Jane Ducarreaux
Jane’s passion for glass has been a lifelong one, having been surrounded by glass since birth. Both parents worked in the glass industry – her father as a master glass blower, her mother as a glass finisher. Having tried many…
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Michael Williams
Michael Williams has an undergraduate degree in History and an MSc in Politics. For 21 years he worked as a ministerial adviser in Whitehall before leaving for academic life in 1995. He spent another 26 years teaching a great variety…
Amy Wilson
Amy has over 25 years’ experience in fabric design and has been weaving for the past 16 years. After graduating from embroidered textiles for Fashion degree at the London College of Fashion in 2003, she went on to establish her…
Nade Simmons
Nade is an award winning contemporary textile artist who holds a Bachelor of Arts in Applied Arts. In 2020 Nade won a bursary with The School of Stitched Textiles studying Hand Embroidery and was accepted into the prestigious Society for…
Jill Winch
Jill is a Fellow of The Society of Botanical Artists and has written two books on how to achieve success with drawing and working with colour. Jill has been teaching the subject of Botanicals for over 15 years and is…
Lesley Ayres
Lesley studied Psychology at the University of Wolverhampton and then went on to gain her MSc in Occupational and Organisational Psychology from the University of East London. Later she gained her PGCE and is passionate about teaching Psychology as a…
Lucy Sugden
Lucy is a woven tapestry artist from Letchworth Garden City, who graduated from Middlesex University with a Constructed Textiles degree specialising in tapestry weaving. After spending most of her career developing and delivering art education to the community, schools, and…
Marine Boulter
Originally from France, Marine moved to England 25 years ago. Her two children are now grown up and both live in Manchester. Over the years although she has taught at Primary school level in after-school clubs, she have mostly been…
Ada Marini
Ada has been a passionate language tutor for over 20 years. She is Italian, from Rome, born in Abruzzo, and studied English and French languages, from the age of 11. Qualifications include the Cambridge English Proficiency, Language Teaching to Adults…
Abigail Huffer
A love of languages is what caused Abigail to become a teacher of Foreign Languages. Having lived in both Germany and Italy as part of her language degree, she completed a PGCE in Secondary Modern Language teaching at the Institute…
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