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Sunday 17 May 2026Partly cloudy with rain
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Artweeks – Nigel Fletcher
Local artist Nigel Fletcher's Spring Exhibition runs from 9th to 25th May this year, part …
Local artist Nigel Fletcher's Spring Exhibition runs from 9th to 25th May this year, part of Oxfordshire Artweeks.
Nigel writes: This year I've been experimenting from time to time with abstract or semi - abstract painting, I can't say I'm an expert at it but really enjoy the process, working with saturated colour and in a completely different way than I'm used to has been fun, frustrating and when it goes well - very exciting! and so I'll be framing 22 and looking forward to showing them to you.
And of course there will be plenty of new figurative paintings of local scenery and painting trips to the Norfolk coast etc.
Quaker Meeting
Please visit http://banburyeveshamquakers.org.uk/sibford for meeting and contact details.
Please visit http://banburyeveshamquakers.org.uk/sibford for meeting and contact details.
Artweeks
Come and visit a beautiful eco studio located in a pretty, village garden which houses …
Come and visit a beautiful eco studio located in a pretty, village garden which houses a jeweller, potter, a mixed media artist and a blacksmith who forges metal garden sculptures. Here you will see a huge variety of professionally made items covering all price points. This venue is part of the NGS (National Garden Scheme) so definitely worth coming to see.
Exhibiting artists: Nicola Durrant, Elly Dunford Wood, David Turner, Maya Callen-Franklin
Artweeks – Phyu Gordon & Rhiannon Evans
Phyu Gordon and Rhiannon Evans met whilst sharing the unique studio space of The Old …
Phyu Gordon and Rhiannon Evans met whilst sharing the unique studio space of The Old Mission Hall, Sibford Gower, Banbury, Oxfordshire, a building long associated with the local Society of Friends community. Their common concerns are the natural world, local and global culture, heritage and memory.
Phyu Gordon
Phyu is originally from Burma and her practice focuses on portrait paintings especially in water colour and the specialist technique of lacquer painting which she learnt in Vietnam. She will also be showing this process of making. She paints local landscape, natural images and still life in oil and acrylic as well.
Over the past 20 years she has lived in different countries and created paintings that reflect her experiences of people and cultures.
Rhiannon Evans
Rhiannon’s practice involves remediation of pre-existing imagery to make paintings and drawings on semi-transparent
materials. Her work takes on varying forms; from loose, unbound, unframed leaves, 3 – dimensional collaged sculptures and dynamic triptychs and references diverse historical traditions, archival methods and materials.
Her recent works engage with ideas of choice, possibility and the blurring of boundaries between technology, the natural world and community. Her aims is to encourage reflection on contemporary themes where she senses confusion and conflict in everyday life.
Private event
Yoga
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Partly cloudy with rain
Deadline for June Sibford Scene (noon)
Yoga
Artweeks – Nigel Fletcher
Local artist Nigel Fletcher's Spring Exhibition runs from 9th to 25th May this year, part …
Local artist Nigel Fletcher's Spring Exhibition runs from 9th to 25th May this year, part of Oxfordshire Artweeks.
Nigel writes: This year I've been experimenting from time to time with abstract or semi - abstract painting, I can't say I'm an expert at it but really enjoy the process, working with saturated colour and in a completely different way than I'm used to has been fun, frustrating and when it goes well - very exciting! and so I'll be framing 22 and looking forward to showing them to you.
And of course there will be plenty of new figurative paintings of local scenery and painting trips to the Norfolk coast etc.
Sibford Gower Annual Parish Meeting & Parish Council Meeting
7pm: Annual Parish Meeting The agenda is at SGPC APM Agenda 18.05.26 7.15pm approx: Annual …
7pm: Annual Parish Meeting
The agenda is at SGPC APM Agenda 18.05.26
7.15pm approx: Annual Parish Council Meeting
The agenda and related documents are at https://sibfordgower-pc.gov.uk/meetings/18th-may-2026/
Private event
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Artweeks – Nigel Fletcher
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Come and visit a beautiful eco studio located in a pretty, village garden which houses …read more
Artweeks – Phyu Gordon & Rhiannon Evans
Phyu Gordon and Rhiannon Evans met whilst sharing the unique studio space of The Old …read more
Artweeks – Nigel Fletcher
Sibford Gower Annual Parish Meeting & Parish Council Meeting
7pm: Annual Parish Meeting
The agenda is at SGPC APM Agenda 18.05.26
7.15pm approx: Annual …read more
Artweeks – Nigel Fletcher
Artweeks – Nigel Fletcher
Sibford Strollers
We leave the Village Hall car park on foot or by car at 10am sharp…read more
Artweeks – Nigel Fletcher
Sibford Ferris Annual Parish Meeting
Please see below the agenda for the Annual Meeting of Sibford Ferris Parish.
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Sibford Ferris Parish Council Meeting
The agenda and associated documents for the May meeting of Sibford Ferris Parish Council can be found below.
Sibford Ferris Parish Annual Parish Meeting
Please see below the agenda for the Annual Meeting of Sibford Ferris Parish.
The Secret Lives of Swifts
Sibford Gower Parish Council Meeting
The agenda and associated documents for the next meeting of Sibford Gower Parish Council can be found using the link below:
Shrubfest 2026
OK guys, tickets are now available to purchase for this family event supporting the Brain Tumour Charity.
Contact Nicola Durrrant at nic
Tickets are £8 …read more
Sibford Gower Annual Parish Meeting
Please see below the agenda for the Sibford Gower Annual Parish Meeting.
Sean Woodcock MP April Update
Please see below a summary from Sean Woodcock MP on his work through April 2026.
Cerys Upstone
Policy and Communications Officer for Sean Woodcock MP
Email: cerys.upstone
Between the end …read more
International Space Station
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Notes:
- The "up to" figure is a measure of the maximum height of the ISS in the sky, between 0° (the horizon) and 90° …read more
The Sibfords Newsletters
Our daily newsletters provide the local weather forecast and list upcoming village events, new planning applications, etc. Subscribe here!
The Town Estate Charity
A Helping Hand for Sibford Gower and Burdrop Residents
The Town Estate Charity (Sibford Gower and Burdrop) has been part of our community since around 1560. It was set up …read more
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Voices from the past
21 years ago
the Sibford Scene in July 2005
Save Our Trees: While I support Suzy Straw's plea for us to save as many of our mature and beautiful trees as possible, …
Save Our Trees
While I support Suzy Straw’s plea for us to save as many of our mature and beautiful trees as possible, I am responding to her letter in the June edition of Sibford Scene, as I was responsible – and still feel miserable about it – for the felling of our wonderful beech last Autumn.
For nearly a year I lived with the words of the Cherwell District Council tree specialist ringing in my ears (“Beech trees can just fall with no warning”; “If I lived over there, I would move to a tent to the far end of the garden” etc.,) whilst I tried to find someone to reassure me that the tree would not be a hazard to the families living opposite Malvern House.
The beech, which was growing on the edge of a wall and had only 50% of the normal space for its roots, had apparently been planted as part of a hedge and then allowed to mature into its extraordinary shape. We miss the beautiful canopied arch of the beech over Main Street, Sibford Ferris as much as anyone and we certainly miss the privacy it provided.
Our majestic lime tree, however, similarly situated in a wall, will remain, as we are told it is more secure, and if it did fall, it would probably land on our house or in Arnold and Ina’s wild flower meadow – not quite such a worry as the consequences of the beech falling on the houses opposite.
One of the specialists whose advice we sought, explained that the beech and the lime were fine trees for a meadow, but with the meadow long gone and the building in the village increasing at such an extraordinary rate, it is best to plant trees more suited to smaller garden spaces.
Jane Woolfenden
153 years ago
Reverend Stevens's diary for Saturday 19 April 1873
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Sibford Gower looking north up Colony Road

Sibford Gower looking north up Colony Road


