Oxford’s O3 Gallery is hosting an exhibition of 26 pieces by those who teach art in the county, to adults or children. It provides an insight into the creative processes of the teachers and an opportunity to experience a rich and varied body of work executed to the highest standards.

Isobel Jasmine Baugh’s textile piece, Untitled, is the most beautiful dress displayed on a simple mannequin. A plain sleeveless top gives way to a skirt composed of a complex riot of crochet, weaving, appliqué and overstitching in blues, faded turquoises and gentle golds. A detail of that skirt is shown above.

In oils on canvas, David Bliss’s South Hinksey Water Meadows creates an upbeat vibrant panorama culminating in an ever-present pylon beyond, while Robin Hepworth focuses on the detail of a beautiful garden plant in Tall Bearded Iris ‘Braithwaite’.

The exhibition also features a range of contrasting installations. Truth Untold, Shirley Eccles’s installation, is based on the photograph album of a Second World War soldier, recording action seen and celebrating camaraderie.

Rhiannon Evans’s Untitled is a site-specific piece, filling one corner of the gallery, and using rope and thread displayed cobweb-like to symbolise the entanglements, the attempts to escape and incarceration that make up the legacy of Oxford Castle and this gallery that nestles within it.

By contrast, A.D. Pawley’s Digital Fossil, is a clever, amusing piece that uses a slate roof tile to present two digital codes, each of which subtly fades into the grey of the background. In Lying with Wolf, Sue Calcutt gives us a ceramic piece in raku where the lounging wolf, its fur a brittle silver, lies alongside a muted female form.

The exhibition is open daily from noon and continues until February 19.