arts crafts food gardening Short Courses music November 2010 – May 2011 creative writing Events 5 Full-time Programmes and 25 Pottery and ceramics 47–48 Friends of West Dean 64 Continuing professional Learn a skill, make a gift days 6–7 development courses in Sculpture 49–52 Chronological list 65–66 Contents conservation of courses Foundation diploma in 8 Automata making, clocks 49 art and design Creative writing 26–27 B&B at West Dean 34 and puppetry Booking information 67–68 Carving in stone and wood 49–50 and fees Winter School – 9 Food 28–29 Metalworking 35–42 Modelling, casting and other 50–51 Visual Storytelling techniques BOOKING form 69 Food days 28 Blacksmithing and 35–36 Art 10–20 Food courses 28–29 metalworking Cancellation Protection & 70–71 Textiles 52–58 West Dean College Terms Botanical art and illustration 10 Enamelling 36–37 Gardening and 30–32 Embroidery, sewing and stitch 52–53 and Conditions Drawing 10–12 Jewellery 37–39 garden design Painting, printing and dyeing 54 Painting 12–17 Silversmithing 39–41 ACCOMMODATION FEES 71 Garden lectures 30 Make your own wedding rings 41 Constructed textile 55–57 Printmaking 17–19 techniques Garden courses 30–32 Basketmaking and 21–22 Music and music 42–44 appreciation Woodworking and 59–63 willow work Glass and mosaics 33–35 furniture making Music 42–43 Glass 33–34 Furniture related 59–60 Books, paper and lettering 22–24 Music appreciation 43 Mosaics 34 Woodcarving and turning 60 Bookbinding, papermaking 22–23 Photography, film and 44–46 Wood related courses 61–62 AND paper marbling animation Musical instrument making 62 Calligraphy and lettercutting 23–24 Photography and digital 44–46 image manipulation Film and animation 46 Short courses West Dean Today
Loyal students are being joined Booking a course has never been easier – it West Dean College today enjoys an international reputation for providing by an increasing number of new is now possible to book online or to book last full-time MA degrees, diplomas and short courses for students, from students who have discovered minute over the telephone. All courses are beginner to the advanced professional in art, craft, music, writing, West Dean via word of mouth listed in this prospectus and on our informative and through fantastic editorials website, along with course details, so you gardening food and conservation. in the national press – a can browse and forward plan at anytime. wonderful tribute to our Tutors. The West Dean Experience explore new subjects and ideas, develop The College is situated at the heart of skills and make practical and beautiful The Winter School sets out to bring together the 6,400-acre West Dean Estate, set things. We are also helping more the art of storytelling with craft practice. amongst the stunning landscape of the An added benefit is that if you book undergraduate students to learn new making Students bring extraordinary ideas to life South Downs National Park. online in full you are entitled to a 5% With its large country house style, discount off the brochure price. skills that are difficult to find elsewhere.O ur through automata, puppet-making, illustration, it offers a creative educational This Winter season we are offering an new Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, narrative jewellery, pop-up books and environment, enabling you to escape exciting selection of courses including: the pressures of daily life and to learn the Winter School which features the launched less than a year ago, has been an animation. Evening ‘walkabout’ sessions are new skills in an informal, relaxed most popular courses from last year immediate hit with mature students who wish to a highlight of the four days when everyone atmosphere within a spectacular setting. alongside new courses that explore Courses normally last between one storytelling through different arts take their studies in a more serious and structured has a chance to see work in progress, listen to to five days and can be either non- and crafts; the ‘Learn a Skill, Make a way and with sixth form students who have presentations by talented tutors and attend residential or residential. Gift’ days enabling you to learn a new decided that creative practice, in some form, puppet shows by fellow students. The Winter The award-winning West Dean Gardens skill and come away with at least one and landscaped parkland ensure that finished Christmas gift item. is what they wish to study in greater depth. School is a seasonal treat for all those who wish you are surrounded by a remarkable Create… All West Dean courses are to explore the magical world of storytelling. setting and range of artefacts which taught by practicing professionals, many many of the tutors use as inspiration of whom are world renowned in their The specialist workshops and studios When you add to this vibrant mix our full- for project work. field. Numbers of students on courses at West Dean are among the best- equipped in the UK and include a time postgraduate students who regularly Robert Pulley Principal Learn… West Dean College offers over are kept low to ensure that you have the pottery, forge, fine metals workshop, 700 short courses each year covering space and time needed to best develop attend short courses it is easy to understand two naturally-lit art studios, the brightly- a vast range of subjects from pottery, your skills and knowledge. View our lit Orangery and sculpture courtyard, why so many people believe West Dean is mosaic making, textiles, printmaking, tutor profiles and images of their work purpose built for stone carving and and furniture making, through to, on our website for inspiration when unparalleled in its diversity and quality. related materials. There is also a metalworking and creative writing. choosing a course. Computer Suite and a specialist arts- From just £42, you can come and based Library.
2 Fees listed for each course are non-residential – please see page 71 for accommodation costs | Short Courses November 2010–May 2011 0844 4994408 | [email protected] | on-line booking at www.westdean.org.uk 3 Stay… We recommend you take fruit and yoghurt. Breakfast includes a College’s full-time students can attend advantage of the residential selection of hot choices, fruit, yoghurt short courses to enhance their full-time accommodation offered at West and cereals. learning. at West Dean Dean which includes 58 comfortably Events All our ingredients are traceable The full-time Diploma courses have furnished rooms, situated either and, where possible, sourced locally Open Workshops on Tuesdays 1.30 – in the main house or in the nearby including seasonal fruit and vegetables 2pm offering you the chance to see vicarage. Some of the rooms feature from the West Dean Gardens. what our MA & Diploma Students are antique furniture, private bathrooms working on. and/or views over the surrounding Relax… As a residential short course GARDEN EVENTS 2010 CONCERTS 2010 Gardens, whilst others have a more student you can relax and unwind at The Tapestry Studio at West Dean contemporary feel. You can even stay an the end of the day next to a roaring log is one of only a small number of West Dean Gardens features a beautiful extra night before or after your course. fire in the Oak Hall or sink into one of professional tapestry studios in the parkland walk and arboretum with INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL/open day/ Partners who are not attending courses the comfortable sofas in the Steward’s world. It is open to the public on views over the surrounding Sussex Bar, where you can have a drink, read Wednesdays between 1.30 – 2pm. Masterclass Series and concerts are welcome to stay at the College, Downs and a carefully restored walled Sponsored by Classical Guitar Magazine and D’Addario sharing your room on a resident-only the papers or enjoy a board game. Several of the full-time weavers kitchen garden with row upon row of basis. Dinner and breakfast is included Alternatively, you may wish to book a tutor tapestry in the Short Course perfect produce and some of the finest CONCERT BY BEN VERDERY GC1528 in your stay and you have access to the massage with our in-house masseur or programme. Victorian glasshouses in the country. Saturday 21 August, 8pm, St Andrew’s book a place on a yoga class. house and gardens whilst here. Church, West Dean, £12 Explore… Whatever the season or the Events planned for 2010 to celebrate its time of day, a stroll through the historic produce and passion: CONCERT BY BERTA ROJAS GC1529 and listed 90 acre-West Dean Gardens Sunday 22 August, 8pm, St Andrew’s offers breathtaking views. Fabulous CHILLI FIESTA 6, 7 and 8 August Church, West Dean, £12 gifts or mementos of your stay can be purchased from the West Dean Gardens TOTALLY TOMATO SHOW 4 and 5 CONCERT BY ROLAND DYENS GC1530 Shop. September Monday 23 August, 8pm, St Andrew’s Discover… West Dean College also Church, West Dean, £12 runs a series of full-time diploma APPLE AFFAIR 2 and 3 October MASTERCLASS WITH ROLAND DYENS courses, including MAs validated by CONCERT BY THE MANDOLINQUENTS GC1532 the University of Sussex. Students from As part of the Apple Affair weekend, the State GC1531 Tuesday 24 August, 8pm, Sussex Barn around the world come here to study Rooms at West Dean College are thrown Wednesday 25 August, 8pm, Sussex Barn Auditorium, West Dean College, £10 the conservation of books, buildings, open to the public, these rooms are dressed ceramics, clocks, furniture and metals, and art works usually under lock and key Auditorium, West Dean College, £12 GUITAR OPEN DAY GC1533 Eat… Among the highlights for those complemented by programmes in brought out for show. staying at West Dean, are the fabulous making stringed musical instruments Sunday 22 August, 12pm–6pm, West Dean seasonal, self-service meals. There is and furniture. New for 2010/11 is our GARDEN EVENT TICKETS College and St. Andrew’s Church, West a choice of two hot main courses (one MA in Creative Writing (subject to Adult £7.50 (PLUS CONC.) Dean, £10 vegetarian) for both lunch and dinner, validation). Chilli fiesta £8.50 (on door) Exhibition – Shop – Recitals – Masterclass homemade soups, locally-baked breads You can specialise in Tapestry and £7.50 (in advance) and an exceptional salad bar as well as Textile Art, Sculpture or Painting and Opening Times: 10.30am–5pm a selection of delicious puddings, fresh Drawing on the MA in Visual Arts. The
AFTERNOON MUSIC LECTURES CHICHESTER WRITING FESTIVAL
A CONDUCTOR’S EAR ON LISTENING SL1762 Short Course Bursaries 5 March, 2.30–5.00, £12 including tea A thought-provoking look at how we listen to music – including the historical perspective interested in for many years, and I Bursaries are now available together with contemporary trends and had great fun at West Dean too. The for undergraduates and recent teaching, facilities and environment possible new ventures in the future. This graduates of creative subjects. are all excellent, and it was amazing afternoon illustrated talk and discussion, how much we did in such a short time. suitable for newcomers to classical music Please either download a form I would never have been able to go on and experienced listeners, aims to enhance from our website or contact this course without a bursary, and it has appreciation of the structure and subtleties made a great difference to my studies. of major classical works. Alison Baxter for further I am going to be using what I learnt JOHN GIBBONS information: alison.baxter@ at West Dean during the final year of my degree, and indeed long after that. HOW TO LISTEN TO MUSIC WITH GOLD AND SILVER – THE LIFE AND MUSIC westdean.org.uk 01243 818262 HAZEL THORN GREATER PERCEPTION SL1591 OF LEHAR LEHÁR SL1808 Antonia Fraser © Sue Greenhill Testimony from bursary recipients 13 November, 2.30–5.00, £12 including tea 27 March, 2.30–5.00, £12 including tea in 2010 attending ‘An introduction Friday 24 – Sunday 26 September 2010 to Mokume Gane’. Learning new skills and developing my work is extremely important as a combined with each student being A fascinating afternoon with international From the sparkling gaiety of pre-1914 ‘The As part of the Chichester Writing Festival I’m studying Jewellery & Silversmithing full time designer/maker. West Dean allowed to work at their own pace made conductor John Gibbons, Principal Merry Widow’ to the tragic sensuality of his there are three headline ‘An Audience With’ at Edinburgh College of Art and this enabled me to take part in a Mokume the course enjoyable and rewarding. Conductor of Worthing Symphony later works, Franz Lehár greatly enriched sessions with international bestselling author year I had the fantastic opportunity Gane masterclass with the help of a The experience has been invaluable to Orchestra. Musical examples abound, as the operetta repertoire, but he also wrote Kate Mosse (Labyrinth, Sepulchre) and literary to learn a technique that I had been bursary. The high standard of teaching my practice. SHIVANI PATEL well as humour, discussion and thought- sonatas, symphonic poems, marches superstars in the Sussex Barn Auditorium. provoking analysis and comment. Perfect for and waltzes. Using musical and visual anyone intrigued by classical music! illustrations we examine his fascinating life. For details on the weekend programme please JOHN GIBBONS IAN GLEDHILL see page 26
4 Fees listed for each course are non-residential – please see page 71 for accommodation costs | Short Courses November 2010–May 2011 0844 4994408 | [email protected] | Tickets can be booked on-line at www.westdean.org.uk 5 LEARN A SKILL Christmas cards and other prints Make a ceramic plant container November 11 November 11 MG1577 | £87 MG1579 | £92 Beginners Suitable for all Learn lino cutting and hand-printing skills Create and decorate a unique, frost- and then produce several individual prints. proof plant container for a garden using arah Macraearah Make a S DALE DEVEREUX BARKER stoneware clays and simple techniques. GORDON COOKE n n so
Keum Bo earrings November 11 Christmas themed gifts using Peter Parki Peter gift days MG1578 | £94 | NEW machine embroidery Suitable for all November 11 Make a pair of beautiful contemporary MG1580 | £87 | NEW Keum Bo – fusing gold foil onto silver Beginners Small-scale forging – key rings On these one-day courses The days start at 9.15am – drop earrings, including shaping and Draw with your sewing machine to November 13 texturing. create embroidered fabric gifts such as MG1590 | £92 | NEW everyone learns a new skill and and finish at 3.45pm with all SARAH MACRAE small pictures, ‘cake skirts’ or Christmas Beginners stockings. Try out the basic hot forging processes and comes away with at least one materials, lunch, tea and coffee JANET CLARE make at least one personalised mild steel key ring. finished item making ideal gifts included in the price. PETER PARKINSON Make a ragwork cushion November 11 for Christmas. MG1581 | £84 Beginners Japanese paper crafts Learn ragwork techniques and turn November 7 recycled scraps of fabric into a textured MG1568 | £97 | NEW little cushion with a jolly flag edge. Suitable for all DEBBIE SINISKA Make beautiful showpiece boxes and flowers from traditional Japanese washi paper using the ancient art of paper folding. MARI ONO C ooke
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Spool-knitted wire bracelet with et n ordo G beads Ja November 8 MG1570 | £92 | NEW Beginners Using coloured metal wire, knit a tube o shaped bracelet and learn how to add beads to your design. TERI HOWES Mari On
Enamelled copper pendant or Enamelled silver earrings An enchanting place Christmas decoration November 10 November 9 MG1575 | £90 West Dean is an enchanting place portrait busts to lettercarving – MG1571 | £88 Beginners at any time of year – whether the quality of the teaching that Beginners Learn basic enamelling techniques and snowdrops, crocuses and aconites has drawn me back. Though they Learn basic enamelling skills and produce make a pair of simple drop earrings in a day. a large pendant or decoration to hang with SHEILA R MCDONALD carpet the ground under the grand have very different styles and ribbon or suede. trees of the park or tomatoes temperaments, all my teachers at SHEILA R MCDONALD and chillies are ripening in the West Dean have had three things 3D stitched Christmas berries brooch walled garden. And it is a delight in common: excellence in the November 10 to take time off from one’s work practice of their own art, a helpful Crochet a wire necklace with beads MG1576 | £92 | NEW to wander the spacious grounds or regard for each student’s particular November 9 Beginners the grand and curious house itself. interests, and (what is rare in a MG1572 | £92 Learn how to make a small bunch of Beginners berries and leaves from seed beads and The food is excellent, the staff lax world) an exacting eye that Follow the tutor’s step-by-step instructions embroidery. Choose from holly, mistletoe, friendly, the bar well-attended. brings out the best from all those from casting on to giving your piece a blackberries or raspberries. attending their courses. professional finish. SHELLEY COX But it is, for someone who has TERI HOWES taken several short courses in Vikram Seth sculpture here – from stone to bronze to steel to clay, from
6 Fees listed for each course are non-residential – please see page 71 for accommodation costs | Short Courses November 2010–May 2011 0844 4994408 | [email protected] | on-line booking at www.westdean.org.uk 7 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design awarded by West Dean College Visual storytelling NOVEMBER 15–19 Following the success of last year’s winter school, the most popular
Develop your portfolio of art and design courses are repeated and running alongside are new courses that skills on West Dean’s Foundation Diploma explore storytelling through different arts and crafts: automata, in Art and Design. puppet making, jewellery, illustration, pop-up art and animation. The West Dean College Foundation Diploma is primarily designed to prepare Each course stands alone but there are A highlight of the four days are the post A-level/National Diploma students to make a direct application for entry opportunities to share ideas with those ‘walkabout’ evening sessions when all to an Art and Design related degree on other courses, which will enrich your students have a chance to see work in programme. Under the guidance and instruction of an array of highly qualified, experience. progress and each tutor gives an informal specialist tutors, you will be given the presentation including puppet shows. opportunity to develop a rich and varied portfolio of work, to a standard that will maximise your chances of gaining entry Simple automata Limited edition – create your own to your chosen degree. You can select 4D1592 | £364 pop-up book from a wide range of disciplines to ensure Suitable for all 4D1597 | £369 | NEW that your portfolio reflects your areas ROBERT RACE See page 49 Suitable for all of interest and talents, with your future PAUL JOHNSON See page 22 career aspirations at the forefront. Stop motion animation 4D1593 | £366 | NEW Shadow puppet theatre The West Dean Foundation Diploma is also ideal for anyone considering a career Suitable for all 4D1598 | £364 Suitable for all change and, if you have a first degree in any subject, completion of the Foundation WILL BISHOP-STEPHENS See page 46 ELEANOR GLOVER See page 49 Diploma would enable you to apply to study on the Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts at West Dean. Narrative jewellery – a personal The Foundation Diploma is awarded in recognition of the successful completion of story ten short courses from those marked with in the brochure and the submission of a 4D1594 | £354| NEW final 2,000 word essay.T he essay consists of a statement that demonstrates the link Intermediate/Advanced between your experience gained from the short courses and your intended studies. BARBARA CHRISTIE See page 37 n n so oh Fees: £1600 non-residential. j
From this pool of short course attendance, aul it is compulsory to attend a minimum Accommodation for a weekend, p of four from the Art section of our including dinner & breakfast, is available from £91. programme. Two tutorials will be given by Make a puppet and bring it to life a senior tutor as part of the Diploma and 4D1595 | £371 students will also have the opportunity to Beginners/Intermediate attend lectures that are held throughout ISOBEL SMITH See page 49 the year at West Dean. A small number of dedicated events for Foundation students For more information contact Key to course codes will be organised outside the published Pictures and prose – the art of Alison Baxter, Head of Short illustration HF Half day course programme. WE Weekend Fri eve to Sun pm Courses, West Dean College on 4D1596 | £354 LW long weekend (Thu/Fri eve to Sun/Mon pm) The ten short courses can be taken in any [email protected]. Suitable for all MI specialist 9 day course order but must normally be completed CLIFF WRIGHT See page 10 2D 2 day course 5D 5 day course uk or 01243 818262. 3D 3 day course 6D 6 day course within a period of two years, including the 4D 4 day course 7D 7 day course
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8 Fees listed for each course are non-residential – please see page 71 for accommodation costs | Short Courses November 2010–May 2011 0844 4994408 | [email protected] | on-line booking at www.westdean.org.uk 9 ART ART Botanical art and illustration 10 Visual storytelling
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Painting 12–17 M Printmaking 17–19 For more information about our E Winter School please see page 9 N DRI N SA
Botanical art and Illuminating alpines – botanical Expressive figure drawing Drawing for beginners illustration painting November 12–15 December 3–5 A drawing workshop April 8–10 LW1587 | £290 | WE1623 | £186 | February 21–24 Autumn colours – painting leaves WE1836 | £189 Intermediate/Advanced Beginners 3D1737 | £274 | and fruit Suitable for all This workshop offers dynamic ways of Learn to draw in a weekend! This course Beginners November 12–15 Learn to paint the diminutive and jewel- celebrating the human form and aims to covers the basics, including measuring for Gain confidence as you learn to draw with LW1589 | £277 | NEW like alpine flowers found in spring and capture a person’s presence in charcoal perspective, scale, tone and composition pencil and charcoal. This course covers Intermediate early summer. You begin by developing and mixed media. Working from an artist’s as you create several pencil sketches in the drawing and composition, measuring and Learn how to observe the vibrant colours observational and drawing techniques, then model, students create many drawings with inspiring environment of West Dean. creating perspective, proportion, scale and of the autumn palette – turning leaves, move on to watercolour exercises in mixing particular focus on the portrayal of head, JOHN FREEMAN tone. Working in the stunning grounds of foliage and berries. You develop your colour and applying colour. hands and feet. West Dean, you create several sketches mixing skills in watercolour and enhance MARIELLA BALDWIN EMILY BALL leading to developed studies. your understanding of how light and colour Life drawing JOHN FREEMAN create shape and form, so that your subjects December 17–19 take on a realistic and three dimensional Painting tulips in watercolours Pictures and prose – the art of WE1647 | £209 | quality on paper. April 29–May 2 illustration Beginners/Intermediate Portrait drawing
ANNA KNIGHTS LW1873 | £279 | NEW November 15–19 Ideal for absolute beginners and those s March 18–20 n Suitable for all 4D1596 | £354 wishing to improve their life drawing, this i WE1786 | £203 | b u
Study the anatomy and form of tulips and Suitable for all course also stimulates visual awareness. R Suitable for all
The festive winter garden – botanical learn how to reproduce their vivid colours Experience the complete process of You begin by considering the overall n Develop your drawing skills as the tutor
painting and typical shapes while you develop illustrating a text of your choice – a favourite proportions and dynamics of a pose are guides you to achieving a likeness and December 6–10 your skills in the essential watercolour poem, piece of prose or a children’s book. and are then helped to achieve accurate K improving techniques in ways tailored 4D1629 | £359 | NEW techniques which are covered in the course. This course takes you on a journey from proportions and learn to express form to your own experience. There is an Suitable for all SANDRINE MAUGY rough drawings to storyboarding, gathering through tone and colour. opportunity to experiment with different Gain confidence in painting both the muted references, character development, making BRIDGET WOODS media, styles and approaches. neutral colours and the glossy leaves and a dummy book and looking for and working JOHN FREEMAN berries of winter as you learn about papers Drawing with a publisher. Free drawing using rollers and and brushes, study colour and colour CLIFF WRIGHT Animated drawing alternative materials mixing and explore the use of light and Drawing – traditional and January 28–30 February 7–10 Comics and graphic novels – a dark for three-dimensional effect. Using experimental WE1686 | £186 | NEW | 3D1712 | £274 | drawing course foliage and plants from West Dean gardens November 5–8 Suitable for all Suitable for all March 18–20 you should complete at least one finished LW1565 | £279 | NEW | Experiment with drawing, paints and inks Draw and paint freely with printing rollers, WE1787 | £186 | NEW painting or hand painted Christmas cards. Beginners/Intermediate to create free-form images and learn to card and scrapers using mixed media, Suitable for all SANDRINE MAUGY With reference to drawings of other artists, animate them with fun and user-friendly acrylics and oils on this experimental Warm-up with liberating drawing exercises, learn to question, describe, explore and play software, before finally projecting your course. Based on studio and outdoor then explore the use of text, images and through the activity of drawing. We consider animations onto a big screen. projects, you learn techniques to free-up sound effects in comic art and develop your Creating a botanical sketchbook at perspective, space and tonal relationships FREYA POCKLINGTON your work and increase its impact. Working own ‘visual story’ leading to a fully realised West Dean through set exercises in a variety of scale. with various approaches, you create several comic page. February 13–17 FRANCES HATCH finished pieces. KAREN RUBINS 4D1723 | £357 | NEW Manipulating perspective HOWARD COLES Suitable for all – a drawing course Create a small-scale sketchbook – an January 28–30 Inventive drawing – mapping a invaluable reference source for future WE1689 | £186 | Life drawing – an intensive course personal journey paintings – as you study the distinctive Suitable for all February 18–20 March 21–24 features of a wide variety of plant material Depicting space and objects need not WE1731 | £209 | 3D1796 | £274 | NEW | and learn to make quick, accurate sketches depend solely upon vanishing point Suitable for all Suitable for all and colour notes. The course also covers perspective. Work through various other Learn how to create mass and form, Draw a map of experiences through essential topics such as composition, existing systems which allow you to capture the dynamics of poses and render a chosen landscape – a physical or colour mixing, accurate observation, plant manipulate and render space and objects dimension and proportion. Advice on all metaphorical journey. Use the language dissection and pressing. dynamically. drawing media and the developmental of drawing – line, shape, tone, texture, MARIELLA BALDWIN ANDREW SMITH possibilities of various pose lengths is given, contrast and composition to produce a enabling a confident and inventive approach personal work that could be in different to figure drawing. scales and shapes away from the rectangle! VALERIE WIFFEN MARTIN WARD n gto n If you pay in full online you will ockli receive a 5% discount for courses p in this brochure. reya reya f
10 Fees listed for each course are non-residential – please see page 71 for accommodation costs | Short Courses November 2010–May 2011 0844 4994408 | [email protected] | on-line booking at www.westdean.org.uk 11 ART ART
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Creative ink drawing The nature of seeing – a drawing Painting Painting free-form with the Chinese Strength and adventure in water- March 29–April 1 course brush – animals based media 3D1815 | £279 | NEW | May 13–16 Colour harmony – oil painting December 10–13 January 7–14 Suitable for all LW1907 | £274 | October 31–November 5 LW1640 | £274 7D1659 | £588 Develop an understanding of the Beginners/Intermediate 5D1557 | £435 | NEW | Suitable for all Suitable for all techniques for using ink with a variety Explore the creative process as you draw Intermediate/Advanced CARTWRIGHT Master the basic skills of freehand Chinese Explore the creative dimensions of
of tools through a series of exercises natural forms and the landscape, working Develop your understanding of colour N– painting as you learn about the cultural transparent and opaque water-based paint designed to build confidence. You explore through exercises in a range of media. and an ability to use it effectively in your background to this art. You learn to select – including watercolours, gouaches, acrylic mark making, washes with watercolours You are encouraged to unearth your own painting as you study colour ideas and GILVA appropriate materials and practise painting paints and dyes – on this stimulating and
and combining other media to produce creative potential using your full range of paint, both theoretically and experientially. her animals using the Chinese brush. Guidance productive course. You work on projects successful and creative drawings. senses. Discussions of colour theory are followed p will also be provided on mounting your with figurative and abstract subject matter FELICITY HOUSE CLIFF WRIGHT by exercises and this knowledge is then work. and are encouraged to be adventurous and
applied to a painting, initially with a limited hristo KAILI FU take risks with your ideas – spontaneous C palette. More complex colour harmony and as well as more considered responses are An introduction to observational Walking, talking and drawing – a oil-painting technique are covered with the welcome. A clothed model is available drawing creative experience landscape and still-life as subjects. Exploring pastels for two sessions and there are informal, April 8–10 May 20–22 CHRISTOPHER BAKER Fantastical painting – working with December 13–16 optional evening sessions. You should WE1837 | £186 | WE1912 | £194 | NEW | dynamics of the imagination 3D1644 | £274 | NEW create a substantial body of work which Beginners Suitable for all November 28–December 2 Suitable for all is displayed and reviewed as part of the This step-by-step course guides you Find – or rekindle – your relationship with Sumi-e – mastering Japanese ink 4D1616 | £354 | NEW Gain confidence and skills in working course. through the key techniques used to create drawing and mark making as you explore a painting Intermediate/Advanced with the full range of dry pastels, and MARGARET MERRITT accurate drawings from observation. variety of simple techniques for recording November 5–7 Explore your imagined worlds, create competence in colour-mixing techniques. Working with pencils on paper, you what you see and feel in nature in your own WE1561 | £199 | NEW painted realities, and work with themes Looking at mark making, tonal washes and investigate composition, measurement, hand-made sketchbooks. Suitable for all dealing with fantastical narratives, compositions and working on a variety of The painting techniques of the tone and line. SARAH PALMER AND DENISE FRANKLIN Begin to master all the Japanese brush- Surrealist dreams and the dynamics of surfaces, you produce several pastel studies Masters ANDREW FITCHETT painting techniques you need to create the imagination in a playful and practical and a small painting. January 9–13 striking paintings of subjects from the approach to painting. We also take a look FELICITY HOUSE 4D1660 | £364 | NEW Life drawing – line, tone and form natural world and discover the spiritual at contemporary artists who are working Intermediate/Advanced Sketching the city – develop skills in May 31–June 3 aspects of this ancient and unique art form. with these themes and cover oil and acrylic Explore the painting methods and drawing figures and architecture 3D1939 | £308 | NEW | TAKUMASA ONO painting techniques. Layer upon layer – still-life painting techniques of masters from key periods May 6–8 Suitable for all CHRISTOPHER GILVAN-CARTWRIGHT using acrylics in the history of Western art and gain WE1891 | £186 | Gain confidence in drawing the human December 17–20 new perspectives on your own practice. Suitable for all figure. You explore a variety of drawing Crossing the bridge to abstract LW1650 | £274 | Following tutor demonstrations and Spend a day on location in Chichester techniques through exercises using line and painting Exploring composition in painting Suitable for all supporting lectures, you make small making reference drawings, then in the tone to define shade, positive and negative November 21–25 and drawing Explore paint surfaces and the extraordinary studies from master paintings then use studio develop all your material to complete shapes, depth, weight and form. 4D1604 | £354 | NEW | December 5–8 versatility of acrylics used directly from these techniques and methods in your images that capture the city’s atmosphere ADELE WAGSTAFF Intermediate/Advanced 3D1628 | £274 | NEW | the tube. On this course you work through own paintings. Working exclusively in oils, using watercolours, line and wash or pen Learn to cross the bridge between, on one Suitable for all a series of directed exercises and make subjects include still-life, landscape and the and ink. side observation of nature or art, and on Experiment with compositional options paintings built up in layers on a tinted life model. PAUL COX the other side the dynamics of abstract and develop an understanding of how the ground, then allow your own individual JOHN FREEMAN painting. We will focus on different ways of placing, perspective and scale of objects work to grow out of whatever theme these looking, following the ideas and practices affect the final outcome. With the West initial projects suggest to you. Individual of masters of 20th century painting from Dean environment and still-lifes as the support is offered at every stage – bring Portraits in watercolours Bomberg to de Kooning. subject, you work with the media of your objects to inspire. January 14–17 JOHN MEAKER choice to create thumb-nail sketches and FRANCES HATCH LW1669 | £301 drawn and painted studies. Suitable for all ANDREW FITCHETT This course investigates the transparency Oil painting for beginners and relative speed of handling watercolours November 26–28 for painting a portrait. Using a model, you WE1611 | £194 Watercolour painting for beginners To help you choose the right course, start by modelling the head broadly in tone, Beginners December 10–12 please use the categories below: then identify skin colours and paint finer Learn the basics of oil painting. While WE1634 | £186 details. Beginners anyone new to the subject or making paintings from direct observation, Beginners BRIDGET WOODS those who have not practised for a while you learn how to structure works and Enjoy a thorough, structured programme Intermediate those with some experience in develop light effects, mix colours, build of work covering observational drawing, the subject, eg been on a beginners’ course layers, create tone, develop impasto and dry and wet painting techniques, brush Advanced established practitioners in the finish with glazing. handling and basic colour mixing as you subject – amateur and professional TOM BENJAMIN begin to master watercolour painting skills. Suitable for all courses that are delivered to CHRISTINE FORBES suit any level of experience
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Dynamic still-life An acrylics workshop Painting a Surrealist dream in egg Developing your own work – for Mixed media images – painting, Towards abstraction – painting January 14–17 January 28–30 tempera advanced painters printmaking and collage still-lifes LW1671 | £284 WE1687 | £186 | February 6–11 February 21–27 March 4–6 March 14–18 Suitable for all Beginners 5D1709 | £467 | NEW 6D1740 | £506 WE1758 | £207 | 4D1782 | £359 Explore the expressive potential of Build up a ‘library’ of acrylic colours and Intermediate/Advanced Advanced Beginners/Intermediate Intermediate/Advanced materials and the fundamentals of picture painting techniques such as glazes, impasto Try your hand at this ancient painting All artists need the occasional opportunity Study the colours, patterns and textures Many artists reach a stage in their structure using mixed media (no oils). and expressive mark making and learn to technique whilst being inspired by the to develop their ideas in an environment around you as a starting point for your work development when mere representation is Subjects covered include colour – the handle acrylics effectively as you complete imagery of Surrealist painters, particularly that is stimulating and structured without and learn techniques for applying paints, not sufficient for personal expression. Learn alternatives; creativity and the image as at least one piece of work. Leonora Carrington. You make size being prescriptive. This masterclass offers dyes and inks as you develop your ideas into to respond directly to the subject of still-life idea; the human form as an element in CHRISTINE FORBES and gesso, then grinding pigments are individual tutorials, discussions, talks and samples or a finished piece. using mixed media to explore line, form, still-life. demonstrated before you prepare panels the experience of working together. You give JO DIXON colour and texture. Through a series of MARGARET MERRITT and mix egg tempera. You then practise a short presentation on your work, attend a exercises you get to ‘know’ the objects and Exploring colour with gouache how to build up a painting before producing formal lecture on painting by the tutor and develop confidence in stripping away the January 30–February 3 individual work. take part in the final working exhibition. Painting with colour – the winter sea superfluous and capturing the essence. Painting miniature portraits – people 4D1692 | £354 | NEW MAZ JACKSON You may bring work in progress or ideas to as inspiration JANE ARKWRIGHT and pets Suitable for all develop, or use the West Dean environment March 7–11 January 17–20 Experiment with and enjoy the medium as subject matter. Please note you are 4D1768 | £354 3D1672 | £274 of gouache whilst painting still-life and Portrait painting in oils required to supply details of your previous Suitable for all Exploring pastels Suitable for all views from the studio. You study local and February 11–13 experience as part of a selection process. Discover the language of colour and the March 25–27 Become familiar with the watercolour observed colour and how light changes our WE1713 | £203 | CHRISTOPHER BAKER power of paint on this course. Using WE1803 | £186 | NEW techniques used for painting a miniature on perception to make vibrant works while Intermediate/Advanced acrylics, you work by the sea sketching what Suitable for all ivorine or smooth paper, including laying discovering the ease with which gouache Achieve a greater understanding of you see and also the sensations you feel. Please see 3D1644 on page 13 for further down colours with stippling and hatching to can be controlled. Having worked through composition, proportion, tone and colour Exciting surfaces and textures for In the studio you create paintings from information. paint hair, fur, skin and other textures. You a series of exercises you then move on to mixing as you work from two models to painters memory, inspired also by music and texts FELICITY HOUSE learn how to choose subjects and to reduce picture making. paint two small-scale portraits. Experience February 25–28 with sea themes. to miniature size. You are also shown how WENDY JACOB of drawing from the figure is a requirement. LW1746 | £284 | CHRISTOPHER CORR to paint a traditional silhouette. ADELE WAGSTAFF Suitable for all To help you choose the right course, AZA ADLAM Surface and texture can give a painting an please use the categories below: Fresh starting points – expressive intense physical presence. On this course Simplicity in still-life painting Beginners anyone new to the subject or approaches in response to the Old Doorways and windows in oil or you explore ways of creating exciting March 11–14 those who have not practised for a while Wet-into-wet – wild and free Masters mixed media grounds on which to paint and experiment LW1776 | £277 Intermediate those with some experience in watercolours January 30–February 4 February 17–20 with inventive ways of applying acrylics. A Intermediate/Advanced the subject, eg been on a beginners’ course January 17–21 5D1694 | £435 | NEW LW1729 | £276 | NEW | range of samples is produced which serve Take the time to study still-life and develop Advanced established practitioners in the 4D1674 | £354 | NEW Intermediate/Advanced Intermediate/Advanced for a handy reference in future. a greater understanding of composition subject – amateur and professional Beginners/Intermediate Explore ways of rejuvenating your Work in and around the grand interiors JANE ARKWRIGHT using just two or three objects. For those Suitable for all courses that are delivered to Develop skilful techniques for exploiting own subject matter by responding and of West Dean to create small pencilled with some painting or drawing experience, suit any level of experience the luscious richness of wet watercolours. borrowing from Old Master paintings as diagrams and sketches which are then used this oil-painting course takes an in-depth Enjoy the freedom of working with wet- great artists in the past have – eg. Picasso, as studies for larger works. You work from Dynamic life painting in look at colour, tonal relationships and into-wet and explore improvisation, moody Hockney and Auerbach. You use an image observation using oils or water-based media watercolours proportion. landscapes, wild waves, the changes of by another artist as a starting point to looking at light in relationship to colour, February 28–March 3 ADELE WAGSTAFF the seasons as well as flowers and still-life. create a contemporary painting of your and balancing architectural structure 3D1748 | £305 Supported by step-by-step demonstrations own, looking at compositions, relationships against gesture. Intermediate/Advanced and regular appraisals, become a more free- between characters, the rich and complex JASON BOWYER For artists with a basic knowledge of spirited you! surfaces and the dramatic theatre of images. drawing and watercolours, this course WENDY JELBERT A great course if you feel stuck or bored encourages individuality through the use with familiar subject matter! of various techniques. You learn to work in EMILY BALL transparent watercolours, to develop the Illustration with watercolours speed required for painting dynamic poses January 23–27 and to express the qualities of light. 4D1678 | £354 | NEW Still-life in oils using coloured BRIDGET WOODS Intermediate/Advanced grounds Create themed illustrations for a favourite February 4–7 poem, song, or piece of prose using pen and LW1705 | £290 | watercolours and complete at least one final Suitable for all artwork. You choose your text beforehand, Explore approaches to structuring an oil bringing rough ideas and sketches with painting using different coloured primes you. Then explore pen and watercolour or grounds and focus on the building up of techniques and materials, and see how tone and colour relationships. Studies lead artwork can expand your words as your to a more finished work. owyer b illustrations develop. TOM BENJAMIN CLIFF WRIGHT n aso j
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Gilding and painting an illuminated Table top journeys – painting still-life Developing self-expression in Chinese painting – exotic flowers Portrait painting – all media A responsive approach to miniature April 3–8 painting watercolour landscapes and birds May 13–16 watercolours March 27–30 5D1833 | £438 April 24–29 May 8–12 LW1906 | £301 | NEW May 27–30 3D1810 | £300 Suitable for all 5D1869 | £435 4D1894 | £357 | NEW Suitable for all LW1933 | £274 | Suitable for all Gain confidence with new ways of working Intermediate/Advanced Suitable for all Study the fundamentals of portrait painting Intermediate/Advanced Please see page 24 for further information. with paint – oils, acrylics and mixed media Watercolour is an ideal medium for Develop sketches of exotic tropical – drawing, an understanding of proportion, Loosen up with watercolours using SALLY-MAE JOSEPH – and explore new approaches to creating capturing the mood and feel of a landscape. flowers and birds into finished paintings appreciation of tonal values and the use of simple still-lifes and West Dean Gardens images of still-lifes and interiors on this As an experienced artist, you extend your on paper and silk. Working from life and colour – to achieve a good likeness. You can as inspiration and learn to handle the exciting course. Learn how to add various own watercolour painting ‘language’ while photographs, you use traditional Chinese choose your own medium including pastels paintbrush freely through exploratory Rhythms, relationships and risks in media to paint to achieve specific effects working on personal projects reflecting painting techniques and materials to create or watercolours. A layering technique will sketches and exercises looking at colour painting such as increasing or reducing shine and to your individual response to this subject. compositions in freestyle and the more be demonstrated for those working in oils. and tone. March 27–April 1 use the media expressively as you respond You make in-depth studies – of brush stroke detailed ‘meticulous’ style. MARGARET FOREMAN FELICITY HOUSE 5D1813 | £435 to the light, space and form of the subjects. techniques, colour, mood and personal MAGGIE CROSS Intermediate/Advanced EMILY BALL expression, and composition and rhythm Learning to develop your intuitive sense – to enable you to select your preferred Painting freely in the landscape Printmaking of composition and design for painting methods and comfortably express your Creative acrylics – new adventures using mixed media is in itself a creative process and is the The vision of colour responses in a unique way. May 8–12 May 22–26 The art of the miniature linocut focus of this course. First the paintings of April 15–17 BRIDGET WOODS 4D1896 | £354 | NEW 4D1921 | £354 | NEW November 11–14 established artists are studied and then, WE1850 | £186 | Beginners/Intermediate Intermediate/Advanced LW1582 | £289 | through an imaginative series of practical Suitable for all Explore the amazing versatility of acrylics Find inspiration from the West Dean Suitable for all studies, shape, colour, tone, texture, Colour is at the heart of painting; it is used Exploring colour in the Fauvist which offer the painter watery washes landscape and explore ways of combining Enter the exciting world of the 8 cms square rhythm and space are explored as you to create light, space, mood and movement, manner as well as thick, luscious ‘oil style’ brush drawing and water-based paints to capture printed image! You learn about designing learn to establish your own framework. yet it is rarely fully understood. Through a May 2–6 and palette work, either separately or the qualities we experience at this delightful your print using wide-ranging source Experimenting is encouraged and the aim is structured series of practical projects, your 4D1887 | £366 in combination. You try out a wealth of time of year. You are encouraged to develop materials, as well as acquiring skills with to help you to get ideas flowing and to find confidence builds in handling colour and Intermediate/Advanced additives to create fabulous textures and and risk new ways of working with gentle cutting tools and printing processes. The your own personal voice. understanding its role. Paint colourful, vibrant and energetic works new effects and are supported by step-by- encouragement and can expect to extend course encourages you to develop richly MAXINE RELTON MARK CAZALET in the Fauvist style. You are introduced step demonstrations and regular appraisals existing skills through completing a number coloured, condensed works of printed art. to the ideas of artists such as Derain, at every stage. Be adventurous! of pieces that are landscape inspired. DALE DEVEREUX BARKER Dufy, Matisse and Vlaminck and learn to WENDY JELBERT FRANCES HATCH The Sussex village – from sketch to Watercolours for complete beginners experiment with colour with spontaneity mixed-media painting Apr 22–24 and freedom. Subject matters include still- An introduction to etching April 1–3 WE1864 | £194 | life, the nude and landscapes. Exploring colour December 16–20 WE1822 | £186 | NEW Beginners JENNY TYSON May 22–27 4D1645 | £378 Intermediate Watercolours are ideal for quick colour 5D1922 | £440 | Beginners Combine watercolours, acrylics, pastels and sketching. Designed for complete beginners Suitable for all Explore traditional methods of etching inks to produce a variety of painted effects and using the West Dean landscape as your The spring landscape – painting If you are a painter or practitioner in other and experience a variety of techniques – and surfaces and use these skills to develop subject, learn brushstroke techniques, how outdoors in oils media and wish to develop your colour including aquatint and soft ground – as paintings of landscapes or buildings based to lay washes, identify and mix any colour May 2–6 awareness and mixing skills, this course you work on projects such as a portrait, on your own source material. with confidence. 4D1888 | £354 is for you. Through creative play and a landscape or an architectural subject. The CHRIS FORSEY BRIDGET WOODS Suitable for all series of technical projects, you explore the art-historical context of this subtle and Develop techniques specific to the application of colour and its significance – expressive printmaking medium is covered demands of outdoor landscape painting in historical, symbolic, emotional and cultural. in the tutor’s lectures and demonstrations. Portrait painting and drawing – all Oil painting for beginners and oils and create work which expresses your MAXINE RELTON JOHN FREEMAN media improvers own response to the subject. This course April 3–8 April 22–25 includes focused exercises and practical 5D1832 | £471 LW1867 | £274 support. Come prepared for all weathers! Watercolour painting for beginners Woodcut prints – exploring the Suitable for all Beginners/Intermediate TOM BENJAMIN May 27–30 process Develop a personal response to portrait In this comprehensive course you are LW1932 | £274 December 17–19 painting and learn skills in the painting or encouraged to use the expressive qualities Beginners WE1646 | £199 | drawing media of your choice. You explore of oil paint and to create a varied picture Please see WE1634 on page 13 for further Suitable for all various methods for creating a likeness, surface, or impasto, to explore the three- information. Experiment with this ancient art form choosing a conventional or adventurous dimensional qualities of the medium. CHRISTINE FORBES as you learn first principles or use your approach. Practical and technical advice is You learn how to mix colours effectively, existing skills to explore the full potential given in all media, to enable you to develop manage the tonal scheme and consider the of the technique, drawing on the nature a basis of sound practice, whatever your design possibilities of a range of projects. of wood itself to create prints. Use a variety level of experience. A model is provided VALERIE WIFFEN of woods and papers, experiment with throughout and you may produce sustained Visual storytelling cutting techniques and print with presses WOODS pieces of work or make drawings and or by hand. paintings to varied time spans. For more information about our MERLYN CHESTERMAN VALERIE WIFFEN Winter School please see page 9 RIDGET B
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Making screenprints – an Exploring colour in lino print Printed landscapes in lino and Wood engraving – explore and AZA ADLAM is a miniature painter and ceramic CHRISTOPHER CORR studied at the Royal introduction February 21–25 monotype develop restorer. She exhibits with the Royal Society of College of Art and works as an illustrator and January 14–16 4D1738 | £369 April 17–21 May 23–27 Miniature Painters and in 2006 won the Hilliard also exhibits his own work inspired by his travels. WE1663 | £218 | Suitable for all 4D1859 | £364 4D1925 | £354 Society award for portraiture. Commissions include book jackets, cards, stamps Beginners Explore the world of printed colour. The Suitable for all Suitable for all and posters. Create simple stencils using cut paper tutor demonstrates linocutting techniques Draw inspiration from the rich English Interpret your ideas through this relief print JANE ARKWRIGHT trained in textiles at or vinyl before progressing to more and ways of applying and printing an array tradition of landscape prints as you medium using figurative, abstract, poetic, Loughborough before becoming a full-time artist. PAUL COX studied illustration at Camberwell sophisticated techniques capable of of coloured inks, including the use of learn the techniques of two contrasting photographic, images of your own. Explore She recently completed a commission for a producing painterly marks. You use opaque presses. You are encouraged to develop a printmaking methods. Using West Dean the different tools that give silvery tones College of Art and the Royal College of Art. His Mayfair law firm, and has shown at Hove Museum. and transparent water-based inks to personal approach and to build up a body Gardens as source material you should and graphic contrasts on lemonwood end- witty draughtsmanship has been seen on stamps, produce several experimental prints and at of work. produce at least two unique monotypes and grain wood blocks, and create prints that and illustrating books including Three Men in a least one multi-layered image of stunning DALE DEVEREUX BARKER one finished, reproducible linocut on this are delicate, exquisite and small worlds in CHRISTOPHER BAKER is an artist and author Boat and Wind in the Willows. colour and vibrancy. structured and fast-moving course. themselves. who lectures in drawing and painting. He exhibits JANE SAMPSON MARK CAZALET KATE DICKER widely in the UK and Canada, including the Royal MAGGIE CROSS grew up in Hong Kong and is Woodblock printing – exploring Academy Summer Exhibitions. an expert in Chinese painting and calligraphy. She Munakata and Matsubara has written A Beginner’s Guide to Chinese Painting March 13–18 Creative use of Photoshop for makers Printmaking as illustration Combining collage and print MARIELLA BALDWIN is a botanical illustrator and and is a member of the Society of Floral Painters. and artists 5D1780 | £456 | NEW May 9–13 May 27–30 an experienced teacher. She exhibits her work in January 14–17 Suitable for all 4D1899 | £379 | NEW LW1929 | £295 | England and the USA. She has work in the Chelsea LW1670 | £300 Be inspired by the work of two great Suitable for all Suitable for all DALE DEVEREUX BARKER studied printmaking at Physic Garden Archive. Beginners/Intermediate Japanese printmakers, Shiko Munakata, Create illustrations for the cover and inside This course offers discovery and excitement the Slade School of Fine Art. His colourful work Please see page 44 for further information. with his vivid and daring compositions, pages of a favourite book as you develop as you experiment with ways of combining is exhibited internationally and he has undertaken ALISON MILNER and Naoko Matsubara and her rich sense your skills in printmaking. You try out relief the under-used medium of collage with EMILY BALL trained at Exeter and Surrey large scale public art commissions. of colour and overlaying of multiple blocks. techniques including collagraph, lino and the printed image. Working from source Universities and is director and tutor of Emily All techniques are demonstrated by the woodcut, exploring various inking effects material including ephemera, found images, Ball at Seawhite Studio. Her book Painting and KATE DICKER was trained at Camberwell Relief printmaking – an introduction tutors and you are then encouraged to work using oil-based inks. Drawing on the strong photographs and stencils, you learn various Drawing People – A Fresh Approach was published College of Art and gained an MA in Printmaking January 28–30 towards a fluent and adventurous style of UK tradition of book illustration, this linocutting and printing techniques. The in 2009. at Winchester. Her specialist areas are wood WE1683 | £199 | woodblock cutting and printing. course introduces you to the illustrator’s course encourages risk taking and offers the engraving and drawing and she has been a winner Beginners MERLYN CHESTERMAN AND working methods through research, roughs potential for creating a large body of work TOM BENJAMIN trained at Norwich School of of The Curwen Studio Prize. Using linocut with oil-based inks as your ROD NELSON and experimentation in design and image in a short time. Art. He has had many portrait commissions and main printmaking method, learn the making. DALE DEVEREUX BARKER exhibits widely, including Gallery 10, London and technical practices and skills to enable you JANE STOBART JO DIXON is a textile artist who studied at Charleston Farmhouse, Lewes. to create well-executed and exciting colour Monoprinting – for painters of all Winchester School of Art. She works in mixed prints on this course. levels media, drawing inspiration from travels in India JANE STOBART April 1–3 JASON BOWYER studied at Camberwell and and Africa, and the natural world. WE1817 | £199 | the Royal Academy winning many awards. He has Suitable for all had three one-man shows at the New Grafton ANDREW FITCHETT is a freelance illustrator, Expand your knowledge of the Gallery, Barnes and is currently working in oils painter and portraitist. His work explores craftsmanship of monoprinting. Explore the with mixed media. contemporary relationships with nature, drawing simplicity and directness of the medium, on location, then in oils. and its expressive potential, as you create MARK CAZALET studied at Falmouth School of single images using inks and papers. Art. Recent commissions include lino and wood CHRISTOPHER BAKER CHRISTINE FORBES is a painter and teacher who cuts for Old Stile Press, copes for the Bishops of trained at Northbrook College, Sussex. She has Essex and a chancel ceiling mural. recently exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Wood engraving Exhibition. April 1–3 MERLYN CHESTERMAN, a woodblock WE1820 | £186 | printmaker, graduated in Fine Art from Bath MARGARET FOREMAN was elected to the Royal Suitable for all Academy of Art, Corsham. She worked in Asia for Society of British Artists in 1983. She has won Experience the art of wood engraving which 20 years before setting up a studio in Britain and several prizes for her portraits with work in The is executed on the end grain of a closely- exhibits internationally. National Portrait Gallery, St Paul’s Cathedral and grained hardwood. You practise engraving many universities. then learn how to transfer a design to a HOWARD COLES has tutored photography and block, print and correct proofs. painting at West Dean for many years. He trained SARAH VAN NIEKERK CHRIS FORSEY trained as an illustrator and MAKE A GIFT DAYS in Cardiff and Singapore and his work can be has painted for the last 20 years, particularly For more information found in collections in the UK and abroad. landscapes. His exhilaration with colour and about Make a Gift Days surface has led to winning awards at Royal throughout November Institute of Painters exhibitions. please see page 6 ark cazalet ark m
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JOHN FREEMAN, artist and etcher, studied at SANDRINE MAUGY is a member of the Society JANE STOBART is an artist-printmaker with work BASKETMAKING & WILLOW WORK Willow work for the garden Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, and Chelsea and of Floral Painters and the Society of Botanical in many museum collections. She is an Honorary April 1–3 exhibits widely. In 2006 his book Portrait Drawing Artists. She writes for Artists & Illustrators and Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Fine basketry – playing with colour WE1818 | £186 was published by Crowood Press. paints to commission. and the author of two books. and pattern Beginners/Intermediate December 3–6 Introduce structure into your garden by LW1626 | £286 | NEW learning to make a spiral plant support, KAILI FU is an Art graduate from Anhui Teachers JOHN MEAKER studied at Goldsmiths and the JENNY TYSON is an artist living and working in Suitable for all willow hurdle, large sphere, fan trellis or University, China. She has taught in China, winning Royal Academy schools. He works in different West Sussex. Influenced by her native Scottish Using a framework of coloured cane or domed plant support. The course covers many prizes, and continues to teach traditional mediums with figures, abstraction and landscape landscape and its light, colour and texture, she fine willow, with threads, wires, fine weaving techniques and preparation of skills all over England. and is an experienced teacher. trained at Central School in London. grasses and split natural materials, explore materials. weaving vertical stripes, spirals and DOMINIC PARRETTE CHRIS GILVAN-CARTWRIGHT’s work is dictated MARGARET MERRITT is a freelance painter and a SARAH VAN NIEKERK is a wood engraver of random patterns into small bowls and other by a fascination for ‘dreamworlds’ as much as for teacher with much experience. She has a special renown, producing prints and book illustrations. functional decorative items. Emphasis is the act of painting itself. He trained at Central interest in individual creativity and seeks to foster She studied at the Slade and recently illustrated on experimentation and collaboration to Sculptural animal forms in willow St Martins, in Poland and at Brighton, lectures artistic expression in others. poems by George Herbert. record patterning possibilities. April 3–6 part-time and exhibits regularly in London. MARY BUTCHER 3D1827 | £307 Beginners/Intermediate TAKUMASA ONO is a Japanese artist using ADELE WAGSTAFF studied painting at Newcastle Choose to make a full-size deer, fox, sheep ELEANOR GLOVER, an award-winning designer- traditional ink painting techniques. His book The and the Slade. She specialises in portraiture, The sustainable container – baskets or pig, using varieties of willow. Studying maker, has taught widely, focusing on making Simple Art of Sumi-e was published in 2005 and the figure and still-life. She works in oils and from willow drawings and photographs you observe artists’ books and on lettering. She had a national he was recently commissioned to produce major has recently exhibited in the National Portrait January 14–17 how structure and tension in the animal solo touring exhibition in 2006. work for the Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Gallery. LW1667 | £286 form can express meaning and animation. Suitable for all JACKIE BINNS FRANCES HATCH studied Painting and SARAH PALMER is co-founder of Palmer Hamilton MARTIN WARD studied painting at the Slade Make baskets for today’s lifestyles from Printmaking at Wimbledon School of Art. She Partnership, an independent arts consultancy School of Fine Art, then taught a variety of sustainable willow. You complete two works in response to time spent on location, using company and combines this work with her own subjects in two major London art schools for 20 or three projects of your choice – from Making luminous willow sculptures water-based media and found materials. practise which has recently developed out of joint years. He lives in France exhibiting in the UK, USA shopping and laundry baskets to storage Textile basketry techniques – looping April 10–13 ventures with other artists. DENISE FRANKLIN and Europe. boxes and letter racks – while learning and twining 3D1845 | £295 about willow harvesting, construction February 4–6 Suitable for all FELICITY HOUSE is a member of the Pastel works and draws with Sarah regularly and is co- techniques and handle making. WE1700 | £192 | NEW Please see page 51 for further information. Society and exhibits widely. Her work in both founder of Carbon – established in 1999 to make VALERIE WIFFEN is a graduate of the Royal MARY BUTCHER Suitable for all ELEANOR GLOVER watercolour and pastel has a distinctive freshness furniture from reclaimed timber. College of Art Painting School where she won the Focusing on looping and twining and spontaneity. drawing prize. She has a portrait in the collection techniques which both make a strong FREYA POCKLINGTON trained at the University of the National Portrait Gallery. Sculptural willow work – giant connection between basketry and textiles, Woven willow and bark baskets MAZ JACKSON is a winner of international and of London and Edinburgh in Fine Art and drawing insects you learn to explore a wide range of and containers national awards for her paintings. Her work is and was short listed for the Jerwood Drawing BRIDGET WOODS specialises in watercolour January 23–26 materials – cords, threads, thin wire or May 9–12 exhibited and collected in galleries and museums prize in 2008. She recently was Artist in Residence painting and she exhibits and teaches 3D1677 | £307 flex, raffia or twine – to make a series of 3D1897 | £286 worldwide. at Chichester Cathedral. internationally. She has a number of books and Beginners/Intermediate innovative samples or small baskets. Suitable for all DVDs published including Life Drawing – a Journey Construct an insect with a span of up MARY CRABB Peel richly-coloured barks from willow to six feet entirely in willow. You begin rods and incorporate this material into WENDY JACOB was elected an associate of MAXINE RELTON is a painter and printmaker to Self-Expression. by studying images of insects such as your willow containers in new and non- the Royal Watercolour Society in 2005. After a who trained at Camberwell and the Slade School dragonflies, spiders and grasshoppers, then Make a hazel rose arch traditional ways of working with willow. career in illustration, she now paints to obtain the of Art. She now runs her own gallery and was CLIFF WRIGHT trained at the University of learn each stage of the making process, February 14–16 Each technique is taught, starting with spirit of a place. recently appointed an Academician of the Royal Brighton and has illustrated children’s books over from selecting the willow to creating an 2D1724 | £202 | NEW bark-peeling and preparation, then moving West of England Academy. the past 18 years. His work is best known through expressive form. Beginners/Intermediate on to the basics of a small willow basket – WENDY JELBERT is a member of the Society of two of the Harry Potter book covers. JACKIE BINNS Please see page 31 for further information. from weaving the base to adding a handle. Women Artists, Floral Painters and St Ives Society KAREN RUBINS trained at Middlesex specialising ALAN AND JO WATERS MARY BUTCHER of Artists. She is the author of 30 art books and 9 in making comics. In 2008 she was runner-up in art DVDs. the Manga competition run by the Embassy of Japan for UK artists and in 2009 was an artist in Rush weaving – hats, mats, bags ANNA KNIGHTS is a self-taught artist who residence at the V&A. and baskets February 25–28 received an RHS Gold Medal and Best Botanical LW1743 | £ 274 Artist in Show on first exhibiting her work in JANE SAMPSON is a master printmaker with Suitable for all 2007. She has work in the RHS’s Lindley Library over 20 years experience as a fine artist and Learn to make hats, bags, baskets, collection and exhibits regularly at the Chelsea commercial printer. She jointly set up the Brighton tablemats or floor matting in English Flower Show. Independent Printmaking studio in 2000. bulrush as you explore the versatility of this material with techniques such as plaiting, knotting, stringing, pairing and stitching. BB ward
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KATHY ABBOTT is a bookbinder and freelance MARI ONO, a Japanese designer, had her book tutor. A graduate of Roehampton University, The Simple Art of Japanese Papercrafts published and formerly bindery manager at Bernard in 2006. She teaches workshops in origami Quaritch Ltd, London, she now runs her own fine throughout England where she now lives. bookbinding studio. TOM PERKINS is a designer-craftsman making CHERRELL AVERY is a graduate of Roehampton inscriptions in stone and slate. Recent commissions University. A freelance calligrapher and teacher, include plaques for the Queen’s Gallery and the she has run workshops at the Royal Academy of Crafts Study Centre in Farnham. Art and various London museums. m JOHN ROBINSON is a self-employed n ha GAYNOR GOFFE studied calligraphy at bookbinder and former part-time lecturer. He is a West Dean College offers a range of highest quality of care of historic and draw on both practical skills in making
we Reigate School of Art and combines teaching winner of the Society of Bookbinders’ competition full-time graduate and postgraduate artistic artefacts. Practical conservation paintings, drawings, prints, textiles and and exhibiting. Commissions include a frieze for for a restored or conserved binding. programmes of study in Visual Arts, requires a high level of technical skill sculptural works underpinned by the Norwich Castle Museum and a panel for the Conservation, Making and Creative allied with aesthetic sensitivity, and all philosophical considerations of the nature Marti n Crafts Council. CHRISTOPHER ROWLATT, a qualified teacher, Writing. Graduate, postgraduate, MA/ programmes teach students to make of aesthetics, as these might usefully Lettercutting in wood runs a busy conservation bindery and marbling MFA programmes are validated by the the objects that they conserve, in impinge upon the artist’s practice. March 13–17 University of Sussex, whilst West Dean order to enhance the understanding 4D1779 | £354 MARK HINER’s MA in Graphic Information at studio, from which he supplies his marbled papers, Suitable for all the Royal College of Art inspired his interest in books and albums all over the world. College offers a range of diplomas. of the original craftsmanship. The postgraduate Creative Writing Explore wood as a beautiful and practical paper engineering. His pop-ups have contributed programme is designed around twelve medium for lettercutting and design while to books on a wide range of themes and he has RACHEL WARD-SALE studied bookbinding at All student and tutors at West Dean Whilst in the Making programmes units of study, which incorporates, developing your carving skills and learning taught many workshops. the University of Brighton and has won many College have been brought together (Stringed Musical Instruments, Clocks, practical (61%), Theoretical (17%) and good craft practice. Start with basic carving prizes for her books. She works as a freelance by a shared desire to create new Metals and Furniture) students Professional (22%) study – an additional techniques using capital letters if you are a SUSAN HUFTON studied at Roehampton bookbinder and is co-founder of Bookbinders and conserve historic works. This focus on the practical craftsmanship long MA component of individual study synergy is central across all of the to learn design and making skills and creative writing runs over the summer. beginner, or bring along projects to work on University. She was part of a team of of Lewes. College’s range of programmes. in an environment where their if you have experience. calligraphers and artists making the St John’s MARTIN WENHAM ongoing care is also considered. There are grant and scholarship Bible for St John’s Abbey in Minnesota, USA. MARTIN WENHAM’s lettering work is The Conservation programmes opportunities across all programmes. distinguished by its wide range of media. He is a (Books, Ceramics, Clocks, Furniture and On the Visual Arts programmes SALLY-MAE JOSEPH trained at Reigate and former lecturer at the University of Leicester and Gilding and painting an illuminated Metalwork) train and educate conservators (Painting & Drawing, Sculpture and miniature Roehampton, is an experienced teacher and author of Understanding Art: a guide for teachers. to become professionals capable of the Tapestry and Textile Art) students March 27–30 has made a teaching DVD on gilding. Her many 3D1810 | £300 commissions include six years working on the Suitable for all St John’s Bible. Create your own medieval miniature with raised and burnished gold as you learn CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL the traditional techniques of illumination. These include preparing a board, stretching DEVELOPMENT COURSES IN vellum, making and applying gesso, laying gold leaf, then painting your design with CONSERVATION (CPD) gouache paint using special layering techniques. The Building Conservation Masterclasses knowledge of developments in materials SALLY-MAE JOSEPH (BCMs) at West Dean provide training in and techniques. Collaboration with technical and practical skills in the repair relevant organisations and specialists and maintenance of historic structures. has resulted in an outstanding range Italics – basic, flourished and These courses which were originally set up of expertise on each course. experimental by English Heritage have been designed, May 20–23 and are delivered, by leading practitioners For a brochure or further information LW1919 | £274 | NEW in the field of building conservation. on all the courses in the CPD programme, Suitable for all The unique ruinette at West Dean – on please contact Liz Campbell at Explore calligraphy through projects which students can practise conservation West Dean College, tailored to your own level of experience. and repair techniques – is a purpose- West Dean, Chichester, Beginners practise letterforms and letter built structure exhibiting many of the West Sussex PO18 0QZ spacing in pencil and with the edged-pen problems found on historic buildings. tel: 01243 818219/811301 before moving on to short texts, while fax: 01243 811343 the more experienced can choose more The Professional Conservators in email: [email protected] sophisticated and experimental italic forms Practice courses (PCIPs) are designed www.westdean.org.uk/College for their work. for professional conservators to GAYNOR GOFFE refresh their skills and update their
24 Fees listed for each course are non-residential – please see page 71 for accommodation costs | Short Courses November 2010–May 2011 0844 4994408 | [email protected] | on-line booking at www.westdean.org.uk 25 If you pay in full online you will CREATIVE Tutors receive a 5% discount for courses CREATIVE WRITING WRITING in this brochure.
CREATIVE WRITING GREG MOSSE is Co-director of the Chichester Courses related to the creative use of prose Writing Festival, programme leader for West Creating a novel – collaborative Deans MA programme in creative writing and writing weekend the leader of the creative writing Short Course November 12–14 programme at West Dean College. He authored WE1585 | £195 (incl dinners) the WDC creative writing MA programme and Intermediate/Advanced has extremely wide experience of the publishing An exciting and intensely collaborative course for people with some creative world as an author, editor, teacher and translator. writing experience. This course is limited to only 12 participants who will spend the KATE MOSSE is an internationally renowned entire weekend plotting, writing and story- THE 4th CHICHESTER WRITING best-selling author. Her novels Labyrinth, Sepulchre crafting. It will provide participants with FESTIVAL and The Winter Ghosts have been published deep and clear insights into the challenges Friday 24 – Sunday 26 September 2010 worldwide to extraordinary acclaim. She is a involved in bringing a novel to completion. WF1431 | £243 (incl dinners) popular broadcaster on BBC radio and television At the end of the weekend, all the materials Festival Directors – Greg and Kate Mosse and is co-founder and honorary director of the used will be made available, including the Orange Prize for Fiction. full text of all drafted sections, plus scans of In just a few years, the CHICHESTER s
artwork or other research images. WRITING FESTIVAL has become one of the n All of the courses led by Greg include LED BY GREG MOSSE most popular and well-respected festivals in he contributions from successful contemporary p the literary calendar. te S writers in the role of associate tutors. - p Compelling story writing, 1 – plot The 4th CWF runs from lunchtime on and character Friday to teatime on Sunday. The full Bisho
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Beginners/Intermediate book early, since these tickets sell out W Designed for beginners to more Compelling story writing, 3 – very quickly. experienced writers who want to develop a suspense, style and synopsis clear sense of plot and character and how March 18–20 International bestselling author Kate Mosse Stop motion animation Digital video editing they interrelate. This course stimulates WE1789 | £195 (incl dinners) will chair three high-profile AN AUDIENCE November 15–19 February 25–28 and unblocks participants’ creativity with a Beginners/Intermediate WITH events which this year includes the 4D1593 | £366 | NEW LW1942 | £274 variety of tutor-led classes, individual study Designed for beginner to intermediate best-selling Brighton-based thriller writer Suitable for all Beginners/Intermediate and collaborative writing. Participants will participants, this course focuses on Peter James and the eminent biographer, Please see page 41 for further information. Please see page 46 for further information. make objective, writerly judgments around three technical aspects of novel writing – crime novelist and now diarist, Lady WILL BISHOP-STEPHENS ANITA MAKRIS planning and developing plot and character, suspense, style and synopsis. It requires you Antonia Fraser. exploiting the ‘sequence of imaginary to think in terms of the overall structure of events’ for maximum dramatic impact. a novel, not just of individual sentences and Over the course of the weekend Greg Pictures and prose – the art of Printmaking as illustration LED BY GREG MOSSE paragraphs, helping participants to make Mosse, West Dean’s creative writing illustration May 9–13 editorial decisions touching on the overall programme leader, will interview a team November 15–19 4D1899 | £379 | NEW shape of their work, rather than close of brilliant and engaging authors, editors, 4D1596 | £354 Suitable for all Compelling story writing, 2 – analysis. You will write and share work agents and booksellers in a sequence of Suitable for all Please see page 18 for further information. location, dialogue and revision during the course. fascinating and insightful panel discussions. Please see page 10 for further information. JANE STOBART February 11–13 LED BY GREG MOSSE They include journalist and author Fergal CLIFF WRIGHT WE1715 | £195 (incl dinners) Keane, New York Times best-seller Danielle Beginners/Intermediate Trussoni, historians Jonathan Phillips and Digital video editing This enjoyable and varied weekend course Creating a novel – collaborative Bettany Hughes, ex-Buddhist-turned-author Illustration with watercolours May 16–19 is designed for beginner to intermediate writing weekend Nikolai Grozni, Hodder & Stoughton editor January 23–27 3D1943 | £274 participants, studying location, dialogue May 13–15 Anne McNeil, crime writer and TV producer 4D1678 | £354 | NEW Beginners/Intermediate and revision. You are invited to submit WE1905 | £195 (incl dinners) Peter Grimsdale, literary agents Araminta Intermediate/Advanced Please see page 46 for further information. photographs of dramatic locations or Intermediate/Advanced Whitley and Hannah Westland, publisher Please see page 14 for further information. ANITA MAKRIS favourite places prior to the course in Please see WE1585 above for further Candida Lacey of Myriad Editions, Icelandic CLIFF WRIGHT preparation for the first session. Work on information. novelist and campaigner Jonina Leosdottir, dialogue is led by a set of graded examples LED BY GREG MOSSE poets Laura Dockrill and Philip Wells, plus from a range of successful published many more to be announced. Animated drawing sources, leading to independent writing January 28–30 work from participants. This leads into Please check our website for updates on WE1686 | £186 | NEW work on revision, including collaborative other participants. Suitable for all
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26 Fees listed for each course are non-residential – please see page 71 for accommodation costs | Short Courses November 2010–May 2011 0844 4994408 | [email protected] | on-line booking at www.westdean.org.uk 27 If you pay in full online you will FOOD receive a 5% discount for courses Tutors Food days – a mix of talks, demos and feasting 28 FOOD in this brochure. Food courses 28–29 lesley woods lesley
Food days – a mix of talks, Food courses Edible gifts for Christmas Chocolate – the ultimate romance GLYNN CHRISTIAN founded the eponymous demos and feasting December 11 February 12 ‘Mr Christian’ deli in London and has long Stir up Sunday 1F1642 | £112 | NEW HF1720 (am) | HF1721 (pm) been a passionate trailblazer for all manner of The gourmet’s garden November 20 Beginners £46 (per session) | NEW ingredients we now take for granted. He has February 26 1F1599 | £106 | NEW Use your time and talents this Christmas to Beginners lots of TV experience and writes, including Real FL1747 | £64 | NEW Beginners make beautifully packaged homemade food Can seduction without morals be right? Flavours and How to Cook Without Recipes. Suitable for all Plan ahead this Christmas, learning how to create a hamper! You make chocolate In this half day course for Valentine’s Day In a fresh look at growing your own to get the best from traditional dishes in truffles, petit fours, mulled wine bags and we develop a taste for the very best in gourmet vegetables Joy Larkcom highlights an imaginative and time effective manner: more, and learn how to present food to chocolate, exploring the nuances of flavour SARAH JANE EVANS is a Founder Member the where, how and what of gardening, mixing, maturing, preparing and freezing. perfection. from the origin of the cocoa bean. Basic of The Academy of Chocolate, an accomplished and making your own vegetable garden Lunch is a chance to taste festive party food LESLEY WOODS techniques for creating stunning chocolate food writer and a Master of Wine. She is ‘beautiful’. There will be an emphasis on her demonstrated by the tutor. decorations and presentations are also interested in the similarities between the favourites – salad plants and oriental greens ROSEMARY MOON covered and you leave with decorations production of fine chocolate and fine wine, – and their key role in having produce in the Marmalade masterclass to add the finishing touches to a romantic and in the language used to communicate taste, kitchen all year round which adds beauty as January 21 supper. flavour and texture accurately. well as taste to your life. The day includes Winter warmers 1F1675 | £106 | NEW SARAH JANE EVANS a delicious seasonal lunch, a short cookery November 27 Beginners From fields to forks – farming today BRUCE GINSBERG, a specialist tea importer and demonstration from Rosemary Moon, and for our food tomorrow 1F1615 | £106 | NEW Well preserved, or a bit too runny? The day blender, owns and runs Dragonfly Tea with his a Gourmet Gardening Any Questions with May 19 Beginners features sugar tastings, how to add ‘extras’ An afternoon of tea wife Kaz, a business founded by his grandfather. Sarah Wain joining the panel. FL1941 | £64 | NEW Experience high fibre cooking to delight the to your preserves and the perfect set. We’ll May 26 JOY LARKCOM Suitable for all palette that is good for you too! Forget the make marmalade in groups (and share HF1926 | £42 | NEW He is also an independent scholar of East Asian Do you want to know more about how worthiness of beans and lentils; this is about the spoils) and other dishes to make with Beginners culture specialising in all things Chinese and and where your food comes from? This truly enjoying pulses, mixed with seasonal Sevilles are demonstrated as well as great A chance to learn about and taste some Japanese of the C17th and C18th. day provides a ‘behind the scenes’ view vegetables and other local foods. dishes to make with marmalade. of the world’s rarest teas and to hear of celebrating the production of food in ROSEMARY MOON ROSEMARY MOON the skills required in its production. Tea GRAHAM HARVEY is Agricultural Story Editor Britain today, including some of the key merchant Bruce Ginsberg travels thousands for The Archers, with extensive and broad ranging environmental and demand issues that of miles each year to buy first hand from his knowledge of farming issues. He is also author farmers face and how they are addressing Beers for gastronomes and guzzlers growers and he shares his enjoyment of this of numerous books and an acclaimed speaker on them. Includes short lively lectures, lunch To help you choose the right course, February 4 fascinating subject. Finish off the afternoon please use the categories below: farming issues. from locally sourced food, debate and tours 1F1695 | £106 | NEW with a selection of teatime dainties. to see farming ‘in action’ around the West Beginners anyone new to the subject or Beginners BRUCE GINSBERG Dean Estate and other nearby farms and those who have not practised for a while Lager, ale and beer – what’s what? The JOY LARKCOM has been described as ‘an nurseries. Intermediate those with some experience in man who got beer onto the wine list at La original hunter-gatherer’ having travelled widely ANCHORED BY GRAHAM HARVEY, the subject, eg been on a beginners’ course Gavroche and Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons to discover what people eat in far-distant AGRICULTURAL STORY EDITOR FOR Advanced established practitioners in the now puts beer on the map at West Dean. We countries – and whether we can grow it here. THE ARCHERS subject – amateur and professional explore beer and food matchings, serving Her name is synonymous with oriental vegetables Suitable for all courses that are delivered to beers throughout a meal and there is a visit and salad crops. This is an all-too-rare occasion suit any level of experience to a local craft brewery. to meet and learn from Joy’s 40 years of growing RUPERT PONSONBY experience.
Flavour trails – a masterclass in taste ROSEMARY MOON has demonstrated, taught and flavour and written about food for over 30 years. A April 2 trained home economist, she is a champion of FL1826 | £64 | NEW local food and eco-gastronomy, a much published Suitable for all author and is a regular demonstrator at West How do chefs and cooks come up with Dean events. new recipes? Glynn Christian offers us the ultimate workshop on tastes and flavours RUPERT PONSONBY writes regularly on which will liberate you from cookbooks and beer in magazines and has many TV and radio teach you how to cook without recipes. You appearances to his credit. He has consulted the learn how to create your own scrumptious beers lists for many Michelin-star restaurants dishes every time, based on what including Michel Roux’s Le Gavroche** and ingredients you have to hand, and discover the joys of using seasonal or local produce. Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons**. An empowering course for anyone wanting to be a creative cook, rather than simply LESLEY WOODS has a BA in Hospitality from following someone else’s ideas. the Scottish Hotel School. She has worked in the GLYNN CHRISTIAN industry and education for over 30 years and also runs her own catering business.
28 Fees listed for each course are non-residential – please see page 71 for accommodation costs | Short Courses November 2010–May 2011 0844 4994408 | [email protected] | on-line booking at www.westdean.org.uk 29 GARDENING GARDENING AND GARDEN AND GARDEN DESIGN DESIGN GARDEN LECTURES 30 GARDEN COURSES 30–32
Make hedges work – planning, Pruning the garden in winter and Metal bugs – making outdoor Planting chalk, clay and coastal planting and maintenance spring sculptures gardens November 24 February 5 March 11–13 March 17 1D1606 | £93 | NEW 1D1706 | £106 | NEW WE1774 | £218 1D1783 | £93 | NEW Beginners Beginners/Intermediate Suitable for all Beginners/Intermediate Are you thinking of planting a new hedge or One of the more important tasks in the Please see page 35 for further information. The three “Cs” of challenging garden sites! trying to tame an existing one? Learn how garden is pruning – it can be nerve-racking MIKE SAVAGE If you have this type of garden, find out to select the right species, where to source and many gardeners fear that they might how to improve the conditions for growing your plants, how many you will need and be doing more harm than good. This successfully and how to make the right how to space and plant them effectively. course allows you to practise and perfect The organic kitchen garden choices when selecting new plants, so they Once planted discover the best methods for your pruning skills and learn how to prune March 11–13 not only survive but also thrive. Discover training, pruning and annual maintenance various trees and shrubs in the winter WE1775 | £186 wonderful plant combinations to give you a to ensure success. garden. Beginners/Intermediate colourful and interesting display all year. ROSIE YEOMANS OWEN SPAREY AND Inspired by the tutor’s organic garden JULIET SARGEANT STEPHANIE HURMAN in Hampshire, learn ways of growing vegetables and fruit in your own garden or Festive flowers allotment. This year-round guide covers Bridal flowers – create a posy, December 3 | 1D1620 A garden for all seasons choosing and sowing seeds, compost buttonhole, corsage and headdress December 4 | 1D1627 February 7 making, pest and disease control and March 19 £122 1D1711 | £93 use of polytunnels and the greenhouse. 1D1791 | £114 Beginners/Intermediate Suitable for all WENDY ELLICOCK Beginners/Intermediate GARDEN LECTURES GARDEN COURSES With Christmas just around the corner Plan your garden for year-round use. You Make your wedding day even more special why not create your own festive floral are introduced to the principles of planting by designing and creating your own Rain gardens – managing water Growing apples, pears, plums and arrangements for your home? Combining design, including structural and seasonal wedding flowers. Learn what to consider sustainably in the landscape cherries fabulous winter foliage with other seasonal planting, and how to choose and combine when purchasing flowers including how to February 5 November 6 materials you design and make a fabulous plants to create a good effect throughout handle, condition and store them. During GL1707 | £59 | NEW 1D1566 | £93 door wreath and a stunning garland that the year. You also look at the use of hard the day you have the opportunity to make Suitable for all Beginners/Intermediate will add a really personal touch to your landscaping. and take home a buttonhole, corsage, Rain Gardens are a hot topic in the USA This course is designed to guide you Christmas decorations. JULIET SARGEANT headdress and hand-tied posy. but yet to make a real impact here. They through the problems and solutions that SUE HINGSTON SUE HINGSTON offer the opportunity for gardeners and make growing your own fruit so rewarding. designers to respond to the challenges of All aspects of growing are included from Make a hazel rose arch climate change. This movement aims to selecting rootstocks and varieties, to Training trees and shrubs February 14–16 Trees – their care and management integrate buildings with the landscape or general care and management, including January 22 2D1724 | £202 | NEW March 19 garden, whilst capturing, storing, cleaning pests, diseases and pruning. 1D1676 | £93 | NEW Beginners/Intermediate 1D1792 | £93 and returning to the soil as much rainfall as JOHN NASH Beginners/Intermediate Create a wonderful hazel rose arch for Suitable for all possible. Explore how rain gardens may be Explore how training methods are used your garden using green hazel coppiced West Dean Gardens and St Roche’s applicable to your own garden. to control growth, to produce ornamental on the West Dean Estate. You will learn Arboretum hold an extensive collection of NIGEL DUNNETT Garden organic shapes and encourage flowering and how to cleave, weave, and twist wood using trees from newly planted to centuries old – November 6 fruiting in woody-stemmed plants. During traditional hand tools such as billhooks it is their management that form the core of 1D1567 | £93 the day the course will focus on fruit trees and side adzes. No previous experience is this course. With a combination of indoor Crûg Farm Plants – extraordinary Beginners/Intermediate and shrubs using the wonderful examples needed. and garden-based theory you learn about tales of modern day plant hunting There has never been a better time to in the gardens of West Dean. ALAN AND JO WATERS selection, use, management and cultivation, April 16 learn all about growing your own produce PAUL TEMPLETON giving you the confidence to manage your GL1856 | £59 | NEW organically. Discover how composting own trees. Suitable for all techniques can enrich your soil and enable Designing your own garden JIM BUCKLAND Bleddyn and his wife Sue travel to remote you to grow healthier crops. Create a March 4–7 parts of the world to collect rare and monthly programme for your garden that LW1761 | £274 unusual plants for their nursery; their will include early and year-round cropping Suitable for all collections are much sought after around to make the most of your kitchen garden. This course is for those who have a new the world. Bleddyn will talk about their WENDY ELLICOCK garden with nothing in it, or an established expeditions to Taiwan and Vietnam and garden in which they would like to Key to course codes explain how they have scaled mountains make changes. 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An introduction to making glass Decorative glass pattern bar fusing Mosaics for beginners and improvers CANDACE BAHOUTH is an experienced Blacksmithing and beads May 30–June 3 November 12–14 designer of mosaics and textiles, with work in metalworking April 17–20 4D1938 | £448 | NEW WE1584 | £186 | various museum collections including the V&A. 3D1857 | £353 Intermediate/Advanced Beginners/Intermediate Recent work includes 3D shoes. Basic blacksmithing Beginners Learn the exciting technique of making Develop your creativity in mosaic design December 10–12 Work hot glass and discover the endless pattern bars murrini, that are fused and using different tiles in ceramics and glass. WE1635 | £224 | KATRINA BEATTIE trained in glass at Farnham possibilities of glass bead design. Use a then sliced up to create geometric patterns. You’ll learn direct and indirect techniques Beginners and specialises in both kiln formed techniques and torch flame to create coloured beads of You explore assembling these shapes of laying and grouting and the technique of Become familiar with the basic skills of the increasingly complex shapes and learn to in different ways eg. stacking or using cutting tiles into tesserae. glass blowing. She makes ranges of jewellery, blacksmith using mild steel and learn to apply decorative effects such as frits, canes, cabochons to make random or complex MARTIN CHEEK dishes, vases and paperweights. develop and realise successful designs using stringers, dots, gold stone and metal leaf. patterns. They are then cut and re-fused to these techniques. BARBARA MASON create larger pieces with repeat designs. EMMA BIGGS set up London’s Mosaic Workshop ANDREW SMITH KATRINA BEATTIE Mosaics – stone and smalti using the in 1987. She has been working on a public art cole elissa m hammer and hardie project Made in England, recording the history of Making and decorating glass beads March 7–11 the ceramic industry. An introduction to creative Basic blacksmithing May 9–12 Mosaics 4D1766 | £354 blacksmithing March 25–27 3D1898 | £353 Suitable for all February 4–6 WE1804 | £224 | MARTIN CHEEK trained in animation and has Intermediate Creative mosaics with found Make a small mosaic panel from the two WE1701 | £224 | NEW | Beginners been making mosaics since 1985. Working to Using coloured glass rods and the torch materials most beautiful materials available – stone Beginners Please see WE1635 above for further flame, learn to make and decorate glass November 9–12 with its natural subtlety and the brilliantly commission and exhibiting across the country, Learn the ancient techniques of information. beads with colourful twisted glass canes, 3D1573 | £276 coloured, enamelled glass known as smalti. he is also an experienced teacher. blacksmithing whilst creating a small ANDREW SMITH ribbons and latticini or apply dots to create Suitable for all Learn to shape these on the bench using contemporary sculptural piece or a geometric patterns and flowers. Develop a mosaic design using broken the mosaic hammer and hardie (chisel) KATHARINE COLEMAN uses the traditional functional item for the house or garden. BARBARA MASON china, found objects, shells, pebbles and and develop the design and construction technique of wheel engraving to produce MELISSA COLE Sculpture from scrap using conventional tesserae, and apply it using of your project with one-to-one guidance. contemporary work. She has won many awards blacksmithing techniques the direct method to a ceramic or cement Inspiring talks on the work of other artists with work in museum collections including the V&A. April 4–8 Glass engraving – decorative garden urn or a picture/mirror frame. are included. Hot-working metal – stainless, 4D1835 | £392 | lettering for drill engravers Advice and technical instruction are given EMMA BIGGS BRETT MANLEY works as a glass artist and bronze and aluminium Suitable for all May 13–15 at every stage including the finishing of your February 18–21 Take on your own ‘scrapheap challenge’ as ceramic and glass restorer. She also teaches in WE1903 | £186 mosaic urn or frame. LW1734 | £349 you create a satisfying sculpture from found London part-time, works to commission and sells Intermediate/Advanced CANDACE BAHOUTH Mosaics for beginners and improvers Suitable for all metal objects assembled with blacksmithing Focus on creating strong, well-designed April 22–25 work through exhibitions. Explore the hot-working of metals such as techniques! At the start learn basic forging letters and experiment with ways of LW1866 | £274 stainless steel, bronze and aluminium. You and joining processes and visit a local decorating them, having been inspired at Beginners/Intermediate BARBARA MASON has been making glass beads focus on techniques such as drawing down, scrapyard. Time is then spent considering the outset by some fine examples of early Please see WE1584 above for further at the torch since 1997. She studied with several bending, hot cutting and splitting and and responding to the design possibilities manuscripts to illustrate the subject. information. leading American glass bead artists and sells her should create a piece in which you assemble of your chosen recycled pieces before you TRACEY SHEPPARD MARTIN CHEEK work at bead fairs. your forged elements made from various embark on a project for your house or metals. The course includes a lecture on the garden. ALEX ROBINSON studied History of Art at the application of diverse metals to objects and PETER PARKINSON in architecture. All tools and materials are Courtauld Institute and glass at Central St Martins. provided. She takes commissions for architectural pieces and If you pay in full online you will ANDREW SMITH Creative blacksmithing projects receive a 5% discount for courses sells through exhibitions. April 15–19 in this brochure. 4D1855 | £429 | HELEN ROBINSON trained at Central St Martins Metal bugs – making outdoor Suitable for all and has been commissioned to produce many sculptures Work creatively in the Forge to develop memorial windows in churches. She also carries March 11–13 individual projects while also learning out restoration as well as teaching. WE1774 | £218 and extending your blacksmithing skills. B&B at West Dean – take a mid-week winter break Suitable for all Whether you are a beginner or have some Treat yourself to a mid-week break Bookings are for a minimum of 2 nights TRACEY SHEPPARD is a fellow of the Guild of Make a sculptural insect, reptile or fish for experience of this active and energetic craft, in the beautiful Sussex countryside, – £102 per night per room (single or Glass Engravers who exhibits widely. Recent your garden or pond from sheet metal and you are helped to develop your ideas and to recycled materials. Develop your design work towards completing your project, with enjoying the peace and serenity of double) including breakfast and free notable commissions include a pair of engraved idea as you explore techniques including one-to-one tuition from the tutor. You are our glorious gardens and the creative entry to the gardens and surrounding glass panels in Winchester Cathedral. atmosphere of the college. Our rooms Parkland. cutting, annealing, forming and shaping, encouraged to bring outline ideas with you are Visit Britain 3 star rated in a mixture using a range of tools. Finally, produce for discussion, bearing in mind suitability to of traditional and contemporary styles, Please note: we cannot accommodate SASHA WARD is a stained glass artist specialising inventive and decorative fixings. the medium and the time available. many of which have views across the children under 16 years of age. in enamelling on glass. Since graduating from the MIKE SAVAGE ANDREW SMITH gardens. For further details or to book Royal College of Art she has completed over 50 a room contact Reception commissions for public buildings. on 01243 818202 or email [email protected]
34 Fees listed for each course are non-residential – please see page 71 for accommodation costs | Short Courses November 2010–May 2011 0844 4994408 | [email protected] | on-line booking at www.westdean.org.uk 35 METALWORKING METALWORKING Blacksmithing and metalworking 35–36 Visual storytelling Enamelling 36–37 Jewellery 37–39 Silversmithing 39–41 For more information about our
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Sculptural blacksmithing – line Steel and stone – a sculpture course Screenprinting transfers for Making jewellery in silver Jewellery from wire and beads and form May 29–June 3 enamelling November 28–December 3 January 14–16 April 29–May 2 5D1935 | £498 January 24–27 5D1617 | £435 WE1664 | £199 LW1875 | £330 | NEW | Suitable for all 3D1574 | £300 | NEW Suitable for all Beginners Suitable for all Please see page 51 for further information. Intermediate/Advanced Explore your ideas for a piece of jewellery Enjoy using the simplest techniques and
Using the ancient and modern techniques PAULA HAUGHNEY AND Develop your vitreous enamel work with a acrae in silver and be guided by the tutor through no special equipment as you learn how to of blacksmithing, you explore the lines and PETER PARKINSON focus on the creative application of enamel m the designing and making process. You combine wire and beads imaginatively and forms of sculpture to create a contemporary transfers/decals. Following a presentation begin by communicating your concept in then make chains of beads with wire to
piece for the house or garden. You learn that introduces print techniques and sarah simple drawings. You then learn a range of wrap or space them. how to shape and bend, create points, Enamelling demonstrations showing the processes of techniques in general fabrication, surface SARA WITHERS punching, splitting and other modern making the transfers using on-glaze and Enamelling with small silkscreens decoration (including roller-printing and metal manipulation techniques to create an Enamelling on precious metals ceramic colours, you develop your own April 21–25 etching) and finishing and polishing, mostly individually designed piece. November 25–28 work on steel, copper and silver. 4D1862 | £354 on a one-to-one basis. The course begins Small-scale turning – wood, metal, MELISSA COLE LW1607 | £274 ELIZABETH TURRELL Suitable for all with an inspirational lecture on jewellery acrylic and other materials Intermediate/Advanced On this course you make silkscreen-printed including the diverse work of contemporary January 28–30 Create personal designs in coloured images in coloured enamels. Beginning studio jewellers. WE1682 | £186 Blacksmithing – an introduction to enamels on silver. Designed for those with Enamelling for beginners with a photocopied image of your own, you SARAH MACRAE Beginners technique some experience of working with precious March 4–6 will use a thermal imager to transfer it to Please see page 60 for further information. May 6–8 metals, you will enhance your work with WE1756 | £202 | NEW | a small screen. This will be used to print PETER CLOTHIER WE1892 | £224 | the expert tuition in the techniques of Beginners viscous acrylic enamels onto small pieces of Beadwork – three-dimensional Beginners cloisonné, champlevé, plique-à-jour and the Discover the alchemy of enamelling by first copper or pre-enamelled surfaces which are flowers Gain a feel for the nature and rhythm of the use of foils. practising on test pieces using copper, then then fired in a kiln. December 7–10 Perspex and polypropylene – perfect blacksmith’s craft, and an insight into the JOAN MACKARELL progress to working on small simple silver PAT JOHNSON 3D1632 | £274 plastics for jewellery vocabulary of forms which derive from the pieces of jewellery. How to translate colour Beginners/Intermediate January 28–31 hot forging process, as you work on small and texture ideas and using fine wires and Please see page 52 for further information. LW1690 | £284 projects or samples. Enamelling on copper – art and craft leaf are also covered. Enamelling on precious metals LIZ THORNTON Suitable for all PETER PARKINSON December 17–20 SHEILA R MCDONALD May 12–15 Explore the potential of Perspex, a solid LW1649 | £274 3D1848 | £274 acrylic plastic available in many forms, and Suitable for all Intermediate/Advanced An introduction to making jewellery polypropylene, a flexible, vibrantly coloured Achieve effective results in a short time Enamels – layering with fine gold Please see LW1607 on page 36 for further December 10–13 plastic, for making jewellery. Learn to cut, working with coloured enamels. Techniques and silver leaf information. LW1639 | £274 | form, bend, carve, connect and finish these are demonstrated for making simple March 6–9 JOAN MACKARELL Beginners exciting materials as you experiment and designs and pictures, both on flat copper 3D1763 | £300 | NEW Make a silver band ring as a starting point complete at least one piece. sheet and as small dishes and bowls. Intermediate and work towards completing an individual SARAH MACRAE Information is given on kilns and materials, Explore the technique of building up layers Jewellery project on this beginners’ course. enabling you to continue work at home. of enamel incorporating areas of gold and SARAH MACRAE PAT JOHNSON silver leaf, adding depth and richness to Narrative jewellery – a personal your enamelled areas. You can experiment story with the many new decorative possibilities November 15–19 Traditional and contemporary bead this approach opens up working on a range 4D1594 | £354 | NEW threading and knotting of test pieces or finished work. Intermediate/Advanced January 7–9 SHEILA R MCDONALD Explore a narrative theme in jewellery WE1657 | £186 where brooches often offer the best form Suitable for all for a story. You can work on a series of Learn the art of bead jewellery to a To help you choose the right course, pieces or just one piece, developing themes professional standard. After familiarisation please use the categories below: by using a storyboard. The course is ideas with tools and threading techniques, you Beginners anyone new to the subject or based rather than focusing on specific make a range of necklaces which may those who have not practised for a while techniques and you are encouraged to bring include antique and semi-precious beads. Intermediate those with some experience in precious found of personal memorabilia to PENNY DAVIS the subject, eg been on a beginners course incorporate into your work. Advanced established practitioners in the BARBARA CHRISTIE subject – amateur and professional Suitable for all courses that are delivered to Key to course codes suit any level of experience Colourful beadwork jewellery using HF Half day course WE Weekend Fri eve to Sun pm free-form techniques LW long weekend (Thu/Fri eve to Sun/Mon pm) November 26–28 MI specialist 9 day course WE1610 | £186 | NEW 2D 2 day course 5D 5 day course 3D 3 day course 6D 6 day course Beginners 4D 4 day course 7D 7 day course Please see page 52 for further information. 1D, 1F, 1M, FL, GL and MG 1 day courses MARILYN PHIPPS – times vary sara withers
36 Fees listed for each course are non-residential – please see page 71 for accommodation costs | Short Courses November 2010–May 2011 0844 4994408 | [email protected] | on-line booking at www.westdean.org.uk 37 METALWORKING METALWORKING Blacksmithing and metalworking 35–36 Enamelling 36–37 Jewellery 37–39 n s
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Ring-linking with stones and beads Antique glamour – new jewellery From bytes to jewellery bits – CAD An introduction to working with Playing with precious metals Silversmithing – developing for jewellery from old and rapid prototyping beads – fine silver and gold techniques February 25–28 March 25–27 March 29–April 1 April 26–29 May 23–27 November 21–25 LW1744 | £ 274 WE1800 | £207 | NEW 3D1816 | £284 | NEW 3D1871 | £289 | NEW 4D1924 | £354 | NEW 4D1603 | £354 Suitable for all Suitable for all Suitable for all Beginners Advanced Intermediate/Advanced Create an individual piece of jewellery as Upcycle old jewellery to make contemporary, Create designs for jewellery using CAD and A course for those who love beads but Gain confidence in working in If you have good technical and craft skills in you master the techniques of chain mail or unique pieces you’ll want to wear every day. then print them in three-dimensions. This aren’t quite sure how to work with them unconventional and experimental ways with silversmithing, jewellery or associated fields ring-linking, using semi-precious stones or You use techniques such as crocheting with rapid prototyped model can either be used with ‘sampler’ sessions on a variety of precious metals through demonstrations, such as engineering, this course provides beads in your design to add colour, pattern wire, wire-wrapping, plaiting and threading, as a finished item, as a master for creating techniques. We look at choice of tools, direct experimentation, illustrated talks and an exceptional opportunity to extend your and detail. to make statement necklaces, chunky a mould for casting, or used to cast from working with wire, simple knotting, discussions. Techniques and topics covered range whilst working on a personal project. ALISON EVANS cuffs, big bling rings and elegant, stylish directly. Whilst the focus of examples and finishing and an introduction to beadwork include diffusion-welding, striptwist, Practical teaching is given in advanced headdresses. exercises is jewellery, this course will be of and loomwork. eutectic soldering and forming decorative constructional techniques and decorative SARAH DREW interest to people in other fields. SARA WITHERS elements. treatments to assist the development of Three-dimensional jewellery – LUCIAN TAYLOR JACQUELINE MINA your skills. etched and pressed metals. BRIAN MARSHALL March 11–14 Found free – make jewellery from Non-traditional stone-setting for LW1777 | £274 beach finds and junk Jewellery for complete beginners jewellers A large selection of glass bead Intermediate/Advanced March 27–30 using silver and other materials May 6–8 making and fused glass jewellery Silversmithing for beginners Experiment with precious and semi- 3D1809 | £284 | NEW April 1–3 WE1889 | £186 | NEW courses can be found in the Glass December 3–5 precious metals to develop your design and Suitable for all WE1819 | £186 | Intermediate/Advanced section on pages 33–34. WE1621 | £186 making skills by learning various surface Make recycled jewellery from driftwood, Beginners Learn to add stones to your jewellery using Beginners etching techniques. You can also use the sea-glass, pebbles and odd bits and bobs to Make a simple silver ring which covers contemporary stone setting techniques Silversmithing A magical journey awaits those new to hydraulic press to create three-dimensional make ingenious contemporary designs. The the techniques of piercing, shaping, filing, including ‘flush’, ‘channel’ and ‘tension’ silversmithing. Learn from the tutor’s jewellery shapes and everyone should tutor guides you through suggested projects hammering, soldering and finishing, and setting. You develop an understanding of the Silversmithing – raising a bowl demonstrations as you get to grips with the complete at least one piece. and will bring materials to add to your finds then explore surface decoration with a practical considerations when incorporating October 31–November 4 basic craftsmanship of forging, blocking, BARBARA CHRISTIE including wire, semi-precious stones and second piece of jewellery. stones and make some basic tools. 4D1555 | £354 planishing, soldering and annealing. Expect findings. DAPHNE KRINOS PENNY DAVIS Suitable for all to complete a silver spoon and small bowl. SARAH DREW Learn the process of raising as the making HOWARD FENN Using resin in jewellery of a three-dimensional object from a March 17–20 Making jewellery with polymer clay Making jewellery in silver single piece of silver to produce a bowl is LW1784 | £307 April 3–6 May 15–20 demystified. This is a technique at the heart General silversmithing – constructing Suitable for all 3D1828 | £293 5D1909 | £435 of all silversmithing – master this and you and raising Using simple materials and methods make Beginners/Intermediate Suitable for all are well on your way! December 5–10 a mould to cast your own resin jewellery. Learn how to make and finish colourful, Please see 5D1617 on page 37 for further ADRIAN HOPE 5D1631 | £435 Explore colour and light while considering patterned polymer clay jewellery. The information. Suitable for all the sculptural qualities of polyester resin course covers the basic techniques, from SARAH MACRAE Explore your ideas for making silver objects and gaining an understanding of the preparing the clay (Fimo) for use to rolling General silversmithing, with an and advance your skills on this in-depth techniques in other resins. snakes and logs, adding colour mixes, emphasis on boxmaking course. You learn methods for creating KATHIE MURPHY building a complex cane for decorating your Introducing stones in jewellery November 5–7 and finishing forms in sheet metal using beads and incorporating them into strung making WE1559 | £186 techniques such as press forming, casting bead necklaces and pendants. May 20–23 Suitable for all and hand forging. The course combines CAROL BLACKBURN LW1917 | £274 Explore the traditional silversmithing contemporary and traditional approaches Intermediate/Advanced techniques of raising, forging, sinking, box and you are encouraged to work on Learn the techniques of successfully setting making, soldering and finishing. Advanced individual projects. Traditional and contemporary bead stones in jewellery and designing with makers can concentrate on making hinges JOHN NORGATE threading and knotting stones. Firstly you make a simple silver ring and joints. April 15–17 with a ‘rub over’ setting and then create JOHN NORGATE WE1851 | £186 your own pieces in silver or gold, using Suitable for all round or oval stones in cabochon and Please see WE1657 on page 37 for further faceted cuts. Precious reticules and purses – silk, information. DAPHNE KRINOS silver and stitch PENNY DAVIS November 7–10 3D1569 | £295 | NEW Suitable for all Please see page 55 for further information. MAKE A GIFT DAYS EMILY JO GIBBS
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38 Fees listed for each course are non-residential – please see page 71 for accommodation costs | Short Courses November 2010–May 2011 0844 4994408 | [email protected] | on-line booking at www.westdean.org.uk 39 STUDY DAYS Regular study days in silversmithing with METALWORKING John Norgate and jewellery with Sarah cTourutorses Blacksmithing and metalworking 35–36 Macrae take place throughout the year. Metalworking Enamelling 36–37 These one-day courses are suitable for title Jewellery 37–39 p e
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Decorative chasing and repoussé, An introduction to Mokume Gane General silversmithing, with an Beginners’ silversmithing CAROL BLACKBURN is a designer who works with PAT JOHNSON is an artist-enameller and a including gold inlay February 28–March 4 emphasis on boxmaking May 27–30 polymer clay, beads, and tassels. She is an active writer on enamelling. She undertakes large-scale January 9–14 4D1750 | £354 April 15–17 LW1930 | £274 | NEW | member of the British and American Polymer Clay work, bowls and pictures. Commissions include 5D1662 | £435 | NEW Intermediate/Advanced WE1849 | £186 Beginners Guilds and studied textiles at Manchester and the murals for the Peabody Trust. Intermediate/Advanced Discover the fundamentals of the decorative Suitable for all Learn the basic skills in making a small Royal College of Art. Decorate a small piece of silver using the Japanese metalworking technique known Please see WE1559 on page 39 for further cylindrical lidded container from silver. You ROD KELLY, a silversmith, trained at the Royal fascinating techniques of chasing and as ‘wood grain metal’. Using specialist information. first anneal the metal, form simple shapes, BEAULAGH CHAPMAN-BROOKS trained at the College of Art. He specialises in low relief repoussé. You learn about the preparation equipment, you are shown how to create JOHN NORGATE fit and join sections by soldering and then of silver and making steel tools for chasing laminated sheets from sandwiched layers clean up and finish off. Royal College of Art and specialised in anticlastic chasing and has work in major collections and how to form three-dimensional shapes of silver, copper or gilding metals. You BEAULAGH CHAPMAN-BROOKS raising. She is a part-time lecturer at London including the V&A, and Goldsmiths Hall and and add detail. You could also make a then learn to develop patterns using a drill, An introduction to anti-clastic raising Metropolitan and makes both silverware and several Royal households. simple raised bowl to decorate with chasing punch, file, chisel or twist and finally to April 17–21 jewellery. or experiment with gold and copper inlay. patinate your sample Mokume Gane sheets. 4D1861 | £387 DAPHNE KRINOS trained at Middlesex in the ROD KELLY ALISTAIR MCCALLUM Intermediate/Advanced BARBARA CHRISTIE works as a designer-maker eighties, since when she has been designing and Explore the potential of this fascinating of jewellery. She trained at London Guildhall making her distinctive jewellery featured in many silversmithing and jewellery technique for University and recently retired as head of the publications and exhibitions in the UK and abroad. creating three-dimensional forms in metal. Silversmithing – crimp raising and Silversmithing – developing jewellery department at Morley College, London. Her work is in several public collections. sinking techniques Using sheet gilding metals for practical January 14–17 March 20–25 exercises, you develop an understanding MELISSA COLE is an artist blacksmith with 17 JOAN MACKARELL is an enameller and maker LW1668 | £274 | NEW 5D1794 | £435 of the possibilities of the forms which can Intermediate/Advanced Intermediate/Advanced be created from the convex and concave years’ teaching experience and has work in public of smallwork and jewellery. Until recently she Gain a thorough understanding of these Please see 4D1603 on page 39 for further shaping of metals. The emphasis is on and private collections. She creates forged metal taught at London Metropolitan University and two techniques to make circular and bowl- information. experimentation as you create test pieces pieces that flow with distinct rhythm drawn from is a founder-member of the British Society of shaped forms in copper, gilding metal or BRIAN MARSHALL for future reference. sharply observed natural form and works to Enamellers. silver. To crimp raise you use a special stake BEAULAGH CHAPMAN-BROOKS MAKE YOUR OWN WEDDING RINGS commission, exhibiting regularly. to make crimps that drive the metal up and With this ring, I thee wed… what could be SARAH MACRAE, a studio jeweller and teacher, more romantic than giving and receiving then are smoothed out when you bouge Patinating and colouring non-ferrous PENNY DAVIS trained at Sheffield Hallam trained at the University of Brighton. She is author a ring that you have made for each other. it. With sinking, you form into a concave metals An introduction to chasing and University and works for the trade as well as of Designing and Making Jewellery and exhibits indentation. April 3–7 repoussé The gold rings that you’ll make on this producing her own work. She is an experienced regularly with the Designer Jewellers Group. BRIAN CLARKE 4D1830 | £440 | NEW April 29–May 1 one day course will remain with you as a maker who constructs, enamels and threads beads. Suitable for all WE1872 | £186 | NEW symbol of your love and commitment to BRIAN MARSHALL trained at the Royal College Experiment with traditional techniques Beginners one another. Beginners’ silversmithing – exploring to produce a wide variety of colours and Learn the traditional processes of chasing SARAH DREW runs a business in Cornwall making of Art and was principal lecturer in silversmithing raising and forming surface effects on copper, copper alloy and and repoussé to develop the surface You can either re-use jewellery or metal jewellery and fashion accessories from recycled & jewellery at London Metropolitan University. February 4–6 silver. Use proprietary brands and learn to modelling and/or texturing of metal. that you may already have, from a antique brooches and beads and reclaimed Now a freelance designer-maker and Secretary WE1698 | £186 | mix your own solutions, applying them with Following a demonstration on how to make sentimental and meaningful source, or use flotsam and jetsam from the beach. Largely self to Goldsmiths’ Craft & Design Council. Beginners/Intermediate brushes, mist sprays, ragging and flicking. tools, you can work in representational metal you have purchased. taught, she also teaches a range of workshops. Explore a range of silversmithing You will produce a sample board of up to imagery or explore three-dimensional ALISTAIR MCCALLUM has practised the metal techniques on this introductory course, 60 different finishes – a feature that may pattern. You are guided by the tutor, step-by-step, ALISON EVANS is well known for her exquisite working technique of Mokume Gane for over 20 also suitable for those with some previous appeal particularly to sculptors, silversmiths BRIAN MARSHALL in the processes of casting, wire drawing, jewellery based around the techniques of chain years. He trained at Loughborough and the RCA, experience. We look at conventional raising and conservators. forming, soldering, filing, finishing and mail. She trained at Portsmouth and exhibits her teaches, and exhibits work worldwide. and sinking methods and then go on to JON PRIVETT polishing to produce wedding rings that anticlastic raising and fold forming, with a Silversmithing for beginners and work in London and internationally. chance to make a finished piece or several intermediates are individual and eternally yours. Please SHEILA R MCDONALD is a graduate of Glasgow samples. Hand engraving on metal May 1–6 email [email protected] HOWARD FENN, an award-winning silversmith, School of Art and the Royal College of Art. She LUCIAN TAYLOR April 8–11 5D1884 | £435 trained at London Metropolitan University. Recent works as a freelance jeweller and enameller, LW1839 | £274 Beginners/Intermediate Hallmarking and engraving on request. shows include ‘Collect’ at the V&A, Goldsmiths’ undertakes commissions and exhibits widely. Suitable for all Develop your silversmithing skills and Fair, and ‘A Field of Silver’ at London’s Flow General silversmithing – constructing Take the opportunity to explore the confidence in designing and making an JON PRIVETT is senior lecturer on the Gallery. JACQUELINE MINA studied jewellery at Hornsey and raising specialist field of hand-engraving as you are object in this craft medium, whether a Conservation of Metalwork programme at West and the Royal College of Art. Winner of the 2000 February 20–25 introduced to a range of tools and practise beginner or with some experience. You Dean and is an experienced conservator and ADRIAN HOPE is a silversmith who trained at Jerwood Prize for Jewellery, Mina is the UK’s 5D1736 | £435 various decorative techniques. These begin with a discussion and review of your metalsmith. He is qualified in Archaeology, Art Sheffield. He has completed commissions for foremost contemporary goldsmith, with work in Suitable for all include monograms, scrollwork, heraldic ideas and objectives and then embark on History and the Conservation and Restoration of The Goldsmiths’ Company and De Beers, and many public collections. Please see 5D1631 on page 39 for further devices, piercing and carving, and then you an individual project which is designed metal work. information. can work on individual projects. to enable you to practise specific skills exhibited at the Scottish Gallery. JOHN NORGATE WAYNE PARROTT and achieve your aims. Basic and more KATHIE MURPHY trained in jewellery at complicated techniques and some machine TERI HOWES established her workshop in London Middlesex University and is on the Crafts processes are demonstrated as appropriate. in 2006 having initially trained as a graphic Council’s Selected Index. In 2002 she wrote Resin BRIAN MARSHALL If you pay in full online you will designer. 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40 Fees listed for each course are non-residential – please see page 71 for accommodation costs | Short Courses November 2010–May 2011 0844 4994408 | [email protected] | on-line booking at www.westdean.org.uk 41 Tcutorourses MUSIC AND MUSIC Tutors titMetalwleorking APPRECIATION MUSIC AND MUSIC APPRECIATION xx Music 42–43 xx Music appreciation 43 xx
JOHN NORGATE trained at Aspreys and Sir Music Songs to the lute and guitar A taste of Ghana – traditional The music of Beethoven’s last period Noted for her extensive educational work, John Cass where he also taught for many years. April 1–3 African drumming, singing and January 28–30 PENELOPE CAVE has given masterclasses, In 2010 he was a gold and silver award winner at Heroines, temptresses and villains – WE1824 | £186 dancing WE1688 | £195 | NEW workshops and courses and is a well known Goldsmiths for craftsmanship and design. an opera singing weekend Intermediate/Advanced May 6–8 Suitable for all soloist, broadcaster and recording artist. November 5–7 This is a practical course for confident WE1893 | £186 | NEW Come closer to understanding the WE1563 | £186 solo singers and players of the lute or Suitable for all extraordinary depth, originality and PETER PARKINSON is an artist-blacksmith with THE CHILINGIRIAN QUARTET is one of the Intermediate/Advanced guitar. Appropriate music of any period or Join this unique practical workshop and profound and transcendent spirituality of extensive teaching experience who studied at the world’s most celebrated ensembles, renowned for Singers bring six varied extracts from style is welcome, and interpretation and experience the complexity of African the music written by the almost completely Royal College of Art. He has published several the world of opera in order to work on performing confidence is explored in a drumming. Instruments on offer include deaf Beethoven in his final years. their interpretations of the great quartets and of books including Forged Architectural Metalwork. technique, interpretation and performance supportive and encouraging atmosphere. a full set of Ghanaian drums, xylophones, ROY STRATFORD the contemporary repertoire. skills. The weekend includes an opportunity MICHAEL FIELDS bells and shakers, and there will also be WAYNE PARROTT, a Fellow of the Institute to perform in an informal concert. time to explore Ghanaian musical culture ALISON CRUM is known world-wide as a player, of Professional Goldsmiths, is an experienced SUSAN STACEY WITH MARCUS MARTIN with traditional dance and song. Mozart – The Early String Quartets teacher and writer on the viol. She studied music teacher and runs an engraving workshop Ensemble! Playing the guitar in a MARGARET FERGUSON March 12 at Reading University and is now Professor of Viol specialising in heraldic work. group 1M1946 | £76 | NEW at Trinity College of Music. Viol consort music April 15–17 Suitable for all January 7–9 WE1852 | £186 | NEW The Chilingirian Quartet will discuss and JON PRIVETT is tutor for the Conservation of Recorder consort weekend Ghanaian born soprano MARGARET FERGUSON WE1658 | £186 Advanced May 20–22 perform movements from Mozart’s early Metalwork programme at West Dean and is an studied singing at the Royal Northern College Intermediate/Advanced Improve your musicianship and sight- WE1915 | £186 works in this genre: K 80, 158 and 160. experienced conservator and metalsmith. He is 17th Century English music forms the basis reading through playing in a group Intermediate LEVON CHILINGIRIAN, of Music in Manchester. In addition to pursuing qualified in Archaeology, Art History and the of this course intended for intermediate or with music ranging from orchestral A weekend for recorder players exploring RONALD BIRKS, SUSIE MÉSZÁROS an extensive performing career she has taught Conservation and Restoration of Metalwork. advanced players of treble, tenor or bass transcriptions to pieces written for guitar a wide variety of consort music, from the AND PHILIP DE GROOTE African drumming and dancing throughout the UK. viols who are confident in sight-reading and ensemble. Suggested minimum level is Renaissance to the present day, covering MIKE SAVAGE trained at Camberwell College playing one-to-a-part. Grade 6. a fresh repertoire from previous courses. MICHAEL FIELDS is a highly regarded accompanist of Arts and the Royal College of Art. His large- ALISON CRUM AND ROY MARKS GERALD GARCIA Participants should be competent playing Mozart and his operas and soloist on lute and guitar. He has worked scale metal sculptures are commissioned by one-to-a-part on both C & F instruments. April 8–10 with singers as diverse as Emma Kirkby and architects and exhibited internationally. HELEN HOOKER WE1838 | £186 | NEW Van Morrison and teaches on short courses J.S. Bach – a course for harpsichord Guitar ensemble workshop Suitable for all worldwide. players April 15–17 Explore the relationship of Mozart’s operas ANDREW SMITH, an experienced artist, February 4–6 WE1853 | £186 | NEW Music appreciation to his life, the culture of his time and the craftsman and tutor, trained at the Royal College JACQUELYN FUGELLE is one of the most versatile WE1703 | £186 | NEW Intermediate work of other composers with copious of Art. He has a large portfolio of architectural Intermediate/Advanced Experience the enjoyment of playing The English Scene – music musical illustrations and some DVD clips. sopranos of her generation, performing in opera, commissions, from sculpture to functional On this practical course the music of Bach classical guitar in an ensemble with a appreciation RICHARD GREGSON operetta, oratorio and recital. She also teaches metalwork. offers keyboard players a wide repertoire of variety of styles of music and musical November 26–28 singing, adjudicates, and gives workshops and essential styles and techniques. We look at periods. Everyone has an individual lesson WE1612 | £186 | NEW masterclasses in the UK and abroad. ELIZABETH TURRELL trained as a ceramicist, but fingering, touch and interpretation whilst and there are sessions on improving sight- Suitable for all Please see the Events Section on page 5 is also renowned for her work as an enamel sharing practise-methods in a relaxed reading skills and techniques. From a starting point of Beowulf in for information on afternoon music lectures: GERALD GARCIA combines a career in artist. She has exhibited and taught widely, and is workshop setting. ANDREW GOUGH the minstrel tradition and plainchant performing and recording guitar music with director of Studio Fusion, London. Penelope CAVE to Harrison Birtwistle, we explore the Music for the Moving Image: Films, composing and arranging for films and the stage. development of English art music. We TV and Advertising He is an experienced director of educational Explore jazz will also discuss the political, social and October 17 SARA WITHERS has been designing and making workshops and conducts numerous amateur guitar Masterclasses for singers April 29–May 2 religious situations and context within the Stephen Baystead jewellery with beads for many years. She is ensembles in Britain. March 4–6 LW1877 | £186 | NEW European tradition. author of many books on bead jewellery projects, WE1759 | £186 Intermediate/Advanced MOIRA USHER AND PAM SMITH including co-authoring The Encyclopedia of Intermediate/Advanced This is an exciting opportunity to play jazz How to listen to music with greater JOHN GIBBONS is a professional conductor Beading Techniques. Improve your vocal technique and within a small ensemble. You rehearse perception with a vast range of experience. He won a performance as you work on six songs of arrangements of popular jazz pieces, November 13 British Music Society Award for promoting the your choice (in any style, genre or language) discuss and employ useful approaches to John Gibbon understanding of music. in informal masterclasses and workshops improvisation and also examine group and end the course with a short recital. interaction. Suitable for all instruments IAN GLEDHILL has worked extensively in the JACQUELYN FUGELLE WITH and vocalists, with pianists, bassists A conductor’s ear on listening professional theatre as director, designer and MARCUS MARTIN and drummers especially welcome. The March 5 translator. His English translations of opera and emphasis is on playing and having fun. John Gibbon operetta have been performed worldwide. MIKE HALL
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ANDREW GOUGH is Head of Guitar at A good level of computer competence is An introduction to digital image Digital colour photography Birmingham Conservatoire Junior School. He essential for all courses in this section. manipulation May 6–8 has given recitals throughout the UK and is an December 10–12 WE1890 | £186 | orchestral guitarist with the City of Birmingham WE1636 | £195 | Beginners Symphony Orchestra. PHOTOGRAPHY AND DIGITAL Beginners Find and create dynamic colour images IMAGE MANIPULATION Learn the fundamentals of retouching, using your digital camera in the grounds of montage and image manipulation in West Dean and gain confidence in seeing Saxophonist and composer MIKE HALL is Leader Getting to grips with your digital SLR Adobe Photoshop as you gain experience the results of your photographs before you of Jazz Studies at the Royal Northern College of camera in working with filters, layers, masks, paths process them. Music. As well as maintaining a busy performing November 5–7 and tools, using your own digital image files. HOWARD COLES
schedule, he directs the Canford and Normandy WE1562 | £193 MARK HOWARD H urst Jazz Summer Schools. Beginners Increase your skills and confidence in Creative photography for digital Jacqui Jacqui HELEN HOOKER studied at Trinity College of using your DSLR camera – learn to judge Creative use of Photoshop for makers camera users Music and is a teacher and performer. She is music which programme to use and focus on and artists May 8–12 adviser to the Society of Recorder Players and taking satisfying images on location. Basic January 14–17 Insights into digital SLR photography Gaining control of your digital SLR 4D1895 | £354 computer skills are required. LW1670 | £300 | March 7–11 Beginners/Intermediate gives recorder recitals. camera JACQUI HURST Beginners/Intermediate 4D1767 | £354 April 1–3 Capture striking images as you learn how Create digital applied decoration from Beginners/Intermediate WE1823 | £186 | the selection and interpretation of subject ROY MARKS is a member of several chamber and photographs and drawings using Adobe Learn how to give your images that special Beginners/Intermediate matter and digital camera know-how makes orchestral ensembles, and in addition to teaching On location – digital SLR Photoshop. You then learn how to apply this impact! Explore the art of photography, Explore the features of your digital SLR all the difference. The picture-rich locality, and performing, composes original music for photography surface treatment to artworks in various looking at subject matter and photographic and maximize the quality of the images including Chichester Harbour, provides period instruments. November 22–26 media such as glass, wood and fabric using techniques including ways of setting up you capture, as the issues of various many opportunities for producing a range 4D1605 | £363 | NEW Lazertran. Other techniques for translating your camera and making the most of light. file formats, white balance, resolution, of satisfying prints in black and white and MARCUS MARTIN is a pianist, teacher and Beginners digital files into applied decoration are also You also study the craft, mastering your exposure techniques and depth of field are colour. conductor. After a long, varied career in music Explore landscape photography on location discussed. camera controls, menu and functions and demystified. HOWARD COLES education he is currently Music Course Consultant in classic rural settings and in urban and ALISON MILNER spending time in the digital darkroom. TIM SAVAGE at West Dean College. other environments. Learn how to use Skills are developed on projects in a variety your camera’s scene modes and manual of locations. Advanced digital photography and settings, how to create dynamic and Creative digital photography HOWARD COLES Creative use of Photoshop for surface Photoshop PAM SMITH studied piano, viola and clarinet and effective compositions and to produce February 4–6 decoration and designs May 20–22 returned later to the recorder and early music. panoramic landscapes. The tutor is available WE1702 | £193 | April 12–15 WE1914 | £195 An experienced teacher and communicator, she throughout to help you get to grips with Beginners Studio lighting and portraiture for 3D1847 | £286 | Intermediate/Advanced conducts various ensembles and directs courses your camera controls and to offer advice Learn to exploit the potential of your digital SLR camera users Intermediate If you have a good grasp of digital camera throughout the UK. and one-to-one guidance. digital camera and produce good images, March 18–20 Learn to use Adobe Photoshop to create and Adobe Photoshop techniques, you learn STEPHEN WALBY as you download into a software package WE1788 | £194 | NEW surface decoration or designs based on more advanced uses of the Photoshop tool SUSAN STACEY has appeared in major roles and explore the editing and enhancement Beginners drawings, photographs and scans of box and palettes and proficiency with the on many of the world’s operatic stages and facilities offered by Adobe Photoshop. Learn to set up various lighting scenarios textures and found or made objects as interface and workflow on this course. concert halls. She directs London Opera Vocal, Creative digital imaging – beyond TIM SAVAGE using professional studio equipment and to a starting point. Build on your skills as TIM SAVAGE pose and shoot great portraits working with you explore techniques such as brushing, specialising in courses for singers. the basics December 3–5 a portrait model. Some Adobe Photoshop cutting, colouring, making repeat patterns WE1625 | £195 | Better photographs from your editing is included. and the use of filters. ROY STRATFORD studied at Reading University Intermediate compact digital camera STEPHEN WALBY ALISON MILNER and the Royal College of Music. He is Head of Expand your existing knowledge of digital February 11–13 Piano and Chamber Music at St Paul’s School, photography further and learn to use Adobe WE1714 | £186 London, and a conductor and lecturer. 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CS 47 POTTERY AND CERAMICS Tutors SCULPTURE POTTERY AND CERAMICS Automata making, clocks and puppetry 49 Carving in stone and wood 49–50 Modelling, casting and other techniques 50–52
Paperworks and paper clay – make, Pottery – hand building and throwing GORDON COOKE is an experienced potter and Automata making, clocks and Make a small-scale shadow puppet Making moving toys and automata shape and cast April 21–25 teacher with over 30 years’ experience. His work puppetry theatre May 2–6 March 21–24 4D1863 | £391 is in many public collections worldwide. He also November 15–19 4D1886 | £371 3D1795 | £280 | Suitable for all has professional interest in landscape and planting Simple automata 4D1598 | £364 Suitable for all Suitable for all Explore pottery at your own level and design. November 15–19 Suitable for all Learn how to make a simple moving toy as Take advantage of a unique opportunity develop your skills and ideas with one- 4D1592 | £364 | Explore the magic of shadow theatre and a practice piece, then take off and develop to explore papermaking and unravel the to-one tuition. As a beginner, you start Suitable for all puppetry – an ancient but ever evolving and complete your own unique item. You CAROL FARROW is an artist working in handmade mysteries of making paper clay, often used by getting the feel of the clay through Make a balancing toy as an introduction tradition – as you create your own story, get to grips with basic types of mechanical to make ceramic objects. Learn how to wedging and preparing it, then make and and cast paper, paper-clay and textiles. She to materials and tools, and then develop miniature theatre, sets and puppets using movement and learn simple techniques for make, cast, paint and wax paper and to decorate thumb/pinch pots and pots using trained at Goldsmiths College and works from designs for an automaton, to be made mainly recycled materials. The tutor gives a shaping wood and working with metal and prepare, construct and colour paper clay other hand building techniques; you can studios in London and S.W. France. principally in wood using basic skills. You suitcase shadow theatre performance and other materials. Designing skills are also forms. also try out throwing on the wheel. More learn about simple ways of producing demonstrates techniques to use in your discussed and, for inspiration, the tutor CAROL FARROW experienced potters build on their skills CAROLYN GENDERS is well known for her mechanical movement and are encouraged own creation using a wide range of samples brings a large collection of toys. in hand building and/or throwing and are hand-built sculptural forms with burnished and to use reclaimed, recycled, interesting and examples. IAN MCKAY shown new techniques as appropriate. vitreous slip surfaces. A fellow of the Craft materials. The tutor’s own work and his ELEANOR GLOVER Making jewellery with polymer clay ALISON SANDEMAN Potters Association she is the author of Sources collection of automata and books provide April 3–6 further inspiration. of Inspiration. Carving in stone and wood 3D1828 | £293 ROBERT RACE Simple automata Beginners/Intermediate Surface texture in clay – the February 11–14 Small stone carvings in alabaster IAN GREGORY produces sculptural raku and salt- Please see page 38 for further information. decorative potential LW1717 | £279 | and soapstone CAROL BLACKBURN May 13–15 glazed ceramics. He lectures at the University of Stop motion animation Suitable for all November 12–15 WE1904 | £201 | Westminster and teaches clay sculpture technique November 15–19 Please see 4D1592 above for further LW1586 | £274 | Suitable for all and kiln building. 4D1593 | £366 | NEW information. Suitable for all Sculpting in clay – pigs, chickens and Explore a wide range of impressed Suitable for all ROBERT RACE Make a sculpture up to 15cm high using sheep decoration techniques using roulettes, DUNCAN HOOSON works in a wide range of Please see page 46 for further information. small stones and working with rifflers, rasps April 3–8 stamps and casts in a variety of clays. Ways ceramic techniques and is renowned for his large- WILL BISHOP-STEPHENS and occasionally hammers and chisels. 5D1831 | £483 of enhancing your designs with coloured scale wheel-thrown pots. He has been artist-in- An introduction to clock making Tools are provided and ideas for these Suitable for all slips including inlay, dry brushing, trailing residence on many projects. April 8–12 carvings may be figurative or abstract with Please see page 51 for further information. and resists are also explored. Make a puppet and bring it to life 4D1841 | £406 beginners easily finishing at least one piece. JON BARRETT-DANES DUNCAN HOOSON November 15–19 Beginners PAULA HAUGHNEY CLAIRE IRELAND produces hand-built sculptural 4D1595 | £371 An introduction to the process used in ceramics with a figurative theme, using a variety Beginners/Intermediate clockmaking, including an overview of Gravity-defying coil pots and Developing a sense of form for of decorative techniques. She is a member of the Meet Pinkle’s Puppet Circus, then embark its history and the philosophy of 21st Small stone carvings in alabaster vitreous slips wheel-made pots Society of Designer Craftsmen and the Craftsman on your own journey of devising, making century manufacture. Following the initial and soapstone April 8–12 May 27–29 Potters Association. and performing with small hand and overall design and calculation of individual February 11–14 4D1840 | £388 | WE1927 | £207 | rod puppets on the Gravy Boat Puppet components, you participate in practical LW1719 | £274 | Intermediate/Advanced Intermediate/Advanced ALISON SANDEMAN is a long-standing tutor Theatre stage in the end-of-course show. demonstrations of machine tools and use Suitable for all Develop more advanced coiling techniques Discover and develop a personal sense at West Dean. She makes functional stoneware Inspired by research gathered from hand tools and other associated processes. Please see LW1586 above for further and take your ideas further as you of form as you first examine the work of and individual pieces with a special interest in source materials and eclectic music, you This course can be seen as a precursor to information. concentrate on the form, balance and various potters, past and present, then then start modelling, create an armature, the full-time Diploma programme. PAULA HAUGHNEY porcelain and raku. rhythm of your work. You also consider the devote the majority of your time to making assemble, sew, paint and attach hair to your MATTHEW READ natural relationship of the surface to the your own pots on the wheel, under the puppet. Basic puppetry techniques are also form and explore surface texture and colour watchful eye of the tutor. explored. To help you choose the right course, using vitreous slips on test tiles. You should ALISON SANDEMAN ISOBEL SMITH please use the categories below: complete several pots in clays with exciting surfaces that do not need glazing. Beginners anyone new to the subject or CAROLYN GENDERS A practical glazing day those who have not practised for a while June 5 Intermediate those with some experience in 1D1940 | £93 the subject, eg been on a beginners’ course Creative use of Photoshop for surface Suitable for all Advanced established practitioners in the decoration and designs Please see 1D1641 on page 47 for further subject – amateur and professional April 12–15 information. Suitable for all courses that are delivered to suit any level of experience 3D1847 | £286 ALISON SANDEMAN Intermediate Please see page 45 for further information. ALISON MILNER At the end of a pottery course, you may
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48 Fees listed for each course are non-residential – please see page 71 for accommodation costs | Short Courses November 2010–May 2011 0844 4994408 | [email protected] | on-line booking at www.westdean.org.uk 49 If you pay in full online you will SCULPTURE receive a 5% discount for courses SCULPTURE Automata making, clocks and puppetry 49 Carving in stone and wood 49–50 in this brochure. Modelling, casting and other techniques 50–52 dwards E
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Lettercutting in stone and slate The Green Man – developing a Modelling, casting and other Making small sculptures from Sculpting in clay – pigs, chickens and Sculptural blacksmithing – line and February 28–March 4 sculpture from clay to stone techniques recycled tin sheep form 4D1751 | £354 April 29–May 2 February 25–28 April 3–8 April 29–May 2 Suitable for all LW1874 | £274 | NEW Sculpting the head in clay – an LW1745 | £279 | 5D1831 | £483 LW1875 | £330 | NEW Please see page 23 for further information. Suitable for all anatomical approach Suitable for all Suitable for all Suitable for all TOM PERKINS Research your ideas for a historical or November 21–24 Experiment and create imaginative Immerse yourself in the Barrett-Danes Please see page 36 for further information. contemporary sculpture of a Green Man 3D1602 | £313 sculptures, whatever your level of family’s ceramic tradition as you learn to MELISSA COLE and learn to translate this into a clay model, Suitable for all experience, using materials such as biscuit create vivid and expressive animal forms Traditional oil gilding the details of which you then transfer onto Working from a model, learn each stage in tins. Techniques covered include soldering, using a wide range of pottery techniques. March 4–6 a stone block. You learn all the traditional the process of sculpting a head and create cutting, beating and using pliers. You create First, time is spent studying and recording Steel and stone – a sculpture course WE1757 | £194 techniques for stone removal at each stage a finished piece for subsequent firing. practice pieces as well as one or two finished the special characteristics of each animal – May 29–June 3 Beginners as you carve your piece, supported by step- Work starts with armature building and works – the more experimental the better! this stage is vital. You then consider overall 5D1935 | £498 Please see page 61 for further information. by-step demonstrations. Some experience sculpting the skull and then proceeds to the LUCY CASSON balance and proportion before making the Suitable for all JUDY WETHERALL of carving or clay modelling is an advantage. various muscle groups. You learn moulding first base. Complete animals, wall-mounted This exciting course involves two elements SIMON KEELEY and casting, before covering finishing heads and headed pots can be undertaken forged together – fire and rock – and takes techniques. Metal bugs – making outdoor and everyone should finish at least two you on an experimental journey as you push Lettercutting in wood IAN EDWARDS sculptures pieces. out the boundaries of these two materials March 13–17 Relief carving in stone – plant forms March 11–13 JON BARRETT-DANES and explore ways of combining them to 4D1779 | £354 May 20–22 WE1774 | £218 create a piece of sculpture. Metalworking Suitable for all WE1913 | £186 | Ceramic sculpture, using paper-clay Suitable for all involves processes where material can Please see page 24 for further information. Beginners and armatures Please see page 35 for further information. Sculpture from scrap using be added as well as removed, while stone MARTIN WENHAM Experience the process of carving a relief in January 23–27 MIKE SAVAGE blacksmithing techniques carving is about forming by reduction. limestone, from developing ideas based on 4D1679 | £406 April 4–8 Working on your own project you extend plants to hand cutting your design directly Suitable for all 4D1835 | £392 skills in both disciplines thinking creatively Flights of fancy – carving birds in onto the stone using traditional tools such Please see page 47 for further information. Capturing the movement of animals Suitable for all about the sculptural issues of space, line, stone mallets and chisels. IAN GREGORY in clay – a sculpture course Please see page 35 for further information. matter, weight and surface treatment. April 3–8 JO SWEETING March 20–24 PETER PARKINSON PAULA HAUGHNEY AND 5D1834 | £435 | NEW | 4D1793 | £396 | NEW PETER PARKINSON Suitable for all Advanced hollow bronze casting Suitable for all Birds are a fascinating subject for Sculptural carving in wood February 6–13 Learn to capture the dynamics of a moving Making luminous willow sculptures translation into stone – their form, the May 20–23 7D1710 | £786 | NEW animal using ‘chevant’, a modelling material April 10–13 Large clay sculptures – a personal texture of their feathers and freeze framing LW1918 | £280 Intermediate/Advanced similar in properties to plasticine. Processes 3D1845 | £295 response a pose. The tutor gives a presentation of Beginners Create your own hollow cast bronze covered include armature building, animal Suitable for all May 30–June 3 how artists and other cultures depict this Please see page 61 for further information. sculpture on this intensive course as you anatomy, modelling tools, equipment and Working with willow and tissue paper, 4D1937 | £375 subject as inspiration and then you make a PETER CLOTHIER experience all the processes involved. Bring finishing techniques. Bring photographic learn simple and efficient methods for Suitable for all model from clay or plasticine. After carving a small sculpture or object to cast (to fit in reference to work on either a head or whole constructing your own sculptures for Enlargement of small maquettes through a small soapstone bird, you choose a larger a box 30 x 20 x 20cms with 3cm gap around figure. parties after dark and explore various use of a supporting frame can lose the piece of stone to work on from soft to the edges). Make a silicone rubber mould IAN EDWARDS methods for illuminating and decorating immediacy of original work and hinder hard and in a variety of colours, aiming to and then make a wax slush cast model that them. You learn how to manipulate, cut the sculptor’s freedom. Learn a little- complete a piece by the end of the course. can then be used for the casting process. and bind the willow and then cover with a known clay-working technique that allows PAULA HAUGHNEY You obtain a good grounding in the bronze- Patinating and colouring non-ferrous transparent film of tissue. a freer approach. Working in an abstract casting processes and after removing metals ELEANOR GLOVER way, figurative or other compositions may castings you chase, patinate, polish and April 3–7 emerge as you complete two sculptures of finish your work. 4D1830 | £440 | NEW 30 and 60 cm ready for firing. SHANE WHITEHEAD Suitable for all Sculpture using paper and wire – JON EDGAR Please see page 40 for further information. personal odysseys JON PRIVETT April 17–21 Portrait heads in terracotta – a visual 4D1860 | £366 STONE CARVING STUDY DAYS approach Suitable for all Regular study days in stone carving with February 17–20 Take an exciting journey through the Jon Edgar take place from April to October LW1727 | £310 | amazing possibilities of wire and papier- in the Sculpture Courtyard which is part of Suitable for all mâché as you create your own individual the Sussex Barn complex. These one-day Create a life-sized portrait head and aim sculpture. Working directly with these courses are suitable for makers of all levels. to capture the sitter’s essence. Sensitive approachable and low-cost media, you draw Please contact the Admissions Office for observation will inform your clay modelling your three-dimensional armature with wire, dates and further details (0844 4994408). n es through a whole day with each of two then weave and mould the form with papier- models being used. You then hollow out mâché. You choose colours and textures your second portrait head for firing and of recycled papers and other materials to arrett-da
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50 Fees listed for each course are non-residential – please see page 71 for accommodation costs | Short Courses November 2010–May 2011 0844 4994408 | [email protected] | on-line booking at www.westdean.org.uk 51 Tutors TEXTILES TEXTILES SCULPTURE Embroidery, sewing and stitch 52–53 Embroidery, sewing and stitch 52–53 Painting, printing and dyeing 54 Painting, printing and dyeing 54 Constructed textile techniques 55–57 Constructed textile techniques 55–57 s pp Phi n Marily
JON BARRETT–DANES trained at Bristol and IAN MCKAY graduated in 3D design from Embroidery, sewing and stitch Hot textiles – exploring layers, colour World beads – exploring beadwork Pattern cutting – design and make has followed a family tradition spanning six Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College and and stitch traditions and techniques a top generations of working with clay. He specialises specialises in mechanical toys. Recent commissions Contemporary patchwork and January 17–21 February 25–27 March 22–25 in modelling animals, with a concern for form and include a large piece for Hove Museum. free-form piecing 4D1673 | £359 | NEW WE1742 | £186 | NEW 3D1798 | £275 profile also found in his thrown work. November 12–15 Suitable for all Suitable for all Intermediate LW1588 | £274 | NEW Play with new ideas on this experimental Study the traditional beading techniques Learn the basics of pattern construction, ROBERT RACE, an established maker of automata Suitable for all course. Create amazing textured surfaces of South Africa, Russia and Alaska and adaptation and dart manipulation. You LUCY CASSON is renowned for her quirky and simple wooden toys, is an active member of Explore inspirational contemporary using a range of heat processes including explore and experiment with the full range first produce a basic bodice block and toile metal sculptures using recycled tin. She exhibits the British Toymakers Guild. He exhibits his work patchwork techniques using free cut heat guns and soldering irons. Colour and of designs and techniques offered by their based on your own body measurements, worldwide and has recently completed several widely. methods, strip piecing and block stitch into these with hand or machine distinctive styles. then draft a flat pattern and construct a commissions for hospitals. construction, and produce a set of samples stitching. Explore the latest new materials STEPHNEY HORNBLOW top from your own individual design. Some MATTHEW READ is Programme Leader for or a small project. Taking your inspiration and revisit old ones as you create a portfolio sewing experience is essential. (To make JON EDGAR trained at The Frink School and Conservation of Clocks at West Dean. He is an from colour and form in nature, enjoy the of working and more considered stitched a truly unique garment, you may like to has work in collections in the UK and abroad. experienced horologist, both conserving and freedom and creative potential of this samples for future use. Contemporary quiltmaking – attend Carole Waller’s ‘Translucency and His work includes closely-observed terracotta making. experimental way of working. KIM THITTICHAI designing and sampling colour on cloth’ course, March 18–22, see portraits and organic, abstract, direct carvings. JANICE GUNNER February 28–March 4 page 54.) 4D1752 | £354 | NEW MARIA PULLEY ISOBEL SMITH trained in graphic design, fine art Stitched and printed textiles – Intermediate/Advanced IAN EDWARDS is an expert in many fields of and sculpture before her quest to animate the Beadwork patchwork bracelets inspired by the home Explore the process of dreaming up ideas, woodcarving. He also sculpts figures and animals inanimate led to setting up Gravy Boat Puppets November 26–28 January 24–27 creating designs and developing a visual Architectural textures in machine in clay to be cast in bronze. He teaches at in 2007. Her puppets perform together for both WE1610 | £186 | NEW 3D1680 | £297 | language as you learn a whole set of skills stitched textiles Somerset College of Art. adults and children. Beginners Beginners/Intermediate you can apply to many textile projects. April 17–20 Enjoy experimenting and playing with Explore ways of merging print, stitch and Working through these stages in drawing 3D1858 | £274 DAVID FARRER studied printmaking at the JO SWEETING is a sculptor and letter carver colour as you create beadwork jewellery appliqué to create charming but functional and paper collage, you then develop your Suitable for all University of Sunderland, before becoming a and is part of the Skelton Workshops group with free-form techniques and learn to textiles based on memories of home or individual ideas using fabric sampling with Create stitched pictures inspired by sculptor. He is assisted by CORDELIA JOHN, an in Ditchling. She trained in Fine Art at Leeds & make patterns, textures, shapes, frills, other family narratives. Develop skills in machine or hand stitching. architecture. Working from images of experienced teacher. Sheffield and now teaches, exhibits and works to flowers and fastenings and embellishments. simple screen-printing, machine and hand PAULINE BURBIDGE buildings, develop designs as you piece, commission. MARILYN PHIPPS embroidery techniques, colour mixing and patch and layer fabrics and then work composition, as you develop you own ideas into them with a combination of machine PAULA HAUGHNEY is a full-time sculptor based for a cushion cover or tea cosy. Composing and making pictures with embroidery, hot air tools and textured in London. She recently carved spandrelles for SHANE WHITEHEAD manages a bronze foundry Beadwork – three-dimensional MAXINE SUTTON fabrics and found objects paint effects. Bromley Hall, a Tudor lodge, and has had a solo in Dorset whilst sculpting his own work in bronze. flowers March 4–7 WENDY DOLAN exhibition at Uppark House in West Sussex. He originally worked in graphic design where his December 6–9 LW1760 | £274 | interest in ornament was fostered. 3D1632 | £274 Beginners’ quilt making Suitable for all SIMON KEELEY trained as a stonemason and in Beginners/Intermediate February 14–17 Explore ways of combining ideas, materials Hand embroidery – creative 2003 completed an Art in Architecture MA. He has Learn about beadwork stitches as you create 3D1725 | £274 | NEW and techniques intuitively on this course. goldwork won many prestigious commissions and has work in 3D beaded flower forms on this course. You Beginners You work directly with fabrics and found May 12–15 Westminster Abbey. can explore different techniques, such as Create a quilt from beginning to end. All the objects to piece together a composition 3D1900 | £274 square or peyote stitches and herringbone essential patchwork and quilting techniques using simple hand-sewing and shape- Beginners/Intermediate weave, or focus on one to complete a piece are introduced – from how to cut the fabric cutting methods. Traditional 3D goldwork methods for of jewellery using beaded findings. to machine piecing and quilting, and hand JANET BOLTON transferring designs, padding and stitching LIZ THORNTON sewing the binding – and you’ll leave with a techniques with metal threads and small quilt to be proud of. chipwork are taught. Beginners work a JANET CLARE prepared design; those with experience can The little black dress – dressmaking work an alternative pattern of their choice. skills All should progress to mount a finished December 10–13 Hand embroidery – crewel work piece. LW1637 | £274 | NEW techniques inspired by the sea SHELLEY COX Intermediate February 21–25 Learn how to tailor a classic ‘shift- 4D1739 | £354 | NEW style’ dress pattern to fit and achieve Beginners/Intermediate Creative quilting that elusive professional finish to your Learn and experiment with the essential May 27–29 home dressmaking. Armed with your surface stitches of crewel work – a tactile WE1928 | £186 measurements, you learn to adapt a pattern and hard wearing embroidery suitable Suitable for all to cut and sew a calico toile, before making for box lids, cushion covers, bags or Explore the relationship between colour, up a finished dress utilising a few fashion pictures. Working from your own imagery line and shape through paper collage, then trade short-cuts to speed up the process. of sea themes or creatures, with coloured develop your designs into fabric and stitch SOPHIE ENGLISH embroidery wools on linen twill fabric, using contemporary patchwork and quilting explore many textural patterns and stitches. techniques. Basic sewing skills are helpful. SHELLEY COX SUSAN CHAPMAN
52 Fees listed for each course are non-residential – please see page 71 for accommodation costs | Short Courses November 2010–May 2011 0844 4994408 | [email protected] | on-line booking at www.westdean.org.uk 53 TEXTILES TEXTILES Embroidery, sewing and stitch 52–53 Painting, printing and dyeing 54 n Constructed textile techniques 55–57 utto S e e n A rkell Maxi Julie
Painting, printing and dyeing Painted lettering on pebbles and Fabric transformations – heat Constructed textile Creative rag rug making with dyeing Tapestry weaving workshop textiles – an introduction transfer printing techniques November 5–8 January 28–30 Personal journeys – sourcing direct March 11–13 May 13–15 LW1564 | £274 WE1685 | £186 | inspiration for textiles WE1772 | £186 | NEW WE1901 | £202 | Colour and scale in felt making Suitable for all Intermediate December 17–20 Beginners/Intermediate Suitable for all October 31–November 5 Equip yourself with the skills necessary to For those with some basic tapestry weaving LW1648 | £280 | Please see page 23 for further information. Transform synthetic or natural fabrics 5D1556 | £435 | NEW make a rag rug from discarded textiles and experience, this is a chance to develop Suitable for all SUSAN HUFTON and charity shop finds into glorious new Intermediate/Advanced clothing. On this course learn to design, your technical weaving ability. Create Explore ways of creating and exploiting your creations using a printing technique which Explore the proportion of colour, both in mark out and dye fabric for making a samples as you practise shaping techniques journals and sketchbooks as a starting point enables dyes printed and painted on paper the mixing of wool tops and for composition hooked rug. It is advisable to bring your such as lines, outlining, circles, lettering, for mixed-media and textile-based projects Translucency and colour on cloth – to be transferred directly onto a textile ideas. You are encouraged to work with own rags, and, if appropriate, to prepare dovetailing and hachures. or 3D designs. Using unconventional painting and screenprinting surface. combinations of fabrics, thread and other colour swatches to work from. CARON PENNEY drawing techniques, collage and March 18–22 CAROLE WALLER fibres within the surface of wool to make JULIA BURROWES photography, capture and develop ideas 4D1790 | £380 | unusual surfaces, while considering tone, from your immediate environment. Suitable for all texture and colour in a series of pre-felts. Hand knitting vintage-style CAS HOLMES Explore the properties of dyes and pigments Fabric collage and monoprinting with Guidance is then given in how to scale up a Precious reticules and purses – silk, January 30–February 2 on silks and other fabrics, and experiment dyes inspired by the landscape design to produce a large wall felt. silver and stitch 3D1691 | £274 | NEW with painting and screenprinting methods May 16–19 JEANETTE APPLETON November 7–10 Intermediate/Advanced Creative use of Photoshop for makers introduced by the tutor. Use these relatively 3D1910 | £279 | NEW 3D1569 | £295 | NEW Find out how to adapt vintage knitting and artists easy techniques to create beautiful designs Suitable for all Suitable for all patterns to fit modern proportions and January 14–17 on cloth for clothes (see Maria Pulley’s Inspired by the West Dean landscape, Felt making – progressing skills Create your own decorative silk purse or contemporary style yarns and develop LW1670 | £300 course on page 53 which follows on March create a range of printed fabrics and papers and ideas reticule literally from start to finish on this your knitting skills. Start with the basics of Beginners/Intermediate 22–25 if this interests you), wall-pieces or to combine in heat-bonded, collaged November 5–7 exciting course. You learn the techniques pattern reading then make tension swatches Please see page 44 for further information. any other project. compositions on paper and canvas. WE1558 | £186 | for silver soldering a simple metal frame and samples trying out various yarns and ALISON MILNER CAROLE WALLER Use exciting yet simple monoprinting Intermediate/Advanced (no previous experience required), for needle sizes until the adapted pattern is techniques and pigment dyes to explore Combine felt making and collage constructing or forming 3D shapes in silk, ready to knit. mark making and produce a series of small- techniques to inspire new work and for making cord handles and ties, and lastly CLAIRE MONTGOMERIE Found objects and materials in Resist-dyed silk scarves – developing scale experimental collages. extend your personal textile practice both for embellishing and embroidering your experimental textiles colour and pattern JO BUDD in making felt and in exploring ideas for own individual article. February 20–25 March 25–28 fashion, interior and gallery. EMILY JO GIBBS Traditional upholstery techniques 5D1735 | £448 | NEW LW1807 | £289 | NEW JEANETTE APPLETON February 6–11 Suitable for all Beginners/Intermediate Exuberant silk painting 5D1708 | £435 Let found objects stimulate your creativity. First explore colour, texture and proportion May 20–22 Tapestry weaving for beginners Beginners/Intermediate Explore ways of altering them through a on paper, taking West Dean Gardens as WE1911 | £199 | NEW December 10–12 Please see page 59 for further information. variety of experimental paint, mark making inspiration for your design. Practise resist Suitable for all WE1633 | £191 | RICHARD RICARDO and construction techniques. Learn to techniques on silk samples before going Revel in the freedom of working with Beginners combine unusual materials, to investigate on to develop and complete your shawl or liquid line and colour on fluid silk fabric. Experience and understand the medium printing and dyeing techniques, and to use scarf. The finishing process is also covered Experiment with discharge and wax resist of tapestry weaving by visiting West Dean Creatures and stories in papier- hand and machine stitch responsively as a on this carefully structured course. techniques for stunning results and create Tapestry Studio, then making samples as mâché, knitting and stitch mark or line. The experimental pieces you ISABELLA WHITWORTH glorious lengths for scarves, hangings or you learn techniques for shaping, shading, February 13–16 produce may become the starting point garments. weaving diagonals and creating letters. 3D1722 | £274 for new 2D or 3D work in mixed media, JANE VENABLES CARON PENNEY Intermediate/Advanced textiles, collage or books. Creative use of Photoshop for surface Using paper pulp and cardboard, learn to CAS HOLMES decoration and designs construct imaginative creatures and objects, April 12–15 Millinery – embossed and wired such as boxes, houses, furniture or trees, 3D1847 | £286 flower headpieces and to enhance and decorate them with Batik for creative beginners Intermediate January 24–27 embroidery or knitting if you wish. The March 4–6 Please see page 45 for further information. 3D1681 | £289 | NEW tutor demonstrates her own wide-ranging WE1754 | £195 | ALISON MILNER Suitable for all techniques and gives individual instruction. Beginners Discover original ways of working with JULIE ARKELL Surprise yourself with the versatility and crin and silk to create a floral headpiece or colourfulness of the wax resist-dyed process corsage. Learn about wiring and embossing on textiles. Working through four projects, silk petals, colouring silk and sinamay you explore key techniques and discover ‘feathers’ and how to work with crin to their expressive potential. create delicate effects. These inspiring NOEL DYRENFORTH techniques are combined using traditional MAKE A GIFT DAYS millinery methods as you complete a piece. For more information BRIDGET BAILEY about Make a Gift Days throughout November
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Exploring colour through felt making Rag rugs and decorative patch mats L March 11–13 Tapestry weaving – the art of May 2–5 HEATHER BELCHER is a textile artist working in felt. She recently took part in the ‘Pairings’ project WE1770 | £186 | translation 3D1885 | £274 | NEW Felt making – bags and sculptural Beginners/Intermediate Embroidery techniques through April 1–3 Beginners/Intermediate containers with Manchester Metropolitan University, and Discover the qualities of colour particular felt making WE1821 | £191 | Choose to learn techniques to make either May 13–15 exhibited her work with The Sixty Two Group of to felt as you learn to mix merino ‘tops’ by March 13–18 Intermediate/Advanced traditional hooky or proddy rag rugs, WE1902 | £186 | NEW | Textile Artists. hand, then work with carding, layering and 5D1781 | £435 | NEW Examine the process of translating an art or a flat patched mat, from reclaimed or Intermediate/Advanced bonding processes to produce an exciting Suitable for all work into woven tapestry and the criteria scrap fabrics. Patch mats are a charming Explore 3D felting techniques, from which a JANET BOLTON is a designer-maker who range of tints and tones. Discover the creative potential of simulating for selecting or designing an image, as alternative to the textured rag rugs, made range of hollow and moulded forms can be often works to commission. She has work in the JEANETTE APPLETON various embroidery techniques through the you consider scale, technical aspects and from cut fabric shapes and decorative made without stitching or cutting. You are permanent collections of the Crafts Council, the felt making process. Quilted and embossed blending and shading techniques. stitches applied to a woollen base, which encouraged to develop a creative approach British Council and the Embroiderers’ Guild. felted surfaces which hint at traditional PHILIP SANDERSON develop your creative eye and sense of to harnessing its physical properties and Bobbin lacemaking embroidery, hand and machine stitch colour placement. sculptural potential to make samples and March 11–13 with varying threads to alter shrinking DEBBIE SINISKA innovative contemporary accessories. JO BUDD is internationally known for her large- WE1773 | £186 processes, appliqué and patchwork with Traditional English leatherwork – HEATHER BELCHER scale painterly textiles. With an exhibiting career Suitable for all felt and fabric can all be combined and basic skills of thirty years, her work featured recently in the Try out lacemaking without purchasing embellished to make ideas for one-off April 1–4 V&A’s ‘Quilt’ exhibition. any equipment if you are a beginner, or textiles, interior or fashion items. LW1825 | £274 | NEW work on your chosen patterns – including JEANETTE APPLETON Beginners PAULINE BURBIDGE trained in textiles at Central Bucks Point, Torchon or Bedfordshire lace Learn about leather, leather-working hand St Martins College and has an international – to develop skills if you have lacemaking tools and the techniques for using them reputation for her stunning quilts. Her work is in experience. Making linen tassels and cords – as you work on introductory projects in major collections in the UK and USA. JAN TREGIDGO passementerie skills naturally tanned leather which include a March 25–27 braided wristband, a hand-stitched belt and JULIA BURROWES studied painting at the Slade WE1802 | £186 a small belt pouch or shoulder bag. Millinery – feather and flower Beginners/Intermediate JOHN HAGGER School of Fine Art. She makes rag rugs and headpieces Linen is a crisp yarn which hangs well, wallhangings and is an exhibiting member of the March 13–16 making it suitable for a large tassel for Sixty Two Group of Textile Artists. 3D1778 | £274 | NEW interiors and soft furnishings. This Hand knitting – exploring bias, Suitable for all workshop covers all the traditional diagonal and modular stitches SARAH CANT is a milliner, textile artist and Master the techniques for dyeing, shaping techniques of tassel making, including April 15–18 theatrical milliner. Her striking hats are often and assembling feathers and flowers and rolling a mould, making a wired cut-skirt, LW1854 | £274 | NEW featured in the fashion press and her work is make your own individual headpieces. attaching over-bullion decorations and Suitable for all exhibited at Origin, the London Craft Fair and in Either use these techniques separately or spinning cords. Transform your basic knitting skills by craft galleries. combine feathers and flowers in a single ANNA CRUTCHLEY exploring new techniques which enable more elaborate and striking piece. Develop you to create knitting ‘on the bias’ and other millinery projects at home with these modular or ‘domino’ knitting in which JACQUI CAREY studied woven textiles, and now skills! knitted patches are joined by knitting and specialises in making Japanese Kumihimo braids. SARAH CANT then knitted on. Play with stitches and scale She is the author of several books and won a as you produce samples or start your own QEST Craft Scholarship in 2005. projects. Visual storytelling ALISON ELLEN SUSAN CHAPMAN is a contemporary quilt artist and popular teacher. She combines dyed, For more information about our painted and printed fabrics in her quilts which are Winter School please see page 9 exhibited widely.
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Developing skills in furniture making Furniture painting – Scandinavian Woodturning for beginners Woodturning bowls – improving Woodturning bowls Wood related courses – a side table project and French country styles January 9–14 technique April 22–25 March 6–11 May 23–27 5D1661 | £467 March 11–13 LW1865 | £312 An introduction to picture framing 5D1765 | £443 4D1923 | £435 Beginners WE1769 | £212 Intermediate November 29–December 2 Beginners Beginners/Intermediate Develop your skills and learn to make Intermediate First learn the techniques for turning a small 3D1618 | £274 Learn hand skills which are sustainable Explore the decorative techniques and both spindle-turned and face-plate work Enhance your bowl turning skills as you bowl then study timbers, tool sharpening Beginners in a home workshop, to a high degree traditional forms used in the popular with confidence on this course. With sole explore the versatility of the bowl gouge. and the specialist methods of holding the Learn the basic skills necessary to mount of proficiency and accuracy, as you work Scandinavian, Gustavian and French use of your lathe, you learn techniques by Good bowl design and techniques for wood on the lathe, including the use of face and frame works of art to a high standard, through each stage in the construction country styles and work with modern media working through a series of graded projects texturing, colouring and finishing are also plates and various chucks. From this basis using good quality materials and a of a specially designed side table. Using to create your own surface decoration for including a tool handle, an egg, a lidded covered on this hands-on course. you can move on confidently to turn a full- minimum of equipment at each stage so College tools, if you don’t already have your furniture. Techniques include freehand box and various bowls. The programme COLIN SIMPSON size fruit or salad bowl. that you can work independently in future. own, you are taught the principles behind painting, stencilling, simple grisaille includes tuition on timber, tools, abrasives PETER CLOTHIER JOHN HILL sharpening and maintaining them. Other ornamentation, antiqued and distressed and finishes. Tools and equipment are topics include understanding wood grain, finishes and gilding effects. You can expect provided. Woodturning – a focus on tool setting out and cutting mortise and tenon to complete samples and a small project. PETER CLOTHIER sharpening and bowls Fine-turned boxes in wood Traditional oil gilding joints and oil finishing. This course is aimed JO MABBUTT March 22–25 May 20–23 March 4–6 at anyone wishing to acquire the skills to 3D1797 | £274 LW1916 | £274 WE1757 | £194 work with hardwoods, and as a stepping- Small-scale turning – wood, metal, Intermediate Intermediate/Advanced Beginners stone to making your own furniture. Developing skills for furniture acrylic and other materials Learn the invaluable skills of tool Learn how to turn small, finely decorated Explore the ancient art of applying precious TOM KEALY making – a tall stool project January 28–30 sharpening and work with your own well- wooden boxes on a lathe, including the metal leaf onto a variety of surfaces, such May 27–30 WE1682 | £186 | sharpened gouges and scrapers to turn a hand chasing of threads. Techniques to as leather, glass, metal, wood or paper. You 3D1829 | £315 | NEW Beginners bowl on the lathe. You are also shown the adorn these exquisite boxes with hand and develop and practise oil gilding skills on Taking care of your furniture Beginners/Intermediate Learn lathe turning skills for small-scale tutor’s own method of bowl turning so that lathe carving are also covered. Previous samples, surfaces or simple objects of your March 18–20 Make a tall stool in solid hardwood while work suitable for jewellery, decorative you can benefit from using the ‘ground woodturning experience is essential. choice. WE1785 | £186 you learn to use a range of conventional turnings on furniture, pattern and model back’ gouge. JOHN BERKELEY JUDY WETHERALL Beginners/Intermediate hand woodworking tools and jointing making and other craft disciplines. All DAVE REGESTER Learn to analyse your piece of furniture processes to complete this useful and turning essentials are covered as you and then, with the tutor’s support, apply handsome piece of furniture. Time to explore the materials of your choice. Sculptural carving in wood Lettercutting in wood techniques and materials to clean and practise cutting wedged mortise and tenon PETER CLOTHIER Improve your woodcarving May 20–23 March 13–17 improve old finishes, and consolidate and joints by hand from scrap material, develops March 25–27 LW1918 | £280 | 4D1779 | £354 strengthen the object. Minor repairs can accuracy and speed, before cutting these WE1799 | £186 Beginners Suitable for all also be carried out. and other components to construct the Woodcarving for beginners Intermediate/Advanced Work in seasoned or green timber, and Please see page 24 for further information. NORBERT GUTOWSKI stool. February 18–20 Enhance your technical and creative learn to use a variety of tools on this course. MARTIN WENHAM PETER KUH WE1730 | £194 | woodcarving skills while working on a Working from nature and the imagination, Beginners project of your own choice, either new or you first make a plasticine maquette Making a bow-back Windsor chair Learn about timber and the use of hand continued, taking advantage of the tutor’s (model), then carve your sculpture in wood. Picture framing – all levels May 15–20 Woodcarving and turning tools, then practise some carving exercises expertise in relief carving, carving in the PETER CLOTHIER May 22–26 5D1908 | £435 to develop your hand skills before you round and letter carving. You can also use 4D1920 | £354 Beginners/Intermediate Starting out in woodturning embark on a relief-carving project based on this opportunity to trouble-shoot your Suitable for all Construct an elegant single-bow Windsor December 13–16 natural forms. carving conundrums and inspire your Experience and practise all aspects of the chair and learn about the particular 3D1643 | £287 | TED VINCENT future work. picture framer’s craft to a high standard methods and materials used in this flexible Beginners CHRIS PYE in this focused workshop. Using basic chair-making process. Working with ash, Experience spindle and bowl turning and equipment, you learn techniques for you use green woodworking techniques learn techniques for making a bowl, goblet Introducing woodturning – creative mount cutting, mitre cutting and involving traditional hand tools for most shape and lidded box, following instruction bowls, spindles and boxes Relief carving in wood joining mouldings, choosing colour and
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Traditional gilding techniques – a Violins, violas or cellos – starting or Musical Instrument Making JOHN BERKELEY is a wood turner and puzzle NORBERT GUTOWSKI is a specialist in RICHARD RICARDO runs a fine art upholstery creative workshop finishing instruments April 29–May 8 maker who previously worked as a restorer of traditional woodworking and decorative finishes business in Oxfordshire. He works in both modern May 27–30 4D1652 MI1879 – MI1882 | £777 (incl all dinners) metal antiques. His speciality boxes are featured and is a furniture tutor for West Dean’s full-time and antique styles, advising on and organising LW1931 | £281 Intermediate/Advanced Intermediate/Advanced in his book All Screwed Up, published in 2004. programmes in Furniture Conservation. specialist repair work. Intermediate/Advanced GEOFF BOWERS Working in one of four small groups, with Experiment creatively with gilding on an experienced maker as your tutor, you DAVID BARRON is a member of the Sussex JOHN HILL is a picture framer and experienced PHIL SHIPLEY is a designer and maker of a variety projects that develop your own personal select an instrument from the range offered Guild and makes furniture to commission. He teacher. He has worked as a framer in the UK and of country chair styles. He is a regular exhibitor interests. You learn further professional Traditional stringed and keyboard according to your interests. Previous gilding techniques – some traditional, some instruments – starting or finishing woodworking experience is necessary. also contributes articles to Furniture and Cabinet Bermuda, and has a keen interest in conservation. at Westonbirt’s ‘Festival of the Tree’ and is an unorthodox – on this workshop, designed 4D1653 Instruction is given in the principles of Making magazine, alongside selling his specialist experienced tutor in chair making for all abilities. for those who already have a working Suitable for all making, assembling and finishing the hand tools. TOM KEALY studied at Parnham College. He knowledge of traditional gilding methods. ANDY BUTTERWORTH instrument, allowing you to start a new makes commissioned furniture to his own designs COLIN SIMPSON is a professional woodturner JUDY WETHERALL project or complete one already in progress. PETER BARTON studied stringed instrument and for other eminent designers, alongside and regularly writes articles on the subject for On booking, we ask you to specify which making on West Dean’s full-time Making Stringed teaching in the UK and USA. Woodturning Magazine. His turned bowls are sold Renaissance and baroque viols – instrument you wish to work on. The tutor Instruments Diploma programme. In 1986 he set up mainly in National Trust’s shops. Musical instrument making starting or finishing instruments will then contact you to discuss this choice his own workshop as a professional luthier, making PETER KUH, a designer-craftsman, has many years’ 4D1654 and the materials required. Please note classical and acoustic guitars. experience teaching furniture making, particularly TED VINCENT trained at the RCA. He is a senior MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKING Suitable for all some instruments take more than nine days at Rycotewood College. His work is featured in lecturer in the School of Design at Kingston – STARTING OR CONTINUING RENATE FINK to complete. PROJECTS GEOFF BOWERS is an experienced teacher who several books on cabinetmaking. University. His sculptural woodcarvings are January 5–9 Classical or steel strung acoustic studied at the Newark School of Violin Making. regularly exhibited both here and in the USA. 4D1651 – 4D1654 | £359 Musical instrument making for guitars He is now a maker and repairer of violins, violas JO MABBUTT specialises in experimental surface Here is the opportunity to either start beginners MI1879 and cellos. decoration. She works on a variety of surfaces JUDY WETHERALL, lecturer, practitioner and making a new instrument for the annual April 29–May 8 PETER BARTON from paper to textiles to glass and is developing conservator in gilding and decorative arts, trained nine-day course, or to continue one already MI1878 | £777 (incl all dinners) ANDY BUTTERWORTH is a restorer of antique ranges of gilded jewellery and interior at Brighton University and the City and Guilds of begun. If you are starting a new instrument Beginners horological and musical instruments. He also accessories. London Art School. or are new to these courses, please contact Complete beginners can experience the Traditional stringed and keyboard specialises in making percussion, plucked us before booking. Instruments should be satisfaction of making a musical instrument instruments instruments and hurdygurdies. JAMES MURSELL changed career in the 1990s to TOBY WINTERINGHAM designs and makes selected according to your woodworking from scratch. Select one instrument from MI1880 pursue his passion for Windsor chair making. He contemporary furniture from his own Norfolk- experience and interests. The tutor will the following: GEOFF BOWERS AND MARK CASS has worked with wood for over 25 makes chairs to commission, writes on the subject based company, specialising in marquetry and fine contact you to discuss this choice and the Plucked instruments – harp, mandolin, ANDY BUTTERWORTH materials required. mandola or ukulele. years – as an antique furniture restorer, and a and makes specialist chair making tools. cabinetwork for public and private clients. Bowed instruments – medieval bowed carpenter, manufacturing high-end kitchens and Guitars – starting or finishing rebec or renaissance treble viol. Renaissance and baroque viols numerous commissions. He also teaches regularly CHRIS PYE is a member of the Master Carvers VIOLA ZIESSOW trained at the Newark School instruments These can usually be made over the nine MI1881 and writes for magazines. Association, has over 30 years experience as a of Violin Making, before setting up her own 4D1651 days – prior woodworking experience, RENATE FINK carver and is author of seven books. He teaches workshop in England in 1995. She is a former Suitable for all though not necessary, is an advantage. As PETER CLOTHIER works as a woodturner, carver and demonstrates in England and the USA. winner of the ‘Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris’ PETER BARTON places for each instrument are limited, and sculptor, having studied sculpture at the for a cello. please contact Rosemary Marley, Course Violins, violas and cellos City and Guilds of London Art School. His book DAVE REGESTER began turning as a full-time Organiser to discuss your instrument MI1882 Sculpting in Wood, was published in 2007. professional in 1974. He supplies his work to choice before making your booking. VIOLA ZIESSOW kitchenware shops and galleries. He teaches and PETER BARTON, GEOFF BOWERS, ANDY BUTTERWORTH AND RENATE FINK RENATE FINK is a graduate in Instrument writes on his craft and demonstrates worldwide. Technology from Guildhall University. She has been a full-time viol maker and violin restorer since 1996.
62 Fees listed for each course are non-residential – please see page 71 for accommodation costs | Short Courses November 2010–May 2011 0844 4994408 | [email protected] | on-line booking at www.westdean.org.uk 63 Chronological list of courses
The Loyal Lobster Level of experience needed for each course Beg: Beginners Int: Intermediate Adv: Advanced All: Suitable for all
OCT 31–NOV 4 silversmithing – raising a bowl ALL 39 Paper marbling and simple bookbinding BEG/INT 22 Wild and free watercolours BEG/INT 14 s
’ e OCT 31–NOV 5 Felt making – colour and scale INT/ADV 55 NOV 27 winter warmers – a food course BEG 28 JAN 21 Marmalade masterclass BEG 29
g ard Colour harmony – oil painting INT/ADV 12 NOV 28–DEC 2 Painting – dynamics of INT/ADV 13 JAN 22 training trees and shrubs INT/ADV 30
lle NOV 5–7 Felt making INT/ADV 55 the imagination JAN 23–26 sculptural willow insects BEG/INT 21 ty c o l General silversmithing ALL 39 NOV 28–DEC 3 Making jewellery in silver ALL 37 JAN 23–27 illustration with watercolours INT/ADV 14 Making glass beads BEG 33 NOV 29–DEC 2 Picture framing BEG 61 Ceramic sculpture, using paper-clay ALL 47 oya an c
l e Sumi-e – Japanese ink painting ALL 12 DEC 3 Festive flowers workshop BEG/INT 30 JAN 24–27 screenprinting transfers for enamelling INT/ADV 36 DEC 3–5 silversmithing BEG 39 t d Understanding your DSLR camera BEG 44 Stitched and printed textiles BEG/INT 53 An opera singing weekend INT/ADV 42 Pottery – throwing and turning ALL 47 Millinery – wired flower headpieces ALL 55 wes Sign up for West Dean’s Lobster Loyalty Card. NOV 5–8 creative rag rug making ALL 55 Drawing for beginners BEg 11 JAN 28–30 small-scale turning – various materials BEG 60 Drawing – traditional and experimental BEG/INT 10 Calligraphic capitals ALL 23 Relief printmaking BEG 18 For every full £100 spent on a short course at West Dean you’ll get a stamp. Once you’ve NOV 6 growing apples, pears, plums BEG/INT 30 Creative digital imaging INT 44 Kiln-formed glass BEG 33 collected ten stamps, you’re entitled to £100 off your next course. Full details on the scheme, and cherries DEC 3–6 Basketry – colour and pattern ALL 21 Tapestry weaving INT 55 including terms and conditions, will be sent to you with your enrolment pack. Organic gardening BEG/INT 30 DEC 4 Festive flowers workshop BEG/INT 30 Animated drawing ALL 11 NOV 7 Japanese paper crafts – gift day ALL 6 DEC 5–8 Painting and drawing – composition ALL 13 Acrylics workshop BEG 14 NOV 7–10 reticules and purses – silk and silver ALL 55 DEC 5–10 repairing and caring for furniture BEG/INT 59 Beethoven’s music (music lectures) ALL 43 NOV 8 spool-knitted wire bracelet – gift day BEG 6 Silversmithing – constructing and raising ALL 39 Drawing – manipulating perspective ALL 11 NOV 9 enamelled pendant or decoration – a gift day BEG 6 DEC 6–9 Beadwork – flowers BEG/INT 52 JAN 28–31 Making jewellery – perspex and polypropylene ALL 37 Crochet a wire necklace – gift day BEG 6 DEC 6–10 Botanical painting – the winter garden ALL 10 JAN 30–FEB 2 hand knitting vintage-style INT/ADV 55 NOV 9–12 Mosaics with found materials ALL 34 DEC 10–12 tapestry weaving for beginners BEG 55 JAN 30–FEB 3 exploring colour with gouache ALL 14 NOV 10 enamelled silver earrings – a gift day BEG 6 Watercolour painting BEG 13 JAN 30–FEB 4 shaker chair making ALL 59 Make a 3D stitched brooch – a gift day BEG 6 Basic blacksmithing BEG 35 Painting – in response to the INT/ADV 14 NOV 11 christmas cards and other prints – a gift day BEG 7 Digital image manipulation BEG 44 Old Masters Become a Friend Keum Bo earrings – a gift day ALL 7 DEC 10–13 dressmaking skills INT 52 FEB 4 Beers for gastronomes and guzzlers – BEG 29 Make a ceramic plant container – a gift day ALL 7 Stained glass – colour, line and light BEG 33 a food course e all have a special relationship with Our founder, Edward James, realised the West Dean, with its distinctive character, Machine embroidered gifts – a gift day BEG 7 Making jewellery BEG 37 FEB 4–6 tool tuning techniques BEG/INT 59 Bookbinding – a sketchbook journal ALL 22 West Dean. Yours may be through a potential of West Dean in his vision of colourful history, stunning landscape and Make a ragwork cushion – a gift day BEG 7 Chinese brush painting – animals ALL 13 NOV 11–14 Miniature linocut ALL 17 DEC 11 Pottery – a practical glazing day ALL 47 Beginners’ silversmithing BEG/INT 40 creative course, a walk around the establishing “an educational foundation reputation for excellence, has a wonderful W NOV 12–14 impressed lettering in ceramic surfaces ALL 47 Edible gifts for Christmas BEG 29 Making glass beads BEG 33 gardens, visiting the gallery or exploring where creative talents can be discovered ambience and exudes the atmosphere of Mosaics BEG/INT 34 DEC 13–16 woodturning BEG 60 Basketry – looping and twining ALL 21 the estate. All speak of the wonder of West and developed, and where one can spread that special place we all desire. You are now Creating a novel INT/ADV 26 Exploring pastels ALL 13 Creative blacksmithing BEG 35 Dean and the magical atmosphere which culture through the teaching of crafts and invited to become part of its history, taking NOV 12–15 small stone carvings ALL 49 DEC 16–20 etching – an introduction BEG 17 Creative digital photography BEG 44 envelops you as you come through the the preservation of knowledge that might on a role of supporting the continuing work Expressive figure drawing INT/ADV 10 DEC 17–19 woodcut printmaking ALL 17 JS Bach – for harpsichord players INT/ADV 42 entrance gates or walk over the Downs. otherwise be destroyed or forgotten”. of the internationally renowned College Contemporary patchwork and ALL 52 Life drawing BEG/INT 11 FEB 4–7 Pottery – basic techniques BEG 47 and world class Gardens. You can do this free-form piecing DEC 17–20 inspiration for textiles ALL 54 Oil painting – still-life ALL 14 Botanical painting – autumn colours INT 10 FEB 5 Pruning the garden in winter and spring BEG/INT 31 by becoming a Friend. Enamelling on copper ALL 36 NOV 13 small-scale forging gift day BEG 7 Still-life painting using acrylics ALL 13 Managing water sustainably in the ALL 30 landscape (lecture) How to listen to music (lectures) ALL 5 JAN 5–9 Making guitars ALL 62 FEB 6–11 traditional upholstery techniques BEG/INT 59 TO Become a Friend… For an annual subscription How else can I get involved? NOV 15–19 simple automata ALL 49 Making violins, violas or cellos INT/ADV 62 Painting in egg tempera INT/ADV 14 you or your family will enjoy: Stop motion animation ALL 46 Making stringed and keyboard instruments ALL 62 FEB 6–13 hollow bronze casting INT/ADV 50 1. Complete an application form West Dean – The Edward James Narrative jewellery INT/ADV 37 Making renaissance and baroque viols ALL 62 FEB 7 a garden for all seasons ALL 31 Foundation is a charity which Make a puppet BEG/INT 49 Bookbinding techniques BEG/INT 22 2. Join at Student Reception, the FEB 7–10 Free drawing using rollers ALL 11 • Friends’ End of Year Tour of Studios Illustration – pictures and prose ALL 10 JAN 7–9 hand-built decorated teapots ALL 47 receives no ongoing funding from FEB 11–13 Portrait painting in oils INT/ADV 14 Gardens Shop or Craft Shop and Workshops Create your own pop-up book ALL 22 Bead threading and knotting ALL 37 the government. As a result we rely Photographs from your digital camera BEG 44 3. Download a form online at • Free entry to the Gardens and Make a shadow puppet theatre ALL 49 Viol consort music INT/ADV 42 increasingly on the generous financial Compelling story writing, 2 BEG/INT 26 www.westdean.org.uk/friends Arboretum during normal opening NOV 20 stir up Sunday – food course BEG 28 JAN 7–14 Painting – strength and adventure ALL 13 FEB 11–14 Making a jig for squaring shoulders INT/ADV 59 support from individuals, charitable NOV 21–24 Making a wooden hand plane INT/ADV 59 JAN 9–13 Painting techniques of the Masters INT/ADV 13 hours Simple automata ALL 49 4. Tel: 01243 818210 / 01243 811301 trusts and companies. You can extend Glass engraving ALL 33 JAN 9–14 woodturning for beginners BEG 60 • A pre-publication presentation of the Small stone carvings ALL 49 Fax: 01243 811342 your support in the following ways: Sculpting the head in clay ALL 50 Silversmithing – chasing and repoussé INT/ADV 40 Short Course Brochure (twice a year) FEB 12 chocolate – a food course (am) BEG 29 Email: [email protected] NOV 21–25 silversmithing INT/ADV 39 JAN 14–16 Making screenprints BEG 18 • Giving a Friends’ subscription as a Chocolate – a food course (pm) BEG 29 • Free entry to all Garden Events Abstract painting INT/ADV 12 Jewellery from wire and beads BEG 37 special gift FEB 13–16 Papier-mâché, knitting and stitch INT/ADV 55 • Free entry to talks programmed by NOV 22–26 digital SLR photography BEG 44 Wheel throwing and turning INT 47 £27.50 individual rate FEB 13–17 creating a botanical sketchbook ALL 10 the Centre for Aesthetics and Visual • Leaving a legacy NOV 24 hedges – planning, planting and maintenance BEG 30 Compelling story writing, 1 BEG/INT 26 (named individual) FEB 14–16 Make a hazel rose arch BEG/INT 31 Arts (CAVA) • Enquiring about other ways to give NOV 25–28 enamelling on precious metals INT/ADV 36 JAN 14–17 Baskets from willow ALL 21 FEB 14–17 Beginners’ quilt making BEG 53 • Becoming a volunteer Bookbinding for beginners BEG 22 Silversmithing – crimp raising and sinking INT/ADV 40 • Express Friends’ entry to Garden FEB 14–18 a knife-cut marquetry mirror ALL 59 £55 individual and guest rate NOV 26–28 glass fusing BEG 33 Portraits in watercolours ALL 13 Events FEB 17–20 Portrait heads in terracotta ALL 50 (named individual, Beadwork jewellery BEG 52 Creative use of Photoshop BEG/INT 44 • Invitations to Gallery Private Views Quirky creatures in clay ALL 47 transferable guest) Oil painting for beginners BEG 12 Dynamic still-life ALL 14 Painting doorways and windows in INT/ADV 14 • Participation in a special programme The English Scene (music lectures) ALL 43 JAN 17–20 Painting miniature portraits ALL 14 *There will be a charge for special Friends’ events mixed media of Friends’ events throughout the NOV 26–29 Making simple furniture BEG 59 JAN 17–21 textiles – layers, colour and stitch ALL 53 £60 family rate (2 adults and year* up to 4 dependent children • Becoming part of West Dean and or grandchildren under 16) knowing that your contribution will make a difference in keeping West About Edward James Dean alive
Edward James was a lifelong collector of art and a poet who In 1964 he created a charitable trust, the Edward James inherited the West Dean Estate in 1912 from his father. James Foundation through which he fulfilled his quest for preserving invested significant time and money in supporting artists, traditional crafts and skills and using them within the creation craftspeople, dancers and poets and his passion for the arts of art and objects, and in the conservation of our heritage. This brought him into contact with many leading artists of the time culminated with the opening of West Dean College in 1971 as a including Leonara Carrington, Remedios Varo, centre for education and training in conservation and in the Salvador Dalí and René Magritte. visual and applied arts.
64 Fees listed for each course are non-residential – please see page 71 for accommodation costs | Short Courses November 2010–May 2011 0844 4994408 | [email protected] | on-line booking at www.westdean.org.uk 65 Level of experience needed for each course Beg: Beginners Int: Intermediate Adv: Advanced All: Suitable for all If you pay in full online you will receive a 5% discount for courses in this brochure. FEB 18–20 woodcarving BEG 60 New jewellery from old ALL 38 Sculptural blacksmithing ALL 36 Life drawing ALL 11 Bookbinding – impressed leather techniques BEG 23 Digital photography – wild flowers and vistas INT 45 Creative calligraphy BEG/INT 23 Making linen tassels and cords BEG/INT 56 Explore jazz INT/ADV 42 FEB 18–21 introducing woodturning BEG 60 Exploring pastels ALL 15 APR 29–MAY 8 Musical instrument making BEG 62 Blacksmithing – hot-working metal ALL 35 Basic blacksmithing BEG 35 Making acoustic guitars INT/ADV 62 FEB 20–25 Booking information experimental textiles ALL 54 Digital image manipulation BEG 45 Stringed and keyboard instruments INT/ADV 62 Silversmithing – constructing and raising ALL 40 Making fused glass jewellery ALL 33 Renaissance and baroque viols INT/ADV 62 FEB 21–24 a drawing workshop BEG 11 MAR 25–28 resist-dyed silk scarves BEG/INT 54 Violins, violas and cellos INT/ADV 62 FEB 21–25 exploring colour in lino print ALL 18 MAR 27 the Life and Music of Lehar Lehár (lectures) ALL 5 APR 30 Planting design ALL 32 Hand embroidery – crewel work BEG/INT 53 MAR 27–30 Jewellery from beach finds and junk ALL 38 MAY 1–6 silversmithing BEG/INT 40 The course fees listed by each course gardens, 25 metres from the house; Catering FEB 21–27 Painting – for advanced painters ADV 15 Gilding and painting a miniature ALL 24 MAY 2–5 rag rugs and patch mats BEG/INT 57 are non-residential and include course the Auditorium, Forge and Sculpture The Dining Room is a self-service FEB 25–27 Basic woodworking skills BEG 59 MAR 27–31 kumihimo braids and beads ALL 56 MAY 2–6 Making automata ALL 49 Exploring beadwork traditions ALL 53 MAR 27–APR 1 relief carving in wood BEG 61 Painting – Fauvist colour INT/ADV 16 tuition, dinner on the first evening Courtyard are part of the Sussex Barn restaurant which provides a vegetarian FEB 25–28 rush weaving and plaiting ALL 21 Composition in painting INT/ADV 16 The spring landscape in oils ALL 16 (as most courses start early evening), complex approximately 8 minutes walk option at every service. If you have Jewellery – chain-making ALL 38 MAR 28–APR 1 Making coloured glass bowls INT/ADV 33 MAY 6–8 Non-traditional stone-setting INT/ADV 39 lunch, tea and coffee and the use of from the Main House. specific dietary concerns due to medical Small sculptures from recycled tin ALL 51 MAR 29–APR 1 creative ink drawing ALL 12 for jewellers all the College facilities, including the reasons these should be indicated on Exciting surfaces for painters ALL 15 Jewellery – CAD and rapid prototyping ALL 38 Digital colour photography BEG 45 computer suite and library as well as Pets, other than assistance dogs, your booking form if booking by post Digital video editing BEG/INT 46 APR 1–3 Monoprinting for painters ALL 18 Sketching the city ALL 12 access to West Dean’s award winning cannot be accommodated at the or in ‘dietary requirements’ if booking Blacksmithing – an introduction BEG 36 FEB 26 Food day – the gourmet’s garden ALL 28 Willow work for the garden BEG/INT 21 gardens. College. Dogs must not be left in online. If you would like to discuss FEB 28–MAR 3 dynamic life painting – watercolours INT/ADV 15 Jewellery for beginners BEG 38 Traditional African drumming ALL 43 FEB 28–MAR 4 stained glass with glass painting ALL 33 Wood engraving ALL 18 MAY 8–12 chinese painting – exotic flowers and birds ALL 17 vehicles in the College car park at your requirements please contact the Mokume Gane – Japanese metal working INT/ADV 40 Tapestry weaving INT/ADV 56 Creative photography BEG/INT 45 If booking accommodation please refer any time. Catering Department on 01243 818268. Lettercutting in stone and slate ALl 23 Mixed media painting INT 16 Creative acrylics BEG/INT 17 to the table on page 71 which outlines Please note we cannot cater for strict Quilts – designing and sampling INT/ADV 53 Control your digital SLR camera BEG/INT 45 MAY 9–12 woven willow and bark containers ALL 21 the fees. These include dinner and Materials and equipment vegans. MAR 3–6 leather fashion accessories ALL 56 Songs to the lute and guitar INT/ADV 42 Making and decorating glass beads INT 34 breakfast. Our workshops and studios are MAR 4–6 Batik for creative beginners BEG 54 APR 1–4 traditional English leatherwork BEG 56 MAY 9–13 Printmaking as illustration ALL 18 all well-equipped – art studios Important information MAY 12–15 enamelling on precious metals INT/ADV 37 Hand marbling BEG/INT 23 APR 2 Food day – a masterclass in taste and flavour ALL 28 Accommodation and accessibility have easels, drawing boards and Mobile phone reception for most Enamelling for beginners BEG 36 APR 3–6 animal forms in willow BEG/INT 21 Hand embroidery – goldwork BEG/INT 53 All bedrooms are equipped with tea portable equipment. Our other networks is limited both in and around Traditional oil gilding BEG 61 Polymer clay jewellery BEG/INT 38 MAY 13–15 heat transfer printing on fabric ALL 54 Mixed media images BEG/INT 15 APR 3–7 Patinating and colouring metals ALL 40 Felt making – bags and containers INT/ADV 57 and coffee making facilities. Rooms specialist workshops – metal, pottery, the College. A payphone is situated near Masterclasses for singers INT/ADV 42 APR 3–8 sculpting in clay ALL 51 Decorative lettering on glass INT/ADV 34 with shared bathroom facilities (limited woodworking – have appropriate tools the reception desk in the College. MAR 4–7 Making fabric pictures ALL 53 Portrait painting and drawing ALL 16 Surface texture in clay ALL 48 in number) all have wash basins. Most and equipment for many activities. Designing your own garden ALL 31 Painting still-life ALL 16 Creating a novel INT/ADV 26 rooms with private bath or shower have Smoking is not permitted in any College MAR 5 a conductor’s ear (afternoon lecture) ALL 5 Carving birds in stone ALL 50 MAY 13–16 Portrait painting – all media ALL 17 en-suite facilities but in some cases the In the course details, received in your building or in the courtyard eating area. MAR 6–9 enamels – layering gold and silver leaf INT 36 APR 4–8 Blacksmithing – sculpture from scrap ALL 35 Drawing and seeing BEG/INT 12 bathroom is adjacent to or opposite booking confirmation pack if booking MAY 15–20 Making a Windsor chair BEG/INT 60 MAR 6–10 glazing and firing for ceramics ALL 47 APR 8–10 illuminating alpines – botanical painting ALL 10 the bedroom. Superior rooms (limited by post, or downloaded by you from Support from the Edward James MAR 6–11 Making a side table BEG 60 Observational drawing BEG 12 Making jewellery in silver ALL 39 MAR 7–11 Mosaics – stone and smalti ALL 34 Mozart’s operas (lecture course) ALL 43 MAY 16–19 Monoprinting with dyes and collage ALL 54 in number), all with en-suite facilities, our website, you are given a detailed Foundation Ltd Digital SLR photography BEG/INT 45 APR 8–11 hand engraving on metal ALL 40 Digital video editing BEG/INT 46 are located in the Main House and the list of materials and equipment which Thanks to support from the Edward Painting with colour – the winter sea ALL 15 APR 8–12 Pottery – gravity-defying coil pots INT/ADV 48 MAY 19 Food day – farming today for ALL 28 Vicarage (a short walk from the Main are needed for each course. James Foundation Ltd, short course our food tomorrow MAR 11–13 woodturning bowls INT 61 Clock making – an introduction BEG 49 House). fees are subsidised. MAY 20–22 silk painting with exuberance ALL 54 Exploring colour through felt making BEG/INT 56 APR 9 Planting the shade garden ALL 32 On some courses, part, or occasionally Drawing and mark making ALL 12 Glass engraving for beginners BEG 33 APR 10 Planting the damp garden ALL 32 Stone carving in relief – plant forms BEG 50 The College (Main House) is a large all, of these costs are included in Equality of opportunity Painted lettering on pebbles and textiles BEG/INT 23 APR 10–13 luminous willow sculptures ALL 51 Digital cameras and Photoshop INT/ADV 45 historic building with several changes the fees. The course details also list As part of the Edward James Bobbin lacemaking ALL 56 APR 10–15 Bookbinding ALL 23 Recorder consort weekend INT 43 in floor level. Adaptations have been the materials/equipment that will be Foundation Ltd, West Dean College is Metalwork – outdoor sculptures ALL 35 APR 12–15 creative use of Photoshop INT 45 MAY 20–23 Fine-turned boxes in wood INT/ADV 61 Gardening – the organic kitchen garden BEG/INT 31 APR 15–17 general silversmithing ALL 40 made to enable those with disabilities stocked in our Craft Shop for your committed to equality of opportunity Jewellery – introducing stones INT/ADV 39 MAR 11–14 still-life painting INT/ADV 15 Painting – the vision of colour ALL 16 to attend courses. Please contact the course – it is often best to wait and for its staff and students. It values their Sculpture in wood BEG 61 Etched and pressed jewellery INT/ADV 38 Bead threading and knotting ALL 38 Admissions Office to discuss any access discuss requirements with the tutor diversity and strives to create a positive Calligraphy – italics ALL 24 MAR 12 Mozart – Early String Quartets ALL 43 Playing the guitar in a group ADV 42 or other concerns and indicate these on before purchasing specific items. and inclusive atmosphere based on MAY 22–26 Picture framing – all levels ALL 61 MAR 13–16 Millinery – feathers and flowers ALL 56 Guitar ensemble workshop INT 42 Painting in the landscape INT/ADV 17 your booking form if booking by post Any items that you need to bring respect for others in which people are MAR 13–17 lettercutting in wood ALL 24 APR 15–18 hand knitting – exploring certain stitches ALL 56 MAY 22–27 exploring colour ALL 17 or in ‘special requirements’ if booking (eg jam jars) are also listed separately. actively encouraged to reach their full MAR 13–18 woodblock printing ALL 18 APR 15–19 creative blacksmithing projects ALL 35 MAY 23–27 Painting furniture – Scandinavian BEG/INT 60 online. potential. Felt making – embroidery techniques ALL 56 APR 16 crûg Farm – plant hunting (lecture) ALL 30 and French styles MAR 14–18 towards abstraction – painting still-lifes INT/ADV 15 APR 17–20 Making glass beads BEG 34 Please remember that on practical Playing with precious metals ADV 39 MAR 17 Planting chalk, clay & coastal gardens BEG/INT 31 Architectural textures – stitched textiles ALL 53 There is one twin en-suite bedroom in courses you will often need to purchase Wood engraving ALL 19 MAR 17–20 Jewellery using resin ALL 38 APR 17–21 landscapes in lino and monotype ALL 18 the Main House adapted for wheelchair materials throughout the course MAY 26 an afternoon of tea BEG 29 MAR 18–20 taking care of your furniture BEG/INT 60 Sculpture using paper and wire ALL 51 users which is accessible by lift. to complete projects – eg silver on MAY 27–29 Pottery – wheel-made pots INT/ADV 48 Portrait drawing ALL 11 Silversmithing – anti-clastic raising INT/ADV 40 Creative quilting ALL 53 jewellery courses, paints etc. Drawing – comics and graphic novels ALL 11 APR 21–25 enamelling with small silkscreens ALL 37 MAY 27–30 Furniture making – a tall stool BEG/INT 60 The lift also gives access to some DSLR photography – studio lighting BEG 45 Pottery – hand building and throwing ALL 48 Combining collage and print ALL 19 bedrooms on the second floor which All Personal Protection Equipment and portraiture APR 22–24 watercolour painting – beginners BEG 16 Compelling story writing, 3 BEG/INT 26 Beginners’ silversmithing BEG 41 are suitable for visitors with limited appropriate for each activity is supplied APR 22–25 woodturning bowls INT 61 MAR 18–22 Painting and screenprinting on cloth ALL 54 Traditional gilding techniques INT/ADV 62 Mosaics BEG/INT 34 mobility but not for wheelchair users. by the College except footwear – steel MAR 19 create bridal flowers BEG/INT 31 Watercolour painting BEG 17 Oil painting BEG/INT 16 toe capped safety boots are required Trees – care and management ALL 31 Watercolour painting INT/ADV 17 Pop-up books and cards ALL 23 The two first-floor Art Studios in the for courses held in the Forge. MAR 20–24 sculpting animals in clay ALL 51 Photographing nature ALL 46 APR 24–29 watercolour painting – self-expression INT/ADV 16 Main House are reached by a single MAR 20–25 silversmithing INT/ADV 40 MAY 29–JUNE 3 sculpture – steel and stone ALL 51 APR 25–28 Fine felted fabric accessories ALL 57 MAR 21–24 Paperworks and paper clay ALL 48 MAY 30–JUNE 2 digital portraiture INT/ADV 46 flight of stairs or a stair-lift. The Forge, APR 26–29 working with beads BEG 39 Inventive drawing ALL 11 MAY 30–JUNE 3 large clay sculptures ALL 51 the Orangery, Auditorium and the APR 29–MAY 1 silversmithing – chasing and repoussé BEG 40 MAR 22–25 woodturning – tools and bowls INT 61 Glass fusing with pattern bars INT/ADV 34 Sculpture Courtyard are not in the Main APR 29–MAY 2 Painting tulips in watercolours ALL 10 Design and make a top INT 53 MAY 31–JUNE 3 life drawing ALL 12 Stone carving – the Green Man ALL 50 House. The Orangery is situated in the MAR 25–27 improve your woodcarving INT/ADV 61 JUNE 5 Pottery – a practical glazing day ALL 48
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If details and notification of any final Full payment required if booking less than 6 weeks course that you are interested in, then additional forms are required, please payment required. in advance of course, or if the cost of the course is £95 or Your Details selecting the ‘book’ button to the right photocopy the form or download one less. (Please include the cost for cancellation protection of it. If the course is full, you will not be from the website www.westdean.org.uk. If the course is fully booked you will indicated on page 71 if required.) Title (Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Dr etc) First Name able to select this option, but you can be contacted promptly, your name will Cancellation protection (per person, per Surname choose to join the waiting list. A deposit of £95 per person, per course be added to the waiting list and any course) is payable, or the full cost of the course monies paid will be returned. The cost of cancellation protection must be added to Address The full fee is payable when booking if £95 or less (please include the cost for each deposit at the time of booking, or if less than 6 online and a 5% discount will be cancellation protection indicated ALL BOOKINGS ARE SUBJECT TO weeks in advance of the course, to the full payment for applied for course bookings in this on page 71 if required). THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS each course. Postcode Country brochure (the 5% discount has already DETAILED ON PAGES 70–71 Card details (AMEX not accepted) been reflected in the course fees shown The final payment is due six weeks Please charge my card below with: Email online). before the start of the course. Full Bookings and enquiries Full fee or Deposit (including cancellation payment is therefore required if you Admissions Office: Mon to Fri, Telephone home work/mobile protection if required) and then final balance When you have booked on a course make your booking within six weeks 9am–1pm and 2–5pm 6 weeks before course start date. a confirmation email will instantly be of the start date of the course. Enquiries only: Saturday and Sunday Special needs: Please provide brief details here or supply a letter with your booking form sent to you, asking you to download 9am–5pm Card No Diet the full course details and arrival and If paying by credit or debit card, this registration information. If you have includes authorisation of the final tel: 0844 4994408 Security code (3 digit code on reverse of card) booked accommodation, you will payment six weeks before the start fax: +44 (0)1243 818293 Valid from date Expiry date receive a separate email confirmation of the course. Mobility within three working days. Phoning from abroad: Issue no (if applicable) If there is a place on the course, a +44 (0)1243 811301 Name (as on card) booking confirmation pack will be If this is your first course at sent to you as soon as possible. This email: [email protected] Cheque West Dean College, how Full fee or Deposit (including cancellation did you hear about it? protection if required) Payable to “The Edward James Foundation Ltd” Please retain my name on West Dean’s mailing list yes no USUAL TIMETABLE London Arrival Day 1 How to get to West Dean Signature I would like to receive email updates from West Dean yes no 4.00pm Arrival for residential I would like my confirmation emailed posted students. Non-residential students West Dean College is situated in South East England, on the A286, Date arrive (by 6.45pm) for welcome six miles north of the historic city of Chichester and six miles south chat and dinner. of Midhurst. There is convenient road access from London (65 Course Details (please refer to each course listing in brochure for fees) 7.00pm Dinner miles) and from Gatwick, Southampton andGuildford Heathrow airports. It 8.15 –9.15pm First teaching session is within reach of EurotunnelFarnham connections as well as cross channel Courses Course Course/lecture title Dates Cost (£) Daily Timetable code 9.15am Morning classes ferries from Portsmouth, Dover and Newhaven. The nearest railway station is Chichester (from London Victoria) from where the College 10.30am Coffee 1st course 11.00am Classes minibus collects students at certain times. Further travel details are 12.45pm Lunch sent with our booking confirmation letter. 2.00pm Afternoon classes Haslemere 2nd course 3.30pm Tea A3 5.00pm Classes finish 3rd course A272 Billingshurst 7.00pm Dinner A272 Petersfield A272 8.15pm Evening working – students Petworth may have evening access to certain Midhurst Accommodation Accommodation Required? no yes Please indicate your preferred room type and enter costs in the table below Pulborough workshops in the absence of their A285 A3(M) course course course tutor, but only with their tutor’s A286 A29 1st 2nd 3rd permission and provided it is safe Single room with shared bathroom facilities (located in the main house and limited in number) to do so. West Dean College Standard room with en-suite or adjacent private bath or shower Single occupancy Some courses and lectures follow different A27 A27 (located in the main house or annexes) Havant Twin occupancy see below timetables. Details are sent with booking Arundel A27 confirmation. A259 Chichester Superior room with en-suite bathroom Single occupancy A259 Worthing Departure – last day Portsmouth Littlehampton Twin occupancy see below 10.00am Residential students are Hayling Island Please select one: Main house (bath only) asked to vacate rooms Bognor Regis 3.00pm Classes finish Selsey Vicarage (bath with hand held shower attachment) 3.30pm Tea then departure Cancellation protection (see page 71) £ £ £
Sub total 1st course (including cancellation Twin occupancy? Please state name of the person you will be sharing with: protection and accommodation) Gift vouchers Gift Vouchers to the value of £10, £25, £50 or £100 are available. Sub total 2nd course (including cancellation They can only be used for full or part payment of short course fees. protection and accommodation) If they are attending a course please state the course code: Sub total 3rd course (including cancellation (a separate booking form must be completed). protection and accommodation) If they are attending on a resident-only basis (non-student). 68 Fees listed for each course are non-residential – please see page 71 for accommodation costs | Short Courses November 2010–May 2011 please0844 add 4994408 £63 per| [email protected] night (full board) Please |include on-line the booking cost of at cancellation www.westdean.org.uk TOTAL 69 protection if required. CANCELLATION PROTECTION EXCLUSIONS You may have to pay for such materials and/or equipment 13.2 No failure or delay on the part of the College in (or in the courtyard eating area): in addition to the Course Fee. exercising any right, power or privilege under these Terms 18.1.1 smoking; or (1) Participation in the course which is booked or commenced by a Covered Person:- Cancellation Protection can be arranged at the time of booking. If the appropriate Cancellation 10 Limitation of liability shall operate as a waiver of such right, power or privilege, 18.1.2 pets, other than assistance dogs (and such must not be left Supplement Fee has been paid, we will reimburse you (The Covered Person) up to £1410.00 for (a) contrary to medical advice, or 10.1 this clause 10 sets out the entire liability of the College nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power in vehicles in the College’s car park at any time). or privilege preclude any other or further exercise of it or 18.2 the College will endeavour to cater for special diets Accommodation and Course Fee (excluding the Cancellation Supplement Fee) less an amount (b) to obtain medical treatment, or in respect of any breach of these Terms; and any tortious of £10 should your participation in the Course be cancelled or curtailed before completion, act or omission including negligence arising under or in the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. required for medical reasons. You must provide details directly as a result of (c) after a terminal prognosis has been made. connection with these Terms. 14 invalidity on Your booking form if You have any special dietary requirements. If You wish to discuss Your requirements i. death, Bodily Injury, Illness or compulsory quarantine of:- (2) Pregnancy and childbirth. 10.2 Notwithstanding any other provision in these Terms, 14.1 if any provision of these Terms (or part of any provision) neither party’s liability to the other for death or personal is found by any court or other authority of competent in detail, contact the College’s Catering Manager on (a) a Covered Person, or (3) Any condition or set of circumstances known to a Covered Person at the time of effecting injury resulting from its own negligence shall be limited. jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that telephone number 01243 818268. The College is unable to this Protection, where such condition or set of circumstances could reasonably have been cater for strict vegans. (b) any person accompanying a Covered Person, or 10.3 the College shall not be liable to You for any of the provision or part-provision shall, to the extent required, expected to give rise to Cancellation or Curtailment. following losses or damage (whether or not such losses be deemed not to form part of these Terms, and the 19 Cancellation Protection Insurance (c) any close relative (including fiancé(e)) or business associate necessitating aC overed (4) Mountaineering (normally involving ropes &/or guides &/or special equipment) sports or damage were foreseen, direct, foreseeable, known or validity and enforceability of the other provisions of these 19.1 the terms of the cancellation protection insurance are as Person to cancel or curtail his/her participation in the course. tours and motor competitions otherwise): Terms shall not be affected. set out in the Brochure loss of revenue; loss of actual or anticipated profits 14.2 if a provision of these Terms (or part of any provision) is 19.2 in order to take out Cancellation Protection you must tick ii. redundancy (provided that such redundancy qualifies for payment underR edundancy (5) The first £10 each claim, each Covered Person. Payments Act) or marital breakdown (provided that formal legal proceedings have been (including without limitation loss of profits on contracts); found illegal, invalid or unenforceable, the provision shall the appropriate box on the Booking Form and enclose commenced) of:- (6) Any claim(s) in any way caused or contributed to by an act of terrorism involving the use or loss of the use of money; loss of business; loss of apply with the minimum modification necessary to make it the appropriate cancellation protection fee and send release or the threat thereof of any nuclear weapon or device or chemical or biological opportunity; loss of goodwill; loss of reputation; loss of, legal, valid and enforceable. it together with your Booking Form and deposit to the (a) a Covered Person, or agent. damage to or corruption of data; or any indirect, special 15 Entire Agreement College’s Admissions office (b) any person accompanying a Covered Person. For the purposes of this exclusion an act of terrorism means an act, including but not limited or consequential loss or damage howsoever. 15.1 these Terms and its Schedule constitute the entire 20 definitions iii. summoning to jury service or witness attendance in a court of law of:- to the use of force or violence and/or the threat thereof, of any person or group(s) of 10.4 subject to clauses 10.2 and 10.3 above, the total agreement and understanding between the parties and 20.1 in these Terms the following words shall have the persons, whether acting alone or on behalf of or in connection with any organisation(s) aggregate liability of the College arising out of, or in supersedes any previous agreement between the parties following meanings: (a) a Covered Person, or or government(s), committed for political, religious, ideological or similar purposes or connection with these Terms whether for negligence relating to the subject matter of this Agreement. 20.1.1 “Brochure” means the current Course brochure in which (b) any person accompanying a Covered Person. reasons including the intention to influence any government and/or to put the public, or any or breach of contract or any case whatsoever shall be 15.2 you acknowledge and agree that in accepting these Terms the Course was advertised; section of the public, in fear. capped at the total amount of sums paid to the College by You do not rely on, and shall have no remedy in respect of, 20.1.2 “Booking Form” means the form contained within the iv. Major damage or burglary at the home or place of business of:- You. any statement, representation, warranty, or understanding Brochure (a) a Covered Person, or (7) this Protection does not cover 10.5 the terms of this clause 10 shall survive the termination of (whether negligently or innocently made) of any person 20.1.3 “Cooling Off Period” means the period beginning two these Terms. (b) any person accompanying a Covered Person. (a) loss or destruction of or damage to any property whatsoever or any loss or expense (whether party to these Terms or not) other than as (2) days after You send Your completed Booking Form to whatsoever resulting or arising therefrom or any legal consequential loss 11 Changes to Published Information expressly set out in these Terms. Nothing in this clause the College and ending upon the expiry of the following v. adverse weather conditions making it impossible for a Covered Person to travel to the seven (7) business day period; (b) any legal liability of whatsoever nature, directly or indirectly caused by or contributed 11.1 while the College has made reasonable endeavours to shall operate to limit or exclude any liability for fraud. point of departure at commencement of the outward trip. ensure the accuracy of the Brochure, the College reserves 15.3 unless otherwise expressly provided elsewhere in these 20.1.4 “Consumer Protection Regulations” means the to by or arising from (i) ionising radiations or contamination by radioactivity from any Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 vi. unforeseen occupational posting of a Covered Person by his/her current employer (not nuclear fuel or from any nuclear waste from the combustion of nuclear fuel (ii) the the right to make changes to any Courses (or other Terms, the Agreement may be varied only by a document applicable to self employed persons). information) as may be necessary. You will be notified signed by both parties. (SI 2000/2334), as amended by the Consumer Protection radioactive, toxic, explosive or other hazardous properties of any explosive nuclear (Distance Selling) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (SI assembly or nuclear component thereof. of any proposed changes to the Course in advance, 16 Exclusion of third party rights vii. theft of a private motor vehicle up to 7 days prior to commencement of the outward trip, or wherever this is reasonably possible. 16.1 the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 shall not 689/2005). a motoring accident occurring during travel to the point of departure of:- GENERAL CONDITION 12 notices apply to these Terms and no person other than the parties 20.1.5 “Course” means the course of study run by the College; (a) a Covered Person, or 12.1 any notice or other communication required to be given to the Agreement shall have any rights under it, nor shall 20.1.6 “Course Fee” means all the fees to be paid by You or on Any fraud, misstatement or concealment in the statement made by or on behalf of a Covered Your behalf to the College under these Terms (including (b) any person accompanying a Covered Person. by You to the College under these Terms, shall be in it be enforceable under that Act by any person other than Person prior to or when effecting the Protection or in the submission of a claim made writing and shall be delivered personally, or sent by pre- the parties to it. accommodation, but not including the Deposit), as hereunder shall render this Protection null and void and all claims hereunder shall be viii. Strikes, locked out workers, industrial action, riots &/or civil commotions, hi-jack, paid first-class post or recorded delivery or by courier, 17 governing law and jurisdiction stipulated in the Brochure; forfeited. “Deposit” avalanches, landslides, adverse weather or mechanical breakdown of scheduled aircraft, to the Head of Finance at the address set out on the front 17.1 these Terms, and any dispute, controversy, proceedings 20.1.7 means the deposit to be paid to the College coach, train or sea vessel services in which a Covered Person was booked to travel to to reserve Your place on the Course (as set out in the NOTICE TO THE COVERED PERSON page of this document or as otherwise specified by the or claim of whatever nature arising out of or in any way participate in the course. College in writing to You. relating to them or their formation, shall be governed by Brochure); “Refund” The Protection referred to herein is subject to English Law. 13 Waiver and construed in accordance with the laws of England 20.1.8 means a refund of the Course Fee following DEFINITIONS 13.1 a waiver of any term, provision or condition of these and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the cancellation under clause 5 of these Terms such refund to All claims for reimbursement should be addressed to Poole Martin Limited who will act as the be made within thirty (30) days beginning with the date on (1) “BODILY INJURY” means identifiable physical injury which:- appointed Claims Coordinator. Terms shall be effective only if given in writing and signed English Courts. by both parties and then only in the instance and for the which notice of cancellation was sent; (a) is sustained by a Covered Person, and 18 Enquiries and other important information 20.1.9 “Terms” means these standard terms and conditions; The address is: purpose for which it is given. 18.1 the following are not permitted on the College’s premises (b) is caused by an Accident during the Period of this Protection, and Poole Martin Limited – Insurance Brokers (c) solely and independently of any other cause, except illness directly resulting from or 8 Elmdale Road medical or surgical treatment rendered necessary by such injury, occasions the death or Bristol disablement of a Covered Person within twelve months from the date of the Accident. BS8 1SL ACCOMMODATION FEES WINTER 2010/11 PER PERSON accommodation includes dinner and breakfast (2) “ACCIDENT” means a sudden, unexpected, unusual, specific event which occurs at an Tel : (0117) 9276676 (see course entries for course fees) identifiable time and place, but shall also include exposure resulting from a mishap to a Fax: (0117) 9226935 conveyance in which a Covered Person is travelling. E-mail: [email protected] Rooms with shared Standard Rooms Superior Rooms with bathroom facilities with private bath/shower ensuite bath/shower College reserves the right to cancel your place on the Refund (including Refund of Your Deposit), pursuant to the (limited availability) (ensuite or adjacent) WEST DEAN COLLEGE Course with immediate effect and to keep any Deposit Consumer Protection Regulations. TERMS AND CONDITIONS that you may have paid. 6.2 subject to clause 6.1, provided You cancel Your booking Single twin Single twin 4.3 the Course Fee and accommodation fee are as stated in no less than six (6) weeks prior to the Course start date, occupancy occupancy occupancy occupancy 1 Booking a Course the Brochure. The Course Fee includes use of the facilities the College will refund any Course Fee You have paid, 1.1 courses are open to anyone aged sixteen (16) and over, and refreshments as further described in the full course save for Your Deposit. though those aged sixteen (16) or seventeen (17) must be description. 6.3 the College will refund neither the Course Fee nor Your WE weekend Fri eve to Sun pm £95 £127 £89 £151 £99 accompanied by an adult 4.4 you may pay (or part-pay) the Course Fee for short Deposit if You: 1.2 in order to book a place on a Course you must complete courses (including any accommodation charges) using 6.3.1 cancelled Your booking within six (6) weeks of the Course 2 day course the Booking Form and return it to the College Admissions gift vouchers (which are available from the College in start date; or 2D £95 £127 £89 £151 £99 Office with the appropriate Deposit, unless booking online the values of £5, £10, £25, £50 and £100) or Loyal Lobster 6.3.2 fail to attend all or any part of the Course for any reason 1.3 your place on a Course will be subject to availability and vouchers (which are issued under the College’s loyalty whatsoever including (without limitation) ill health. your place on any Course will not be confirmed until we LW long weekend £147 £195 £138 £231 £153 scheme in the value of £100 and which are subject to 6.4 save as provided for in clauses 6.1 and 5.3, the College (Thu/Fri eve to Sun/Mon pm) send you the Course joining instructions. separate terms and conditions). will be under no obligation to refund Your Deposit. 1.4 if the College is unable to offer you a place on the Course 4.5 you must pay all charges in connection with any payments 6.5 subject to clause 6.1, You will not be entitled to a of your choice, it will notify You and Your name will be made by bank transfer. Refund of any Course Fee (or other fees) if the College 3D 3 day course £147 £195 £138 £231 £153 added to a Course waiting list. Any sums You have already 4.6 any damage caused by You (other than fair wear and terminates this Agreement due to Your breach of any of paid to the College in respect of this Course will be tear) to the College, its facilities, equipment or resources these Terms. returned to You will be separately invoiced by the College and such 7 accommodation 4D 4 day course £199 £263 £187 £311 £207 2 the College’s Rights and Obligations amounts shall be payable by You on demand. 7.1 accommodation for Course study is allocated on a first- 2.1 the College reserves the right to change the venue, 5 Course Transfer / Cancellation come, first-served basis. If the College does not offer time, date, or Tutor of any Course where such change is 5.1 you may transfer Your booking to an alternative You Your preferred choice of accommodation, then the 5D 5 day course £251 £331 £236 £391 £261 necessary to facilitate the delivery or better delivery of published course, providing there is a place available College will use reasonable endeavours to allocate You such Course. on that course, however Your request must be received alternative accommodation and Your fees will be adjusted 2.2 the College reserves the right to modify the content or at least six (6) weeks prior to the Course start date for accordingly. 6D 6 day course £303 £399 £285 £471 £315 method of delivery of any Course from time to time. the original Course. The College will charge You an 7.2 the College will use reasonable endeavours to ensure 2.3 the College reserves the right to withdraw from any administration fee of twenty-five pounds (£25) in order that Your room is available from 4.00pm on the day you 7D 7 day course £355 £467 £334 £551 £369 accreditation scheme at any time or to cancel any Course to transfer courses. If the Course Fee for the alternative are due to arrive and You must vacate rooms by 10.00am if in the College’s opinion it is no longer viable. Course is more expensive than the original Course you (both times GMT) on the last day of your Course. 3 your Rights and obligations must pay any additional Course Fee immediately upon 7.3 you must ensure that the accommodation, its furnishings MI Musical Instrument Making £387 £531 £360 £639 £405 3.1 you should bring Your joining instructions with you to the making the request to transfer. The College will reimburse and effects are kept as clean and tidy as is consistent The course fee shown against the start of the Course. the difference in Course Fees to you (less the £25 admin with their proper use and in any event You shall ensure Musical Instrument Making courses 3.2 you must notify the College, in writing, if any of Your charge) if the original Course Fee was more expensive that such are in no worse a condition (fair wear and tear registration details change including but not limited to than the Course Fee for the alternative Course. excepted) upon the end of Your stay than they were when on page 62 includes all dinners – the Your name, address, telephone number and/or e-mail 5.2 the College reserves the right to cancel this agreement You originally entered such accommodation. room rates have therefore been address. with You if it is prevented from or delayed in the carrying 7.4 you will notify the College immediately of any damage reduced accordingly. 3.3 you agree to comply with all of the College’s policies and on of its business due to circumstances beyond its to the accommodation, its furnishings or effects (whether procedures applicable to You and to act with courtesy, reasonable control. caused by You or otherwise) on vacating Your room. You consideration and integrity at all times towards the 5.3 the College reserves the right to cancel the Course are not permitted to share Your room with anyone else at RESIDENT ONLY non-students A rate of £63 per night full board is payable by a partner sharing a room with a paying student. College, its staff and other students at the College. The at any time, in this event You will be notified as soon as any time unless arranged in advance with the College and College reserves the right, in its absolute discretion, possible. any additional fees have been paid. to terminate this agreement and to remove You from 5.4 if Your booking and/or Course is cancelled by the 8 accessibility the Course and/or to exclude You from the College in College You can: 8.1 the College’s premises comprise a large historic building circumstances where Your conduct is deemed by the 5.4.1 transfer to another Course (You will have to pay any with several changes in floor area. The College has made College to be unfit or unsuitable or damaging to the additional Course Fee) ; or adaptations to its premises in an attempt to enable those College or its reputation. If You are removed from the 5.4.2 receive a full Refund for any Course Fee, Deposit and with disabilities to attend Courses. You must indicate any Course in accordance with this clause, the College will cancellation protection fees You have paid. concerns You may have in relation to access (or any other Course deposits and cancellation protection per person per course not refund any sums paid by You to the College. 5.5 cancellation of bookings by You: concerns) on Your booking form. You can give specific 4 payment & Charges 5.5.1 if You wish to cancel Your booking, You must notify the details on a separate, confidential, sheet of paper. You Deposits Cancellation Protection 4.1 you must pay the Deposit or the full Course Fee (if such Admissions Office as soon as possible by telephone and will then be contacted by a member of the College’s staff amount is less than or equal to the minimum Deposit value then confirm such cancellation in writing; then who will discuss Your individual requirements. See page 70 for full details of cancellation protection stated in the Brochure) at the same time as You send the 5.5.2 if appropriate, the College will promptly send You a 9 materials and Equipment cancellation protection insurance claim form; College the Booking Form. Payment of the balance of the 9.1 Prior to the start of your Course You will be given a More than six weeks prior to the course, Course Fee (if relevant) will be due six (6) weeks prior to 6 refund Policy detailed list of materials and/or equipment which are Course fees and accommodation up to £100 £9 the Course start date. 6.1 if You cancel Your booking within the Cooling Off Period needed for the Course. The cost of such materials and/or a deposit of £95 secures a place (or the full Course fees and accommodation up to £650 £19 4.2 if you fail to pay the full Course Fee when it is due the (as defined in clause 20.1.3),Y ou will be entitled to a full equipment is not always included in the Course Fee, thus course fee if £95 or less). Any balance is Course fees and accommodation above £650 £32 payable six weeks prior to the start of the course. 70 Fees listed for each course are non-residential – please see page 71 for accommodation costs | Short Courses November 2010–May 2011 71 PLANNING West Dean, Alison Baxter, Head of Short Courses and Conferences Chichester, Rosemary Marley, Short Course West Sussex Organiser Annie Guilfoyle, Garden Course PO18 0QZ Consultant tel: 0844 4994408 Marcus Martin, Music Course from abroad: +44 (0)1243 811301 Consultant Rosemary Moon and Mike Imms fax: +44 (0)1243 818293 Food Consultants email: [email protected] Greg Mosse, Creative Writing Consultant TEXT West Dean College and Caroline Pearce-Higgins PHOTOGRAPHY New images by Jenny Dwyer-Ward, Rosemary Marley and Kenton Mee DESIGN oysterdesign.co.uk Short Course Supporters CD Metals, Chichester Westham House Fund
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