Meet our tutors - Helen Easter

Helen Easter, our fascinating Art tutor, has always been the one to draw and paint as a child. She recollects sneaking into the local art school on the way home from her regular school, just to take a peek at the creative process. Being dyslexic during that time, it was not possible for Helen to join a fine art course. So, she settled on a design course whilst doing four classes a week with Kent Adult Education in Folkestone and learning Printmaking, Pottery, Art History and Life Drawing. Soon enough, recognising her talent, she was offered to train to be a tutor in her mid-twenties. That was well over 30 years ago and she's still passing on tips and tricks to enable as many people as possible to discover the joy of creating art.

Helen loves teaching and helping students gain skills they never thought they could truly master. A firm believer in practice, she focuses her courses on 'doing' rather than theory. She shows her learners different mediums and encourages them to experiment and work with them. As Helen says: "I'm not a teacher - I'm an artist who will show you how to do it".