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Androula’s kitchen: a meze of Cypriot food and craft
Listed on February 15, 2014 by West Dean College in Featured CoursesSonia cooks her favourite family dishes from a cuisine still rooted in Mediterranean seasonal food traditions. A greedy artist in search of the crafts and food of her homeland, she also gives an illustrated talk about the traditional and emerging crafts of the sun-drenched home of her ancestors.Read more ... -
Learn a skill, Make a gift: Make a Silver Spoon
Listed on December 7, 2013 by West Dean College in Featured CoursesExperience hand forging sterling silver using hammers to make a silver spoon – a special gift or a family heirloom. Read more ... -
Squashed! Getting creative with pumpkins and squashes
Listed on October 26, 2013 by West Dean College in Featured CoursesPumpkin fanatic Rosemary Moon will transform your expectations of one of winter’s most useful ingredients. Packed full of flavour pumpkins are one of winter’s most versatile foods. Lots of cooking demos, practical group work, eating and growing tips.Read more ... -
Furniture making skills – for beginners
Listed on September 15, 2013 by West Dean College in Featured CoursesLearn hand skills which are sustainable in a home workshop, as you work through each stage in the construction of a specially designed side table. You are shown the principles behind sharpening and maintaining tools (using your own or the College’s). Read more ... -
Towards abstraction – painting still-lifes
Listed on September 15, 2013 by West Dean College in Featured CoursesMany artists reach a stage in their development when mere representation is not sufficient for personal expression. Learn to respond directly to the subject of still-life using mixed media to explore line, form, colour and texture. Read more ... -
BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time comes to West Dean
Listed on September 12, 2013 by West Dean College in Member NewsFans of BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time are in for a treat as the popular panel show is set to record at West Dean Gardens near Chichester for the first time.Read more ... -
Fantastical painting – creating imagined worlds
Listed on September 6, 2013 by West Dean College in Featured CoursesExplore your imagined worlds, create painted realities, and work with themes dealing with fantastical narratives, surrealist dreams and the dynamics of the imagination in a playful and practical manner.Read more ... -
Polymer clay jewellery extrusions galore
Listed on August 26, 2013 by West Dean College in Featured CoursesLearn exciting ways of making polymer clay jewellery using the extruder tool. Explore the many design possibilities and ways of loading the extruder as you expand your personal repertoire of shapes and colours as you cut, twist, stack, wrap and slice.Read more ... -
Text and image – the art of letterpress printing
Listed on August 3, 2013 by West Dean College in Featured CoursesLearn the basics of letterpress printing using techniques that date back hundreds of years. Printing text from metal type and images using the simple relief process, you explore the possibilities for combining the two and learn how to set metal type, mix ink and print with a press.Read more ... -
Some of the UK’s best courses selected by Homes & Antiques magazine
Listed on July 31, 2013 by LeisureCourses.net in Crafts & Textiles, Painting & DrawingHomes & Antiques magazine searched the UK for some of the best courses in 2013 to rekindle an old hobby or learn something new. Their selection includes several members of LeisureCourses.net; Dillington House, Field Breaks, Farncombe Courses & West Dean College.Read more ... -
Fusion
Listed on June 22, 2013 by West Dean College in Featured CoursesFusion – a weekend of creativity for everyone, (22 & 23 June) will bring the best of what happens at West Dean in its vibrant art and crafts College out into the open for you to enjoy. Read more ... -
Win a free West Dean Taster Day at the Country Living Spring Fair 20-24 March
Listed on February 27, 2013 by ARCA in Member NewsARCA member West Dean College, sponsors of the ‘Best Craftsperson’ category of the Country Living Kitchen Table Talent Awards, will be making its debut at this year’s Country Living Spring Fair at the Business Design Centre, London from 20 – 24 March. Situated near Chichester, West Sussex, West Dean is renowned for its...
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