Short Courses May - October 2013 - West Dean College

David BarronBook onlineand receive a5% discounton coursesTutorsWOODWORKING AND FURNITURE MAKINGPicture framing – all levelsSeptember 16–204D4075 | £390 |Experience and practise all aspects of thepicture framer’s craft to a high standard in thisfocused course. Using basic equipment, you willlearn techniques for creative mount cutting,mitre cutting and joining mouldings, choosingcolour, proportion and glass cutting.JOHN HILLDecorative painting – exotic finishesfor furniture and framesSeptember 20–22WE4082 | £205 | NEW | /Learn how to recreate paint finishes suitablefor the decoration of furniture, frames andartefacts. Using both oil and water-based media,you explore painting the surface textures ofshagreen, mother of pearl, granite, porphyry,malachite, tortoiseshell, lapis lazuli, jasper andothers.JO MABBUTTTraditional upholstery for beginnersOctober 3–6LW4115 | £302 |Working on your own furniture, learn howto fix webbing, make the seat stuffing, andcover it in calico. The tutor will demonstrateupholstering a small drop-in chair seat and hisinsights into the trade will be invaluable. Fabriccoverings will be worked on during the final day.RICHARD RICARDOGILDING COURSES – please refer to theWinter 2012/13 programme for currentlypublished courses.Traditional water gilding techniquesMarch 15–18JUDY WETHERALLFurther courses will feature in the Winter2013/14 programme published in June 2013.DAVID BARRON is a member of the SussexGuild and makes furniture to commission. He alsocontributes articles to Furniture and Cabinet Makingmagazine, alongside selling his specialist hand tools.JOHN BERKELEY is a wood turner and puzzlemaker who previously worked as a restorer of metalantiques. His speciality boxes are featured in hisbook All Screwed Up, published in 2004.MARK CASS has worked with wood for over25 years as an antique furniture restorer, and acarpenter, manufacturing high-end kitchens andnumerous commissions. He also teaches regularlyand writes for magazines.PETER CLOTHIER works as a woodturner, woodcarver and sculptor, having studied sculpture at theCity and Guilds of London Art School. His bookSculpting in Wood, was published in 2007.MATHEW DART trained at London MetropolitanUniversity and since 1985 has been a professionalwoodwind instrument maker. Professional playersand academies use his instruments worldwide.JAMES MURSELL changed career in the 1990sto pursue his passion for Windsor chair making.He makes chairs to commission, and writes on thesubject, in addition he makes specialist chair makingtools.DAVE REGESTER began turning as a full-timeprofessional in 1974. He supplies his work tokitchenware shops and galleries. He teaches andwrites on his craft and demonstrates worldwide.RICHARD RICARDO runs a fine art upholsterybusiness in Oxfordshire. He works in both modernand antique styles, advising on and organisingspecialist repair work.PHIL SHIPLEY is a designer and maker of avariety of country chair styles. He has exhibitedat Westonbirt’s ‘Festival of the Tree’, and is anexperienced tutor in chair making for all abilities.COLIN SIMPSON is a professional woodturnerand regularly writes articles on the subject forWoodturning magazine. His turned bowls have oftenbeen sold in The National Trust’s shops.Nic WebbMusical instrument makingMaking woodwind instruments– recorders and folk flutesAugust 16–215D4006 | £507 | /Make either a cylindrical-bore descant recorderor a three-piece tapered-bore folk flutewith brass ferrules (both at modern pitch:A=440Hz). Learn techniques to bore and turnwooden billets to accurate size and shape, stainand polish. Then add skills to voice and tuneinto a working recorder or flute for playing earlymusic or contemporary folk.MATHEW DARTNORBERT GUTOWSKI is a specialist intraditional woodworking and decorative finishes,and is a furniture tutor for West Dean’s full-timeprogrammes in Furniture Conservation and Making.JOHN HILL is a picture framer and experiencedteacher. He has worked as a framer in the UK andBermuda, and has a keen interest in conservation.TOM KEALY studied at Parnham College. He makescommissioned furniture to his own designs and forother eminent designers, as well as teaching in theUK and USA.JO MABBUTT specialises in experimental surfacedecoration. She works on a variety of surfaces suchas paper, textiles and glass, and is developing rangesof gilded jewellery and interior accessories.TED VINCENT trained at the Royal College ofArt and for many years was a senior lecturer inthe School of Design at Kingston University. Hissculptural woodcarvings are regularly exhibited bothhere and in the USA.JON WARNES makes rustic furniture and livingwillow sculptures and regularly leads workshops infurniture making and willow work. He is the authorof Living Willow Sculpture.NIC WEBB graduated in fine art at the Universityof Brighton in 1994. Since then he has worked as apainter and maker and is passionate about workingwith wood. Nic’s work is exhibited worldwide.TOBY WINTERINGHAM designs and makescontemporary furniture from his own Norfolkbasedcompany, specialising in marquetry and finecabinetwork for public and private clients.0844 4994408 | bookingsoffice@westdean.org.uk | on-line booking at www.westdean.org.uk59