Inspirational art and craft courses at West Dean College

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In 2012 the team behind West Dean Gardens, Jim Buckland and Sarah Wain, have won three awards for their work over the past 25 years in the restoration of West Dean Gardens.   West Dean College sits in the middle of the Gardens and uses this landscape as a rich resource for its arts, craft and photography courses. 

Be inspired on the following courses during May at West Dean …

For Artists

A Sussex Sketchbook – drawing course, 3–6 May

Long-weekend course (ref: LW3821), course fee £302, Suitable for all

Learn to make the best of your sketchbook for recording observations and developing visual ideas. Practical help is given on location, in the house and gardens of West Dean. Back in the studio, exercises in perspective and composition, with advice on media, will help provide structure to developing your interpretive skills. With Paul Cox.

The spring landscape – painting outdoors in oils, 6–10 May

4-day course (ref: 4D3825), course fee £390, Suitable for all

Develop techniques specific to the demands of outdoor landscape painting in oils and create work which expresses your own response to the subject. With Tom Benjamin.

For further information contact [email protected]


More courses will be held later in the summer.

West Dean College
Chichester
West Sussex
PO18 OQZ