Alison is an experienced and talented cook and baker. Alongside The Oast Studio, she also runs her successful Oast Bakery, supplying local farm shops and cafe's with her much loved cakes. She provides all our classes with freshly baked treats and delicious home cooked lunches too.

Alison's genuine warmth and welcoming presence are the essence of The Oast Studio, and make it the place to be.                               

Annabelle first learned to sew at school where she was fortunate to have a creatively rich education. After graduating from art school, she went on to work as a graphic designer in design studios in London.

She now teaches a broad range of skills from sewing and crochet, to block printing and rug making. Her aim is to provide a space for people to be creative and find a calming atmosphere where they can thrive.

With a professional background in Stage & Costume design, Cecily Kate first discovered needle felting in California during a parent's evening at her son’s Kindergarden. Since then her commissions have made their way around world. She has honed her skills to become the expert we know today with an excellent eye for good form and detail. Cecily Kate has been needle felting professionally for over 14 years and we are blessed to have her on the team.

Nick Vane lives in Forest Row and is a basket maker with fifteen years experience of teaching groups both in supported-living and recreational pop-up workshop settings.  He uses traditional methods, materials and tools in his basketry and is a gentle and inspiring teacher.

His hope is that basket weaving should be enjoyable and could go on to become a fulfilling new hobby.

Nicoline styled dozens of Christmas trees at Selfridges, designed sets for theatre and created models & costumes for Madame Tussaud. With her eye for style and a wish to offer products that bring greater sustainability and creativity to everyday life, she is part of the team that is 'The Danes' selling beautiful Scandinavian lifestyle products. 

She is our Flower Queen, running all our  popular paper flower making classes. 

Ruth was first introduced to wet on wet painting as a child at school and later as a parent and in her work in early years settings. She recently completed her training in Transpersonal Arts in Therapy at Tobias School of Art in East Grinstead, where the wet on wet technique was used to explore emotions and creativity. As well as teaching she also works as an art therapist at Age UK and The Ashdown Hub.

Fiona has a passion for nature, flowers and art and is active in the artistic process, enjoying oil painting, knitting, stained glass and pottery in her spare time. She now has a business making dried flower wreaths along side her other work as Sports massage therapist and Alexander Technique teacher in S.E London. She has led workshops at the Paxtons Art centre in Crystal Palace, London and done many wreath commissions.