Welcome to my website hosted by www.textilearts.net. I'm an artist, teacher and author living in the UK working in textiles and mixed media. I create stitch and collage textiles and like to use discarded items, waste material no longer considered useful. These I tear, and cut, until they are re-assembled to create something more meaningful. Looking at translucent layers, connecting paint, mark and print with the found surfaces of fabrics and papers, my work is informed by the 'hidden' or often overlooked parts of our landscape, and personal spaces. I am interested in the relationship with domestic interiors and outside spaces, the views from our windows, the verges of our roadsides, field edges and the places where our gardens meet the 'greater landscape.' Working with 'stitch sketching', I seek to capture a moment or thing before it is gone. (See my statement for further information.)
Green Square
I work in the public context, teaching and consultancy work as well as on exhibitions and art projects, seeking to develop ideas and individual responses as part of the visual arts experience. In addition to exhibiting and teaching, my book, The Found Object in Textile Art (Batsford publications 2010), looks at practical, environmental and sustainable practice for the textile artist.
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Sparrow and Starling
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www.casholmes.blogspot.com
www.axisweb.org/artist/casholmes
www.casholmestextiles.co.uk
www.facebook.com/casholmes
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