Guy Malet was a painter, wood engraver and writer. Malet came from a military background and after attending Downside School he went to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Part of Malet’s artistic training was with John Hassall, then in the late-1920s he studied with lain Macnab at the Grosvenor School of Modem Art, which marked his style as a wood engraver. This was his strongest medium. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Redfern Gallery, the New English Art Club, the Society of Wood Engravers of which he was a member and abroad. The British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, British, provincial and Commonwealth galleries hold his work He wrote on wood engraving for The Artist magazine. Lived in London and then later at Ditchling, Sussex