Help preserve our future
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.
Jeremy and Carla Bonner
Jeremy and Carla Bonner established Bonner Leather Studio in
2014 just outside Cirencester, where they work together. Jeremy
graduated from Birmingham School of Art and Carla graduated from
Newcastle on Tyne Polytechnic.
Approach to teaching
In a cheerful and relaxed class, we aim to equip all our students
with the necessary hand skills, knowledge and confidence to work
with leather, while emphasizing simple straightforward
design.
What inspires your own work?
We do not limit our inspiration. From archaic/defunct industrial
forms of baggage through to modern product design and architecture,
from artists such as Joseph Beuys, Dick Bruna all the way up to the
artisan worker who remains unrecognised. The makers of wrought iron
nails, three legged milking stools, baskets makers, pargeters and
coopers.