Surrey Arts Visual aims to support visual arts opportunities for all ages and abilities. We work with local artists and arts organisations to increase participation and initiate projects.
We hold an extensive database of local visual artists experienced in running workshops in a variety of settings. Artists range from feltmakers, sculptors, glass artists and printmakers. Whether we manage the workshops ourselves or source the artists on behalf of other organisations, the emphasis is on creativity, inclusion and learning new skills. Children aged between 8 - 11 years benefit from working with a different visual artist each term at our Junior Art School held at the Lightbox in Woking.
To be part of the Surrey Artists database, please contact us for a Surrey Artists Database Questionnaire. Artists will receive regular emails providing details of jobs, training and events. Each February we run a Surrey Artists Network event with speakers and break-out sessions. This provides an ideal opportunity to meet other local artists, and to gain useful information and advice. We also hold termly Visual Art Advice surgeries: please contact us for advice and a form.
Local artists and craftspeople can showcase their work, network with local artists and welcome the public into their studios every June through the Surrey Artists Open Studios.
If you are interested in publicising your artwork, networking with other artists, gaining access to opportunities and creative events, and gaining the opportunity to sell your work direct to the public, then join SAOS! We are a unique member organisation supporting artists in Surrey and its borders.
If you join SAOS in early November you can take advantage of our autumn training opportunity and be a part of the Christmas Open Studios publicity if you decide to open your studio to the public in the run up to Christmas.
Being a SAOS member means you will also be eligible to participate in the Surrey Artists Open Studios June 2012 event.
For more information and to sign up contact Caroline Jackman, Surrey Artists Open Studios Coordinator, at saosandopenstudios@yahoo.co.uk or call 01483 519281 or visit our website www.surreyopenstudios.org.uk.
The deadline for signing up for the June 2012 Surrey Artists Open Studios event is January 2012.
For the first time Surrey Artists Open Studios is coordinating Christmas Open Studios. Many of our SAOS members offer excellent gift ideas, so if you are looking for something unique and special please visit www.surreyopenstudios.org.uk and click on Christmas Open Studios.
Open studios is a great way to meet artists, discuss how they create their work and this is a great opportunity to find that special Christmas gift whether it is ceramics, original print-making, jewellery, paintings or textiles and all from local creative artists and makers.
The information of studios open will be published on-line only. Dates and times of studios open will vary. Each open studio will have contact details and easy to follow directions.
Surrey Arts researches and delivers public art initiatives across the county. Surrey Arts public art projects have included Garden Journeys, Contemporary Art in the Surrey Landscape and Imagination Pods and you can download details of these projects from this page.
Landscape Art Project
Art project - garden journeys
