There is a sense of journey in all of the work in this show which features eight talented artists. Although none has taken the same journey or even used the same media, the impact each has had on the others’ work is seen by the way that this exhibition has been put together.

Carol McClellan’s Abandonment 1, 2, 3 captures the relics of rusty old objects, with a real understanding of colour and form that gives each piece strength, depth and poignancy. She is also showing work devoted to the toilette, including a quirky and amusing metre-high soft-sculpture of a toothbrush and toothpaste.

Neil Butterfield ‘found’ colour in India. Each of his pieces bursts with that colour as in The Astrologer’s House (above) where vibrant reds, golds and oranges are framed in lipstick pink, providing a sunset intensity of colour. The empty windows of the house and the surrounding buildings suggest otherness and mystery while the angles and shapes of the contrasting roofs help contain the whole.

By contrast, Kathleen Philson works in very muted colours, using these to create pieces with immense strength and presence. In A Fleeting Glimpse she uses oils and graphite on board to capture the miasma of half-remembered childhood. She fills most of the large square piece with a soft sand dune on which are standing three self-confident little girls, hair and dresses blowing in the wind, a confidence made fragile by the enormity of the sand and sky-scape around them.

The exhibition is at West Ox Arts, Bampton, and continues until October 23. It is open daily Tuesday to Saturday and on Sunday afternoons.