Cas Holmes is a textile artist loved by art teachers. Using techniques that can be replicated in the classroom, she is an ideal to use with students.
War and Gardens, Garden Museum and Age UK Bromley and Greenich Images kind permission of the Garden Museum and johonephotography ...
Cas Holmes is a textile artist loved by art teachers. Using techniques that can be replicated in the classroom, she is an ideal to use with students.
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THIS IS THE 8TH OF A SERIES OF INTERVIEWS AS INSPIRATION. I'M INVITING PEOPLE I ADMIRE; ARTISTS, AUTHORS, PEOPLE I KNOW, AND PEOPLE I DON...
Pani Kekkavva. Commissioned by the Romani Cultural and Arts Company for Gypsy Maker 4 Cas Holmes uses found materials, paint, cloth and sti...
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Cas Holmes is a textile artist loved by art teachers. Using techniques that can be replicated in the classroom, she is an ideal to use with students.
Spring sunshine and wet earth Dit is een van de werken van Cas Holmes Omdat ik een grote fan van haar ben, ben ik natuurlijk heel gelukkig dat ze in het najaar in Museum de Kantfabriek exposeert en bij die gelegenheid ook een twee daagse workshop geeft op 13 en 14 december. Er zijn nog enkele plaatsen vrij. Je kunt haar werk binnenkort in de Kantfabriek bekijken, ik geef nog wel aan wanneer, maar ik laat hier alvast wat foto's zien. These are some works of Cas Holmes. Because i'm a big fan of her work i'm happy to announce her workshop on 13 and 14 decembre in Museum de Kantfabriek. Her work will also be on show there. Red berries Red bowl Imperfect plant
A brilliant weekend workshop led by Cas Holmes. We started by making a collagraph plate with thin card, and I decided to use this fuchsia flower image for mine. In the middle of the above image is my collagraph plate, but by this time I had used a selection of dark acrylic paints on the surface, so the detail isn't showing here. I had also added a key and a keyhole cover in brass, for a contrast to the flower shape. We also layered up our prints with a selection of papers and fabrics, holding them together with Cas's technique using watery wallpaper paste. They were left to dry over night, and then we spent the following day working into them with hand and machine stitch. Above, before stitch was added, and below after. These were all just experimental pieces, but I was very pleased with the results from the collagraph printing, A technique new to me. My second piece, showing a detailed close-up of the stitching. Cas also encouraged us to consider the back of our work, because it can sometimes give very pleasing results. Not too sure about my piece below though! Above, the results of a very interesting experiment where we had to draw the person sitting opposite us without taking our pencil from the papers surface, and keeping our eyes on the face without looking at our paper. I think I've created the next alien for Doctor Who!!! I decided that I really wanted to own a piece of art by Cas Holmes. so bought the small Water Iris you see above. I'm really thrilled with it, and can't wait to put it in a frame and hang it on a wall. Below, is the back view of it, and every bit as interesting as the front, but without the colour. Today, I just had to have another play with this, new to me technique, and made a small plate (below), from the sketch in my sketchbook above. I think the image below has worked quite well. This one has been layered up with some other bits, and I will hopefully stitch into it tomorrow when the paste has dried. Above, is a totally different textile that I finished today. It is for a challenge called 'All in a days work', and is A3 size. There never seems to be enough time in any day for me to do everything I want to do, so I thought that the inner workings of a clockwork piece would fit the bill! It's certainly a huge contrast from what I did at the weekend, but at least it will hopefully keep me from getting stuck in a rut! This is the second workshop I've attended led by Cas Holmes, and all I can say is that personally, I find her an extremely inspirational teacher, and someone who encourages a very relaxed, serendipitous attitude to the techniques that she teaches. If you get the chance, I can thoroughly recommend one of her classes.
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Cas Holmes is a textile artist loved by art teachers. Using techniques that can be replicated in the classroom, she is an ideal to use with students.
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Working today with Cas Holmes as guide and inspiration at Bilston Craft Gallery was a transformatory experience. I have been moving in this direction recently -a mode of patched, upcycled, repurposed paper and fabric - and this was a wonderful consolidation day. I am enthralled by the use of paper made into cloth by the Momigami technique from Japan, where the paper is scrunched time and time again and "fed" with oil. It becomes almost like chamois leather in softness. I could then hand and machine stitch into it with ease. I believe the Japanese layer this and make a certain style of clothing from it. Paper was once made from rag and pulp and we are turning it back to cloth again this way. The above image uses only three papers - a waxed batik type paper, a magazine page and a photocopy of some ancient Japanese brown manuscript. There is a little cream lace too. I am going to work on this further and create another piece from the off-cuts from this one. Cas Holmes has written a wonderful book: Many of these techniques are covered in here. Below are some images from others in the group: Thank you Cas - you inspired all of us!
Welcome to my shop. Prices include U.K standard P&P only. Please contact me to check availability, international shipping and to arrange payment. Larger pieces and work to commission exam…
Pani Kekkavva. Commissioned by the Romani Cultural and Arts Company for Gypsy Maker 4 Cas Holmes uses found materials, paint, cloth and sti...
Embroidering the Everyday Working as a ‘nomad at home’, Cas invites us to re-examine the world around us and use the limitations sometimes ...
Cas Holmes is a textile artist loved by art teachers. Using techniques that can be replicated in the classroom, she is an ideal to use with students.
