For Jane Hope paintings are everywhere – in San Francesco with electric wires silhouetted against the clear sky or Oxford with bare branches. In her rich allotment her onions have pride of place with their curly roots while her spring Cabbages, seen from an unusual perspective, snuggle down in their trug. Her Blue Colander with Pink Ladies (pictured) is a delight.

Fascinated by objects that have a history, Chrissie Borland always homes in on something that has a personal meaning for her like Cecil’s Toffee Knife and Mary’s Pearls.

The latter belonged to her mother-in-law together with its silver incense burner and Chinese linen napkin. Caught in the “intensity of her gaze” her beautifully painted dead Robin is captured forever in this touching small oil painting.

Kerry von Zschock’s is known for her unusual ceramics that reflect her love of landscape and particularly the Cornish coast. Three of her bowls illustrate a walk she took from Tintagel to Boscastle with its undulated coastal walls, styles, hills and shadows enhanced with lines from the “shipping forecast that float among brush strokes of slip and oxides”.

Muriel Mallows is an assured and a fine artist who has had successful shows around the country.

Her collection of small classic oils of domestic scenes are a delight with their subtle colours and good composition.

Neville Crowson studied under William Coldstream and Lucien Freud. Like them he sees his work as “the relationship between shape, light and colour”. Painting directly from life each of his vibrant oils tells a story like Writing Desk that is waiting for him to begin his work while the trees in his garden are reflected outside. His acrylic picture, the Empties dominated by the huge red basket is filled to the brim with bright cartons of ruby red, pineapple and orange juice. Delicious! West Ox Arts Gallery, Bampton, until May 24, 10.30am to 4.30pm and Sunday 2pm to 4.40pm.