The sun shines out of almost every picture on show at the Iona Gallery, Woodstock. Maybe that’s because the title of the exhibition is The English Landscape. The show features work by six eminent landscape artists, including Ian Staples who lives and works in north Oxfordshire.

Ian works in oils – his pictures glow with the vibrant yellow that settles on a scene when the midday sun falls on a field of wheat. It is possible he has captured the yellow glow of a field of rape in full flower too.

Emerson Mayes also fills his brush with yellow, having mixed it with the many greens that light up the English landscape in midsummer. Using bold strokes, he highlights the beauty that is all around us if we care to look. His Summer Shade is particularly evocative; it captures the delights of a cool stream one could come across unexpectedly while walking the countryside.

It’s the wild foxgloves in Amanda Hoskin’s oil paintings that makes them so special. Amanda has the knack of using minute spots of paint to add layers of colour to her landscapes. Her Summer Flowers on the Coastal Path, Gwithian, created from oil on paper, is simply stunning. The soft pink of the foxgloves, set against a blue summer sky and among the wild coastal grasses, makes for a stunning picture. Her paintings develop following many hours spent walking, observing and sketching the Cornish coastline. Amanda’s vision is to produce a visual record of these journeys.

Colin Carruthers, who also works in oils, endeavours to capture the atmosphere, sounds, smells and sensations of a setting. He certainly achieves this aim, most particularly in his Looking Towards Oxfordshire, with its dancing clouds that break up the blue summer sky set against a rural landscape. He applies the paint thickly, and in doing so achieves that depth of colour only experienced in high summer.

On entering the gallery you will spot a remarkable ceramic piece that depicts a Jersey Cow and its calf (above). They are the work of Elaine Petas who has managed to capture that softness of eye that makes a Jersey cow so distinct and beautiful.

The exhibition continues until July 12. Should you wish to view it online go to www.ionahousegallery.org