West Dean College of Arts and Conservation recently welcomed 30 budding Year 10 artists from St Philip Howard Catholic School for a life drawing lesson delivered by artist and tutor, Chris Gilvan-Cartwright.

Programme Coordinator and Tutor Tiffany Robinson gives her tips focusing on experiencing the light and the land to make more visceral responses in drawing and writing during autumn.

6 Top tips for putting together a digital portfolio as part of your application onto the Foundation Degree Arts programme at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation.

Foundation Degree Arts - Metalwork student Finn has written a blog post about a unique object from the West Dean Collection, a silver porringer.

Foundation Diploma in Art and Design (FDAD) alumna Sue tells us about her latest project and where her love of puppets stemmed from.

The Sketchbook Project is brought to you by the Short Course programming team at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation. The project is designed to bring you regular inspiration from the Gardens which can be used to draw, paint, stitch or print using the colours, textures and shapes from the images in your work. 

In this blog post, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design student Vanessa McGlone talks about her pop-up exhibition she held in her garden during lockdown. The show, titled 'Impermanence', showed her concept body of work of hand stitched squares of paper on which she painted a number of landscapes and figures. Find out more in this blog post.

2019 MFA alumna, Emma Straw, is currently working with the West Dean Tapestry Studio to realise a new tapestry translated from one of Edward James’ artworks. Read the blog to find out more.

As we reach the end of 2019, Alison Baxter, Head of School of Arts, reflects on some of the School's highlights from the year.