This cameo exhibition is drawn from a larger show – Marking Time. It brings together a selection of work by six embroidered textile artists and by their mentor Jean Littlejohn.

Each artist takes part in group discussions and tutorials which helps each of them, and each other, on their artistic journeys.

The result is a series of highly individual and exquisitely executed pieces, and an exhibition with an overarching synergy.

In Scarlet Crossing Jean Littlejohn creates a large wall hanging, in dark colours, striated by horizontal pathways and crossings comprised of lace-like strips, across which run flashes of red, becoming bolder and more prominent at the right-hand edge of the piece.

And deep into the fabric is woven a repetition of the words silk, satin, muslin, rags, echoes of the generations of people who have used the childish rhyme to try to predict future fortunes.

Cabinet Series, by Deb Jackson, is composed of six formal little pieces that explore corsets, shawls, shoes and children’s dresses.

All are executed in pale creams, each contained in its own frame.

In one, dissolving fragments of net form one panel of a long-lost corset, delicate lines of chain stitch just hold the whole thing together.

In another, barely visible, intricate beaded insects sit atop a calico-coloured base that has been finely stitched and re-stitched, as if to capture both histories and memories.

Jessica Abraham’s Facades IX-XI (pictured) is beautiful to look at. It is formed of three slim rectangular fabric panels, printed with images of apartment blocks some clearly derelict, others inhabited, in dark charcoal and chalky grey.

This urban backdrop is then overlaid with lines of smudgy graffiti that partly conceal the buildings, their state and identity, as the words rap out their own message.

Also on show are Diane Carrington’s fine 3-D forms, which use Gothic inspired Acanthus flowers and leaves to create substantial and temptingly tactile images, and Jackie Shail’s Blue Pool Yellow Stone 1, where the depth of the piece and the stunning blues, turquoises and golds used, explore the interplay between rocks and water and the impact each has on the other.

The exhibition is in The Gallery at The Theatre, Chipping Norton, and is open when The Theatre is and continues until Friday, February 20.