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West Dean is part of a registered charity and relies on the support of generous donors, friends, legacies to help us deliver world-class education in conservation and the creative arts and maintain our award-winning gardens.
Amanda Clayton
Having trained in Embroidery Amanda is still obsessed by the
purity of thread and cloth.
She is now working freelance after an enjoyable and satisfying few
decades working on Art Foundation courses. She enjoys sharing her
practice with others and is particularly interested in the way we
all respond to similar elements with our own visual language.
Describe your approach to teaching:
I enjoy a positive studio atmosphere of encouraging students and
identifying their individual strengths whilst supporting an
informed working process. My work is primarily in neutrals that can
put the emphasis on elements that can ordinarily be overlooked. My
creative practice is my life. It intertwines with my friends,
family, home, garden, and travels…
What inspires your own work?
For an artist practising in any media the starting points are the
same; looking, selecting and interpreting using the love and medium
of drawing, which was instilled in me from a young age. The
confidence that I had in the ability to be an individual was
encouraged along the way.