Five fine artists display both traditional and innovative ways of making and displaying stained glass, a craft that has embellished churches and cathedrals for over a thousand years. Sarianne Durie, a member of the Art Workers Guild, makes handmade coloured stained glass pieces. Currently on show are five large panels representing the elements: earth, air, fire, water and space, together they make a powerful group. Her love of nature is there in Oak Tree, made in memory of her husband, and in The Ring of Trees, based on Le Bois des Montiers in Normandy in shades of viridian, scarlet and amber. Most dramatic of all is her fanciful and decorative gold and cobalt blue bird.

Nicola Kantorowics was originally a textile designer, hence the striking patterned effects of her screens Held in metal frames the luminous blown glass gives a translucent, bubbly effect when placed by a window. In purples and dark greens Seed Pods has a central pink area that has been treated with acid to highlight the seed-heads. The milky glass at the centre of Seascape gives a semitranslucent effect to the blues and works beautifully.

Anne Arlidge brings an innovative, exciting approach to these age old skills. She uses recycled Dartington lead glass for her three-dimensional sculptured vegetables and fruit. Her vases, threaded with fine metal wires, have a delicate fluidity. Her panels Minnows 1 and 2, inspired by the Thames, are likened to “shafts of sunlight piercing the green depths and the glittering on the surface of the river”. They would look well in a bathroom as would her agile brown Jeremy’s Brother, that rises to the surface of his watery element. Daniella Wilson-Dunne’s exquisite small rainbow windows sparkle with light. Attracted by William Morris, Burn Jones and Tiffany her designs are wide ranging: literature, heraldry, the Bible and nature. Her stylised trees and her delicate tracery of florets glow as do her Edwardian Iris Panel, the rural Rushes and her mounted brightly row of coloured Sailing Boats. Having started life as a graphic designer Elaine Newson now makes mirrors, jewellery and lamps using stained glass and copper foil. Inspired by art deco and art nouveau she combines accuracy and artistic ability. Using semi-precious stones like jasper, amethyst and tiger-eye she designs stylish brooches, bracelets and earrings. Her brilliantly painted lamps, each made of two pairs of blue fish, meet in an orange/scarlet ground that would brighten any room.

West Ox Arts Gallery, Bampton, until March 29.