the enjoyment and benefit that involvement in the arts can provide and hopes to develop creative opportunities for all through his involvement in Oxfordshire Artweeks.

Phillip has been the Head of Arts for the Jam Factory in Oxford since 2020. With a firm belief in providing a voice and a platform for the arts in Oxford and surrounding areas. He studied Graphic communication at Bath Spa University and has a background of graphic design, curation and branding. Phillip has worked alongside hundreds of artists, curating exhibitions, coordinating life drawing classes and organising Art markets.

Jo is a painter, working in acrylic and pastel and her pictures are vibrant and striking. Her work is sold in local galleries and venues across Oxfordshire and further afield, and she regularly takes on commissions for clients. After working in IT and Finance, Jo chose an artistic career, to pursue her love of creating art. She has been a member of Artweeks since 2019 and been local co-ordinator for the Wallingford and Watlington areas, where she now exhibits.

Becca first exhibited her fused glass when she took part in Oxfordshire Artweeks in 2022 having moved to Oxford from Surrey the previous year. She is enthusiastic about the support that Artweeks provides for artists new to exhibiting, along with the access to new and wider audiences. Until recently she was a founding partner in an aviation consultancy working globally and with expertise in business analysis, strategy, marketing and the use of data. She has held a number of trustee and non-executive director roles for organisations including a large UK charity and a social enterprise.  

Jane Strother is a painter, living, working and exhibiting at Artweeks in Oxford since 1994. She has taken on the co-ordinator role in Headington in previous years. Since student days she has continued to develop her artwork, generally painting and printmaking, as a commercial illustrator for 18 years and as curriculum and tutor manager for Oxfordshire Adult Learning. She has a passion for twentieth century landscape painting and for being in the landscape. Both feed directly into her personal work and teaching. She is a studio painter in that she devises and builds a final image through many stages and layers of paint working from sketches made outdoors, photos and reflection. Once the subject is established, the form of the work takes precedent. ‘I am excited by composition, colour and value relationships, the quality of a mark and its location!’

Teaching is an important aspect of her life and she has experience of all ages, in schools and public and private organisations. Her aim is to support students to develop their own practice, build confidence, knowledge and ideas.