Welcome to 2008, and our June to October Short Course Brochure.

We’ve been hard at work over the past six months putting together this programme of inspiring courses for you. With familiar favourites nestling alongside innovative new ones, there is much for you to absorb.

Once again, we’ve brought together an amazing line up of tutors. New to West Dean this season, are internationally renowned practitioners:

• Susan Cross, a Jerwood Applied Arts Prize winner for contemporary jewellery
• Hiroshi Suzuki, world-renowned silversmith creating dramatic large scale vessels and smaller scale beakers and boxes
• Garrett Hack, a furniture maker from Vermont specialising in contemporary interpretations of Federal style furniture
• Brian Boggs, from Kentucky, whose beautiful handmade chairs are not only a work of art, but comfortable and built to last a lifetime
• Jo Budd, a textile artist and writer, who focuses on evoking the landscape through textile and quilting
• Michael Brennand-Wood, a textile artist with a national and international reputation for innovative and imaginative combinations of ideas and media

With the longer summer days fast approaching why not take the opportunity to explore West Dean and the surrounding areas more fully, by booking additional accommodation nights around your course dates. 

With the gardens and grounds at their most vibrant, you’ll discover why many of those who visit, whether they be taking creative writing, gardening or art courses, find the landscape and artifacts at West Dean inspirational to their work.

Robert Pulley
Principal