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CANDIDA CAVE
Trained at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. She has taught History of Art since the founding of the College and over the past twenty years more than 60% of students have achieved grades A or B at A level. She is also a professional playwright with her recent plays being performed at the Royal Academy, the British Museum, The National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain, London Theatres and for the British Council in Florence, Bologna and Rome.

NICHOLAS COCHRANE
Trained at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, before working for several years in the Old Master Department at Christies. He is Head of the Art Department with wide experience of teaching drawing and painting at A level as well as on pre-Foundation and Portfolio courses which prepare students for Art school. He is a practising artist and is registered with the Royal Society of Portrait painters. In 1999 he won the Prince of Wales's Award for Portrait Drawing.

"The creation of a successful learning environment, in which students develop and flourish,
owes much to the vision, conviction and leadership provided by the joint Principals."
Ofsted Report January 2005