Late availability on arts and craft short courses at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation

Late Availability

Don't miss the chance to learn a new skill or nurture your existing talents on a creative short course. From painting to woodworking and mosaics to basket weaving, you're sure to find something to inspire.

Jewellery workshop

27 Jan 2026 | West Dean
Booking closed
Tutor: Laila Smith |
Suitable for all
£163

Printmaking – embossing

28 Jan 2026 | London
Booking closed
Tutor: Caroline Wendling |
Suitable for all
£135

Make a fused glass panel

29 Jan 2026 | West Dean
Booking closed
Tutor: Martin Cheek |
Suitable for all
£194

Watercolour painting – progressing your skills

29 Jan 2026 to 1 Feb 2026 | West Dean
Booking closed
Tutor: Susie Hunt |
Beginners/Intermediate
£473

Woodcarving – a fish in limewood

31 Jan 2026 to 1 Feb 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Alex Jones |
Beginners
£324

Understanding soil and making compost

1 Feb 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Sylvia Travers |
Suitable for all
£157

Botanical painting – fruit, vegetables and seedheads

1 to 3 Feb 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Sandrine Maugy |
Suitable for all
£322

Throwing and turning teapots

8 to 12 Feb 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Tim Andrews |
Intermediate/Advanced
£704

Acrylic ink painting – methodologies from the East

10 to 13 Feb 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Christine Forbes |
Suitable for all
£515

Patterned ceramic panels and tiles

12 to 15 Feb 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Joanna Veevers |
Suitable for all
£516

Growing colour for textiles – creating a dye garden

14 Feb 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Vicky Way |
Suitable for all
£170

Slow marks – natural dyes, drawing and stitch

15 to 19 Feb 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Sophie Bowen |
Suitable for all
£638

Painting with earth

15 to 19 Feb 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Peter Ward |
Suitable for all
£662

Mixed media images – paint, print, collage

19 to 22 Feb 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Jo Dixon |
Beginners/Intermediate
£495

Botanical painting – the winter garden

19 to 22 Feb 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Mariella Baldwin |
Suitable for all
£477

Japanese woodcut printmaking

19 to 22 Feb 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Akiko Fujikawa |
Suitable for all
£529

Stone carving in relief – a Celtic knot

20 to 22 Feb 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Ann-Margreth Bohl |
Suitable for all
£326

Story gatherings – mixed media and collaged textiles

22 to 25 Feb 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Jane Chipp |
Beginners/Intermediate
£486

Painterly silk-screen printing

27 Feb 2026 to 2 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Jane Sampson |
Suitable for all
£509

Enamelled copper beads – torch fired

2 to 6 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Sharon Ford |
Beginners/Intermediate
£611

Botanical French beading – helleborus

3 to 5 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Holly Parr |
Beginners/Intermediate
£347

Contemporary Kantha stitching with re-used fabrics

5 to 8 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Amarjeet Nandhra |
Beginners/Intermediate
£474

Sculpting the figure with clay

6 to 9 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Gilbert Whyman |
Beginners/Intermediate
£590

Painterly monotypes with collage

6 to 8 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: May Everett |
Beginners/Intermediate
£334

The winter garden – Creating and maintaining interest

7 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Benjamin Pope |
Suitable for all
£170

Photorealistic free machine embroidery

8 to 10 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Julie Heaton |
Beginners/Intermediate
£327

Writing your family history

10 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Joanna Moorhead |
Beginners
£162

The extended sketchbook

10 to 13 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Annabel Tilley |
Intermediate
£486

Kumihimo – Japanese braidmaking

10 to 13 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Jacqui Carey |
Suitable for all
£471

Wheel-throwing with components and hollow forms

12 to 15 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Jo Davies |
Intermediate
£537

Writing for children and young adults

13 to 15 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Catherine Johnson |
Suitable for all
£314

Plant-led spring propagation

14 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Hannah Fox |
Suitable for all
£172

Lithography on lino – an eco printmaking technique

15 to 19 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Mary Dalton |
Suitable for all
£616

Indian brass inlay block-printed textiles

16 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Jenney Kelly |
Beginners
£196

Free machine embroidered pictures

17 to 19 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Linda Miller |
Suitable for all
£319

Silver clay – lidded pot

17 to 19 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Grainne Reynolds |
Beginners/Intermediate
£391
Tom Brown. Photo credit: Sam Stephenson

Practical gardening skills: Spring shrub pruning

18 Mar 2026 | West Dean
2 places available
Tutor: Tom Brown |
Suitable for all
£74

Calligraphy – modern pointed pen, copperplate or italic

19 to 22 Mar 2026 | West Dean
2 places available
Tutor: Gaynor Goffe |
Suitable for all
£486

Drawing – brilliant basics

20 to 22 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Ruby Saul |
Beginners
£371

Glass fusing and slumping

20 to 23 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Katrina Beattie |
Suitable for all
£546

Landscape painting in soft pastel and mixed media

22 to 26 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Sarah Bee |
Intermediate/Advanced
£630

Sculpture skills – rubber mould making for lost wax casting

26 to 29 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Stephen Coles |
Suitable for all
£571

Paint it big

26 to 29 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Louise Rainbow |
Intermediate
£596

Botanical drawing – colours and textures of spring flowers

27 to 30 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Ann Swan |
Intermediate/Advanced
£471

How to write poetry

27 to 29 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Janet Sutherland |
Beginners/Intermediate
£319

Jewellery making with an emphasis on fastenings and findings

27 to 30 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Sarah Macrae |
Intermediate/Advanced
£472

Introduction to stone carving

27 to 29 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Simon Keeley |
Beginners/Intermediate
£348

Designing with water in the garden

28 Mar 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Dan Lobb |
Suitable for all
£159

Vision of colour

29 Mar 2026 to 3 Apr 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Mark Cazalet |
Intermediate/Advanced
£745

Musical instrument making – traditional stringed and keyboard instruments

31 Mar 2026 to 9 Apr 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutors: Andy Butterworth | Geoff Bowers |
Intermediate/Advanced
£1,371

Boro bobbin diaries – stitching stories by hand

31 Mar 2026 to 3 Apr 2026 | West Dean
Places available
Tutor: Deena Beverley |
Suitable for all
£496