Art enthusiasts can take a textured trip down the River Thames at a new exhibition in Abingdon.

The Thames – Shifting Perspectives has opened at Abingdon County Hall Museum and highlights the work of the nine textile artists of HapticArt.

Visitors can see the great waterway in ways they have never thought of before, including an historic trip down the river through the ages using tea bags.

Jane O’Brien has taken 16 map images of the Thames from different centuries and turned them into tea bags.

She said the mug-sized artworks in the Thames in a Teabag piece represent the history of trade along the river.

The Cutty Sark was perhaps the most famous ship that carried tea from the Far East to London via the Thames, and is now used as a museum in Greenwich.

Mrs O’Brien, of Summertown, Oxford, added: “I wanted to bring out that huge body of water as a method of transport.

“The Thames is very British, it’s the heart of London, and tea is something that is very British – probably almost everyone handles a tea bag in Britain almost every day.”

The 65-year-old is one of nine artists in the HapticArt group, and almost all the pieces on display at the museum, in Market Place, use textiles in one way or another.

She said: “It’s a wonderful collection of people’s interpretations of the Thames using mixed mediums.”

The show runs at the museum in Market Place until December 20.