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.
Zara Drummond
Zara Drummond changed career from award-winning Industrial Designer to Fine Artist after a riding accident. She re-trained at Chelsea College of Arts, and studied drawing at the Royal College of Arts. With paintings in private collections all over the world, Zara Drummond is best known for her portraits over the last twenty years.
Describe your approach to teaching:
I am keen to pass on techniques tools and skills, so you may be
free to develop past the technique towards individual freedom and
style. The teaching is multi-layered: teaching each individual
student whilst maintaining group cohesion and purpose..
What inspres your own work?
Light, colour and nature inspires my work. I never tire of the
human figure which forms the basis of most of my work.