Kate Burgess
After studying applied arts, she has enjoyed introducing her love of colour, and themes of travel, landscape and the coast, to small groups and classes. Kate often uses an artists work for creative inspiration, so that we can explore a…
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Kathryn Brooks
Kathryn Brooks Hughes is an historian of the American 1960s, and a doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh. She specialises in Vietnam War-era protest, and its intersection with the counterculture movement of the late 1960s, and the nascent feminism…
James Willis
James is a highly motivated artist and arts educator with over 20 years of teaching and management experience. He has taught fine art and art history at all levels from GNVQ1 to final year BA degree. He founded the Letchworth…
Katherine Alcock
Katherine is a historian and London Blue Badge Tourist Guide who lectures on a wide variety of topics, in particular the history and architecture of London. She graduated from Queens’ College, Cambridge University, in 2011, before turning her back on…
Collette Hoefkens
Collette is a professional artist and gallery proprietor. She was taught Fine Art to Foundation level and qualified from the Hertfordshire college of Art and Design in 1985. She later qualified as a Further Education Tutor at North Herts College.…
Tim Parrott
Tim Parrott took his degree at Cambridge then worked as a schoolteacher before specialising in explaining Popular Science to general audiences. In addition to Cosmology, Physics and Evolutionary Biology, he also teaches courses on architectural structure, always with a view…
Adrian Poynton
Adrian Poynton is an award-winning writer. His work has covered all mediums from fiction and non-fiction, television, theatre, radio and live performance and his passion to transfer his knowledge of storytelling to new writers is unmatched. Much of Adrian’s work…
Mike Rollins
Mike is an award-winning artist living in Hitchin. His expressive style of painting has its origins in the stark landscapes of West Yorkshire, where he grew up, and in subsequent years as an attraction designer. Mike is also an art…
Hazel Godfrey
Hazel is a contemporary basket-maker and willow artist, her inspiration comes from nature and the human condition. Graduating in 2004 with a degree in Applied Arts 3D Media she began working professionally in 2008. Hazel works with willow and various…
Andrea Burden
Andrea studied Photography at the University of Derby, graduating in 1994. She has worked as a professional photographer and photographic printer. Andrea started teaching photography 25 years ago and currently tutors for Open College of the Arts. She made her…
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