Bucks Art Weeks logo

Membership galleries

Our Bucks Artists and Makers members have an online gallery of additional images, a more detailed biography and details of where else you might see their work throughout the year. Search here by artist / organisation name, medium or a keyword to find out more.

Gallery search form

Within View 2 Acrylic on cradled panel 8 x 8 ins

Debbie Perry

Drawing, Painting

Dhani, beside the Monstera, detail. Oil on canvas, 50cm x 60cm.

Joanna Stone

Drawing, Painting, Sculpture

Ian Austin

Photography

Erica Shipley

Drawing, Mixed media, Painting, Printmaking

Covered Market Oxford. Walking into a Living Novel. This could be a scene from a Dickensian novel. With a lady wearing a long skirt walking beside a gentleman in silhouette. Everything about the painting screams history and old architecture. It’s easy to miss the covered market in Oxford, but once you find it, it’s like stepping back in time. How far back, you may wonder? I’ll tell you, but first let me show you how I see it. Oxford’s covered market is a hidden oasis of small shops and boutiques, alongside traditional butchers and greengrocers. In an age of supermarkets, these specialist shops with their traditional functions, are harder to find. Small towns and regions hold on to some them, but the competition from the big guys is fierce. Fortunately, human nature is such that small specialist providers will always spring up. This is a place that encourages niche shops. Created in a time before literacy was widespread. The boot, as a symbol for the cobblers, caught my eye. Words are good, but with a symbol as clear as a boot, you know it’s a cobbler, and although this may be a more recent addition, such devices were once all that was required and still used, even today. One other shop can be identified, The hat box, not common sight in the modern world. In the distance is Bonners, the last of many greengrocer’s. Sadly it closed in December 2025. Most of the shops retain the iron rails outside. Used for hanging goods on display which are taken down at the end of the day. Living with History My first encounter with the covered market was during my student days. It was a good place to get fruit and veg, and the first time I had ever seen game and feathered birds hung up outside the many butchers shops. Something of a shock to me as game birds weren’t common where I grew up. After shopping, there followed a heavily laden bike ride down St Aldates and the Abingdon road. It was often slow, wobbly, but, mercifully, mostly downhill. The Covered market building itself, features nothing especially different from spaces built all over Britain. That red roof gives it a festive feel in the depth of winter or height of summer. It’s a communal space, away from the whims of climate. An oasis in the summer and shelter from the rain and snow come winter, or just another shortcut from one place to another. When did it all begin? According to the Covered Market’s website, “The building dates back to the 1770s and has a long, varied and interesting heritage. In 1772, the original market committee accepted an estimate for nine hundred and sixteen pounds and ten shillings for the building of twenty butchers shops. John Gwynn, the architect for Magdalen Bridge, drew up the plans and designed the High Street frontage. Twenty more shops soon followed and grew into the delight it is now.” Find out more. More about the painting A visually busy scene, I regretted started it on many occasions. With so many windows, it seemed to take forever to reach the painting stage. Few people are about. The central couple walk on, taking in the scene. Oblivious to their reflections, ghosts of themselves follow invisible paths, all adding to the paintings, Dickensian feel. Of all things, it’s the roof that steals the your attention, the colour, the shape, the light and the glorious clock telling us it’s 3:30pm. The whole composition draws you along a path inwards. Towards the couple and beyond to the yellow glow around Bonners the greengrocers. We’re walking through the covered market without taking a single step. Which way would you like to go now?

Cathy Read Art

Mixed media

Wendy Hopcroft

Painting

'Snowdrops in a cup' an original handpulled lino print

Nathalie Pymm

Painting, Printmaking

'Keep Flying...' The hummingbird is a symbol for accomplishing that which seems impossible. Acrylic on canvas 30 x 20 x 1.5 cm £30

Natalie Bartrum

Painting

Sarah Annetts

Painting

Oil paint on board

Sue Nowlan

Drawing, Mixed media, Painting

Baobab, South Africa - photography

Geoff Shaw

Metalwork, Painting, Photography, Sculpture

Rachel Wright

Textiles

Bicycle and Vines

Mary Leach

Painting

Sarah Brason

Mixed media, Painting

Heritage day , Old Amersham

Paul Chappell

Drawing, Illustration, Painting

Susi London

Painting

Ceramic Vases by Caroline Oden

Where Inspiration Blooms

Ceramics, Drawing, Gallery owner, Mixed media, Multi-disciplinary, Painting, Printmaking, Textiles, Willow weaving

Etching: The Warrior's Return (Procne and Philomela greet their father, King Pandion of Athens)

Anne Keleny

Painting, Printmaking

Morning Walk

Jane Craig Walker

Photography

Large illustrate plate

Heidi Inez

Ceramics, Drawing, Illustration, Mixed media

Restored Beithcraft Serpentine drawers

Emma Adams at KayuCo

Furniture, Wood

Adrian Hobbs

Digital art, Photography

Sallie Miller

Painting, Textiles

Cathy Timbrell

Jewellery, Metalwork

Celtic Coastal Calm

Field View Studio

Mixed media

Bill Senior

Drawing, Mixed media, Painting

Will Wheeler

Painting

Statement abstract art

Mixed media, Painting

Chris Noel

Printmaking

Be Still. Just Growing 1. Funky plant on vivid pink background.

Fiona Ryan-Watson

Mixed media, Painting

Natalie Whillans

Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Sculpture

Raised bowl

Caroline Newland-Smith

Ceramics, Sculpture

Mary Perkins

Glass, Jewellery, Painting

Watercolour

Susan Rawlinson

Painting

Katrina Shearlaw

Ceramics, Gallery owner, Glass, Sculpture

Amanda Curbishley

Drawing, Jewellery, Painting

Sarah Hanner Hopwood

Mixed media, Painting

The Walk - Relief print

Helen Boden

Printmaking

Kate Wilkinson

Jewellery

Roots of Love

Sally McIver

Mixed media, Painting

platter with foot, stoneware, dry blue glaze

Sally Dorrity

Ceramics

Porthleven Silhouette, Cornwall

Chris Logan

Drawing, Illustration, Mixed media, Painting

Sally Bulteel

Drawing, Painting, Printmaking

Abstract Landscape – collage and acrylic

Diane Large

Mixed media, Painting

Load More