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A Paradise Garden: The Meaning of Medieval Plants in Art & The Nature of the Beast: Animals in Medieval Art - Fri 8th May 2026 - Yehudi Menuhin Hall In the Sunday Times magazine at the beginning of this year, Waldemar Januszczak wrote a two page lesson on how to look at a painting to get more meaning from it.  He wrote “Getting the most out of paintings involves a determination to go deeper.   When we look at a painting we look at somebody’s message. Not all those messages ar

Art between the Wars - Val WoodgateThursday 23 October 2025 Please join us for three lectures presented by Val Woodgate. Political and...

Have you ever wandered in a classy borough of London and thought how soul-less it all is? Similarly, some of the London’s Dickensian...

East Surrey Arts Society Special Interest Morning Ian Swankie Friday 06 June 2025 This is a chance for us to explore old and new as we...

Now that Autumn is here, we tend to put the garden to bed and retreat to the house. The delights of gardens and gardening need not be...

Ada Lovelace Day Live is back! The annual ‘science cabaret’ returns with a fantastic line-up of women in science, technology, engineering...

The Surrey Hills is a beautiful region on the edge of London, 40 minutes from Heathrow and Gatwick airports and where you can find Grange...