Art and technology are making a happy marriage at Oxford Centre for Innovation.

Manager Margaret Hewitt wanted the reception area and conference rooms to reflect the centre's forward-looking businesses, so she asked students from Oxford College of Further Education to provide some works of art.

She is pictured with Mark Burnett's piece entitled "Organic Mechanic". His work is particularly appropriate as it uses "found objects" including discarded computer parts. Ms Hewitt said: "It has has an almost biological appearance, with prominent textures reminding us of a fantastic scrapyard of modern technology."

She added: "Kay Cooper's work was particularly relevant to the centre as her two pieces, a screen and a wall hanging, featured printed circuit boards. It looked spectacular when displayed in the main conference room."

The micro-sized images were enlarged to take on an abstract, almost organic appearance and generated so much interest that they were snapped up for permanent display in the reception areas of the Cotswold Innovation Centre at Rissington, near Chipping Norton.

Visitors to the Oxford Centre for Innovation have bought many of the pieces, making way for new work and providing a welcome boost to the students' finances.