More than 100 artists and makers are preparing for new exhibitions and studio events in November as Oxfordshire Artweeks presents a Christmas Art Weekend, a new venture for this open studios event, the longest-running and biggest of its kind in the UK.

A selection of the county’s painters and photographers, glass workers, metal sculptors, wood turners, stone carvers, jewellers, print makers and textile artists will be opening their homes and studios and presenting their seasonally inspired art to the public for free, showcasing their talent at two day exhibitions across Oxfordshire on 23rd and 24th November (11am-6pm), the perfect time to pick up original locally-crafted gifts before the seasonal festivities begin.

With shining silverware from the Jewellery and Silver Society of Oxford alongside free-range turkeys at Abingdon’s Peachcroft farm; giftware in The Gallery at Waterperry Gardens; metal trees adorned with baubles in a loft gallery at Ascott-under-Wychwood and colourful paintings to beat the blues at the appropriately named Archangel house in Cumnor to name just a few, there’ll be plenty to surprise and delight everybody this Christmas.

Art aficionados and everyday enthusiasts alike are invited into dozens of houses and art spaces on the 23rd and 24th November (11-6pm) to discover art inspired by nature and local scenes, world travels and seasonal celebrations.