Welcome to my website hosted by www.textilearts.net. I am a textile mixed media artist living in Maidstone, Kent, and working both locally and internationally. The site is intended to give you a general overview of my current work and practice but feel free to contact me if you have any further questions. I make works both for commission and for public settings, freehanging mixed media textiles as well as smaller framed pieces which work in both traditional and contemporary settings. I am happy to work with references and materials as part of the process of making which may have significance to the commissioning person or project.
Domestic Bee
My work relates to the natural and built world around us and the elements that make it up. I like to use found materials as part of this process and am always looking at the environmental links and sustainable practice. I collaborate on projects including work with other artists and practioners, as a means to develop my studio practice and produce new work using a range of themes. By combining the advantages of photography and new media with textile and paper based work. I seek to push the boundaries between tradition and innovation and extend further my visual vocabulary. This work is exhibited in the U.K and abroad. (see my statement for further information).
I work in the public context, teaching and consultancy work as well as on commissions and art projects. Looking at new approaches to investigation as part of this process I seek to develop ideas and individual responses as part of visual arts experience. (see exhibitions and events for current projects and exhibitions).
In addition to exhibiting, I have written a book for Batsford publications, The Found Object in Textile Art. Publication date September of 2010.
The site's images and text are protected under copyright - please via email, to use or reproduce them.
Sparrow and Starling
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also
www.casholmes.blogspot.com
www.axisweb.org/artist/casholmes
www.casholmestextiles.co.uk
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