SOFO Museum is hosting three workshops inspired by Paul Joyce's approach to painting social memories of the Second World War, currently on display at the museum. We will look at a different aspect of his themes and inspiration in each workshop. Participants will have guidance on selecting from a range of images or can bring their own to create a highly colorized version of a black and white photograph of a scene.

We will work within the same constraints as Paul Joyce in painting landscape, vehicles or buildings, without people.

1 - Saturday 25 October 2025. Theme: From the Air. Landscape, fields of Oxfordshire.
2 - Saturday 1 November 2025. Theme: About Machines: Cowley Works, factories, wreckage or grounded planes.
3 - Saturday 8 November 2025. Theme: In the Streets: Houses, buildings, partly fallen, partly standing proud.

Each one will look at relevant Paul Joyce paintings and his sources and inspiration.

Tutor: Local artist Anita Joice. Anita recently led the Soldiers of Oxfordshire's workshop programme based on a creative responses to the Holocaust to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen

“I truly enjoyed the programme you organised in relation to Naomi and Arthur's story. It has been incredibly moving, inspirational, and creatively stimulating […] from discussions […] to looking at various artworks and the movement exercises.

It really touched me profoundly, and I not only learnt a lot about the war, survival, camp liberation process and its impact on soldiers but also about myself.” - Life Lines participant, Ania Ready, 2025

Costs £70.00 per day, includes all materials.

All Dates: Saturday 25 October, Saturday 1 November and Saturday 8 November 2025

Times 10-4pm Tea and Coffee on arrival.