The Wychwood area is rich in the raw materials of creative inspiration. Its clustered villages are built from local stone, as are the dry stone walls which punctuate its hills and watermeadows. Wood crafts still lurk in the forest.

Today, we can still make art which is connected to our surroundings, however much those surroundings might have changed. The slow art for which so many thirst is art which has a sense of place. This could mean a group of musicians getting together in the pub, or a solitary carver feeling their way towards their next creation as they walk across the landscape, or a gardener standing back and admiring their work and the beauty that surrounds it.

New traditions are as important as old ones. Sometimes we think we’ve invented something new - the Swinbrook to Asthall raft race, for example - only to discover that we have unconsciously picked up the threads of something enjoyed by our predecessors.

Tell us what you have made, or what you have seen, felt, heard or touched - and loved.