Says Tamsin, "After a 20 year career in the IT industry, with jobs spanning support, training, sales and marketing, training as a garden designer was a dream come true for me.  Escape from the corporate world, the chance to work with nice people, learning about plants and learning to draw.  It was a wonderful journey.  However, throughout my training, lovely as it was, there was a nagging doubt that there surely had to be a faster way to work and would I REALLY be able to earn a living doing this...  Once qualified, I started my business and began designing gardens for real. I was also invited to teach budding designers at Sparsholt College to combine my previous teaching experience with my newfound design skills.

My own Vectorworks journey began when a friend and design colleague, Jennifer Berry, maxed out and close to a deadline, contacted me to ask for help with a set of construction drawings.  I was maxed out too.  I had a copy of Vectorworks and suggested this would be a good time to learn whilst completing these drawings.  With the guidance of the 'Help system, I muddled through, completed the drawings over a weekend, and was HOOKED! The next step was a planting plan - small, I grant you, but completed ready to print in just a couple of hours.  There was no turning back..."

With the interest in Vectorworks growing across the industry, it wasn't long before Tamsin was asked to write a course.  She did, it went well... and now works full time training other designers in the delights or working faster, more efficiently and finishing drawings before the early hours of the deadline day!  With hundreds of people trained since May 2007 clearly the time is right for designers to make the move to Vectorworks. Author of Residential Garden Design with Vectorworks Landmark (commissioned by Nemetschek North America), Tamsin is also the Vectorworks trainer for the Oxford College of Garden Design.  We run one to one training, or group training can be organised if this is your preference. We run masterclasses covering specific topics in-depth. We also supply Vectorworks 2010 software and Adrian Slatter has joined to handle this side of the business.

We're delighted to announce that our team has grown.  In order to satisfy the huge demand for Vectorworks training, we are now a team of three. Two other trainers are part of our team and have been carefully selected because they have the right combination of skills to get you up and running in a relaxed and friendly way. We all use the same training materials, which are developed by Tamsin. Read more about our trainers here:

• Jennifer Berry
• Jackie Kaas

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