Local people interested in printmaking are very lucky to have the Oxford Printmakers Co-operative. Not only does it offer facilities and technical support at its Tyndale Road premises and run courses for public and membership alike, but it also holds regular exhibitions at various venues.

Their latest is at the North Wall Arts Centre, St Edward’s School, Summertown, until March 7, and they have packed a lot into it, fitting 90 works into the gallery for an eye-catching and varied show.

“Many of our members have been extremely successful during the year,” says Elaine Williams, OPC’s exhibition co-ordinator. As with this show, representing only “the tip of the iceberg” of OPC’s recent successes, regretfully I too can only offer a few. I’ll focus therefore on three artists who have work on show here and accepted for the Originals 09 exhibition, the highlight of the printmaker’s calendar, at the Mall Galleries in London later this month.

Peter Lawrence is one. His large wood engraving, St Ives, is a wonderfully complex work, a box of delights that pays to look into. He says that its combination of the abstract and the real represents a relatively new direction. Inside its ‘collage’ you see a postcard of the town, a plan of the harbour area, homage to Ben Nicholson, a Barbara Hepworth sculpture, a street, a gull, sailing ships in a made-up Alfred Wallace, an abstract design of the Tate . . . .

Caroline Maas’s print Willesden Junction II is an outstanding yellow blue and black vision of a tube station. Lines, if not from railways, also play their part in her others here. A curving road cuts across the view looking Down from Wittenham. It has a formless faraway feel to it that, drawn in Caroline’s loose “scribbly”, as she says, style, is immensely appealing. As is the “crayon-ey effect” she creates in her new work, From Manaton Rocks on Dartmoor.

Josephine Sumner, a former illustrator who creates colourful linocuts of wildlife, each “with their own personality,” offers us a Giant Anteater (pictured) which was shown at the Society of Wildlife Artists Annual Exhibition last September), a monkey and a pelican.

Prints on show are for sale. Prices for a framed work range from £46 to £450; some are available unframed.