We are pleased to welcome you to The Bullpen - a family-run rural arts centre in the Vale of the White Horse in South Oxfordshire. The arts centre comprises gallery, studios and workshop room. Wesley & Helen Jacobs and Keith & Beth Jacobs began creating the Vale's contemporary arts centre in 2003, in partnership with local businessman John Logan. It has since grown steadily, with funding from grant awarding bodies and support from the local community.
What's New
The Big Draw in Stanford in the Vale
Date: Saturday 25 October
Time: 2 - 4 pm
Place: Drawing projects will be going on around Stanford in the Vale and at The Bullpen, Faringdon Road
Contact: Helen Jacobs 01367 718722
or email 
for more information.
Artists will be facilitating the activities at 'drawing stations' around The Bullpen and Stanford in the Vale - and everyone will be encouraged to get creative. Visitors can walk around the village to the different activities and arrive at The Bullpen on Mill Farm.
Be surprised and see how drawing can change the way you see yourself creatively!
Everyone can get involved in:
- large-scale collaborative outdoor weaving
- drawing with wire and shadows
- drawing and movement
- big drawings with big materials
This summer visitors saw the first Bronze Casting Workshop for artists take place. Artists worked for a week making moulds of their sculptures, which were then cast into bronze in The Bullpen Foundry. Visitors took part in workshops to design medals in cuttlefish-bone moulds. Many returned to see the bronze being poured into them, and went away with their own bronze medal.
A winter exhibition is planned at The Bullpen Gallery - and whilst waiting for details of our next grant funded workshop, we would warmly invite people to join in The Big Draw event! It will give new visitors the chance to see what we do at The Bullpen - and regular visitors the chance to bring along friends and neighbours.
We hope to see you there.