Rachel Larkins is a tutor on the FDAD programme and has been teaching short courses at West Dean since 2017. She has also taught on the foundation course at an internationally recognised arts university for over fifteen years, alongside her freelance practice. Rachel holds a distinction level masters in sequential design / illustration from Brighton University following an early training in textile art (BA Hons). Rachel's work encompasses drawing and narrative sculptures and is held in numerous private collections. It has featured at The Design Museum and Automates Galeries, Brussels. Media coverage includes Crafts, Elle and Weekend Telegraph.

Tiffany Robinson, MA, is the programme coordinator and tutor for the Foundation Art and Design programmes at West Dean College. Tiffany makes enquiries in and with nature to better understand ‘other’ realities beyond the constructed views of the world and Self. Her interests in psychology, mythology, and nature inform her work and process. Through observation and interpretation, questions are ‘walked with’ and responses gathered in drawing, writing, audio, film and photography. Unconscious or intangible ideas and forms appear and the work often has a dreamlike quality, presenting glimpses of the ancestral, cultural, and personal, in new forms. Tiffany uses natural materials such as egg tempera, charcoal, chalk gesso, the artworks can be identified with location and experience of place, often as metaphor and myth. There is a re-enchantment in the relationship with nature and materials.