Visit the Guildford Institute’s Assembly Room (locaiton of the V Cafe) to enjoy the work of two local artists:

ASKA GOUGH, Mixed Media Artist

Aska’s work explores the space between the organic and the synthetic, the rough and the smooth, blending natural materials such as stone or tree bark with epoxy resin or texture pastes. Precious stones play a key role for their subtle energy, symbolism, and beauty. Bark is also one of her favourite natural textures, speaking to endurance, grounding, and the living memory of the natural world.

MAI OSAWA, Printmaker

Trained as a set designer, important aspects in her work are ‘light’ and ‘dimensions’, which she uses to create a scene on to which the viewer can project their own stories and imagination.  She set up her own printmaking studio near Newdigate mainly to focus on less-toxic etching process and to advance my practice and help preserve precious etching techniques. One of her lifetime projects is to champion etching techniques that have been performed for centuries and have recently been radically updated to be less-toxic.