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Dr Edward Winters
Dr Ed Winters is a specialist in the aesthetics of the Visual Arts and a practising artist. He has both an M Phil and PhD in Philosophy, having studied at Portsmouth Polytechnic, the Slade School of Fine Art, Birkbeck College London and University College London. Dr Winters was a Senior Lecturer in Aesthetics at the University of Westminster before joining West Dean and his research interests include representation, imagination, painting, architecture, philosophy of mind and Wittgenstein.

Pat Taylor
Pat Taylor is a member of the index of selected makers with the British Crafts Council. Her work hangs in institutions in several countries such as The Palace of Westminster and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and Chicago University in the USA. Widely exhibited, Pat joined West Dean College in 1988 and has been a visiting lecturer at The Royal College of Art, an external examiner at Middlesex College of Art and a course advisor at Winchester College of Art. As well as teaching at West Dean, Pat is the Director of the West Dean Professional Tapestry Studio which accepts both public and private commissions.