Lorena Zurbano is a musician, a qualified primary teacher with QTS, and holds a Master's degree in Education. She is also a dedicated PAT volunteer and the founder and facilitator at Meta for learning.
Lorena is enthusiastic about integrating permaculture principles into the field of education, promoting sustainability, holistic learning, and ecological awareness.
As part of a distance-learning Masters degree in association with FUNIBER and the Universidad de León, Lorena conducted an ethnographic action research project, known as Community Language Learning. This approach places learners in charge of determining the content through meaningful conversations, incorporating translation, transcription, and recording techniques, foregoing the need for a syllabus or textbook.
Tim Baynes has been painting and print making over the last thirty years. Tim lives in Whiltshire and is married to a gardener. His two favourite flowers both live in London. His inspiration comes both from landscape and urban life. Early work is drawn from his travelling when work for Microsoft and the BBC. Now Whitshire and West Wales stimulate his work.
More recently collaborating with architect-photographer Trevor Clapp on the project Curious Coast A celebration of the Seaside and sideways look at Kent and Essex coastal marvels has provided a rich source of material from which to paint.
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Collections and Galleries
Tim’s work is held in collections in private collections in the UK, France, Australia and the USA. He has shown at the Circus and Oakley Galleries in London.
His work can be seen online at http://www.timbaynesart.co.uk where people are welcome to down load mini books on some of Tim’s work.
Andrew Tidmarsh is an established director of theatre and short films, winning a Shortcutz London award for The Babysitter. His books include An Attitude for Acting: How to Survive and Thrive as an Actor (written with Dr Tara Swart) and Genre: Guide to Writing for Stage and Screen.
Andrew has worked as course director of RADA’s Foundation Course and Drama Centre London’s MA in European Classical Acting, and as an associate tutor on the MA in Playwriting at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has also taught acting for dancers at the English National Ballet, text, voice and scene study at Shakespeare’s Globe and rehearsal processes and techniques for TV and film at Wimbledon Theatre.
Andrew holds a BA (Hons) in English and German and an MA in Text and Performance Studies (with distinction) from King's College London and RADA.
At Meta4L Andrew facilitates workshops according to the principles of Self Managed Learning as developed by Ian Cunningham, and has seen first hand the rewards that this way of working brings both to the participants and to the facilitator.
Since January 2023 Andrew is devoting all his time to a doctorate in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy.
Sarah Fearnely is our Design and Technology blended learning mentor.
Founder of Wildlings Forest & Beach School.
