LECTURES & GUEST SPEAKERS

PRINCIPAL TUTOR Nigel L Philips FSGD MIHort Nigel Philips trained at Merrist Wood College and has been practicing garden design professionally since 1981. He has carried out a wide range of commissions from modern town gardens and corporate courtyards to the more traditional landscaping of large country estates and an award winning Chelsea garden. His experience has afforded him a Fellowship with the Society of Garden Designers, an organisation set up to verify professional design service to clients. He is also a member of the Institute of Horticulture. His broad knowledge and enthusiasm for garden design and garden history is apparent in his designs and has led him naturally to teaching which he has been doing for the last 10 years.

Miriam Book BSc PhD MSGD is a very experienced practicing garden designer and plants woman who will be responsible for the soft landscape modules on the course. Her plant knowledge which stretches to degree in botany and a PhD in genetics combined with her extensive teaching experience and design skills will give the student a good depth of understanding and firm base from which to follow on with their own planting designs.

Jill Billington BA(Hons)(Fine Arts) FSGD has now established herself as a prolific author in the field of garden design and brings to the course inspirational and creative ideas for both design and planting.

Nick Dexter MSGD is an expert in 2D and 3D computer programmes and brings these skills to the course as a practicing garden designer

Sarah Ashworth is also a practicing garden designer who will bring to the course her skills in computer graphics and help students during the design studio sessions.

Michael Shackleton is a lighting designer to the garden design industry and through his company, Ornamental Garden Lighting, has vast experience in both public and private spaces.

Martin Kelly is in charge of delivering lectures on water and how this relates to garden design. His own business, Fairwater Ltd. is a well respected National and International company.

GUEST SPEAKERS
Anthony Archer-Wills, Anthony Paul FSGD, John Brookes FSGD, Andy Sturgeon, Debbie Roberts MSGD and Ian Smith MSGD of Acres Wild, Miriam Book MSGD and Peter Thurman have contributed to lectures in the past and brought to the course their own unique approach to garden design.