Pat has worked in West Dean Tapestry Studio for nine years, gaining a wide range of experience in interpretative weaving. She has woven images by Henry Moore, John Piper, Maty Grunberg and many others while continuing to produce her own designs. Her most recent commission is for two large format tapestries now displayed in one of largest committee rooms in Portcullis House, the new Parliamentary building in London. The theme for her designs is Democracy, and contains two complementary definitions of democracy, combining text and photographic source material into her final compositions. Pat has been the course leader for the postgraduate diploma in tapestry weaving at West Dean College since 1988, becoming the Director of Tapestry in 2001. She has been an advisor to Winchester College of Art's Textile Art degree course and also a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art in London.

Caron has worked in the West Dean Tapestry Studio as a professional designer-weaver since 1993, being promoted to Head of the Tapestry Studio in 2001. She has worked on and/or led many commissions including work by Bill Jacklin, Marta Rogoyska, Pat Taylor, Philip Sanderson, John Hubbard and the Worshipful Company of Mercers. She is currently the project co-ordinator and team leader of the Historic Scotland commission for Stirling Castle. Caron has produced designs for Bartholomew's, Portcullis House (the Palace of Westminster commission), and Queen's College, Cambridge.

In addition to BA(Hons) in Constructed Textiles from Middlesex University, Caron has studied for postgraduate certificate in education (16-plus, post-compulsory education). She has worked as a visiting lecturer on the tapestry weaving diploma course at West Dean College and University College Chichester. Caron is also a Short Course Tutor at West Dean College and teaches on tapestry weaving workshops.

Philip has worked in the West Dean Tapestry Studio as a professional tapestry weaver since 1993. Since 1996 he has been weaving many of his own designs to commission. Previous commissions include two tapestries for Portcullis House, a 1.5m x 15m tapestry for the Surrey History Centre in Woking and two tapestries for The Mercers Company, London, collaborative designs in which he worked in partnership with Dr B.M. Watney and the Company Archivist. He also won a competition in 1996 to design a tapestry for the new wing of St. Richard's Hospital, Chichester.

Philip's work has also been included in the Golden Jubilee Celebration Book. A selection of artwork and poetry capturing a rich collection of creativity from the community of Surrey was presented to Her Majesty the Queen on 7th June 2002 at the South of England Show in Ardingly.

Philip has also worked as a visiting lecturer on the BA Constructed Textiles Course at Middlesex University, and has taught on the Introduction to Tapestry Workshops, part of the BA Textile Course at Goldsmiths College, London. Philip has a BA (Hons) from Middlesex University and an MA in Tapestry Weaving from the Royal College of Art.

The Studio employs weavers on a project-by-project basis. These weavers are all artists in their own right.

Among those working on current and recent projects are: Katherine Swailes, Louise Trotter, EmmaJo Webster, Laura Mar, Jane Brunning, Joy Smith, Tricia Warman, Louise Martin.

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