Cas
Holmes
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My work has always been informed by personal experience, places visited, stories of my Romany grandmother, old and forgotten textiles.
A research trip to India supported by Arts Council, allowed me the time to start exploring new avenues for my work. I was immersed in exotic images, colours and landscape totally alien to my upbringing and experience, yet in my childhood I remember similar colours in the surroundings of my grandmother's home and objects collected. I needed to examine my response and to make connections between my current practice and this evolvement, exploring the cultural links between the North Indian art and decoration and those of my own Romany heritage within a broader cultural context.
I continue to remain deeply interested in environmental implications. Impressive physical changes to the land from building, farming, flooding, the normal cycle of the weather raises issues about our fragile relationship with the local and global environment. I often found myself picking up useful items from the rubbish in the streets, odd bits of fabric, an old label and often sat down to exchange stitch ideas and look at woodblocks being used to paint henna on women's hand and feet. Found materials gathered in India are combined with donated waste silks, fabric and paper from UK, and have been re-assembled into large wall hangings, more intimate textile canvases and objects. Installations of stitched translucent panels offers space for contemplation and reflection.
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Journal at Guildford House Gallery, Recycled by Design
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Marigold 1 and 2 in Showroom, Quilt Italia
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Work in Showroom, Quilt Italia. Bluebell and Through Lace Walls
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Fen
Material Values exhibition
Tunbridge Wells Museum
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Fen
Material Values exhibition
Tunbridge Wells Museum
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Fen
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Material Values exhibition
Tunbridge Wells Museum
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Souls
and Feather Quilt
Material Values exhibition
Tunbridge Wells Museum
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Souls
and Feather Quilt (detail)
Material Values exhibition
Tunbridge Wells Museum
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Commission,
Royal University Hospital, Place
in Time
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Commission,
Royal University Hospital, Place
in Time (detail)
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Sketchbook
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Sketchbook
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Rose Beyond Borders
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Rose Beyond Borders
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As
the Crow Flies
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Marsh
Grass
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Counting
Crows
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Counting
Crows (detail)
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Imago
Exhibition, Ramsgate Library Gallery
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Riverhouse
Gallery, Walton on Thames
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Breaking
the Surface - The Metropole Galleries,
Folkestone
Exhibition of installations
and mixed media hangings with
supporting educational workshops.
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Indigo
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Nocturne
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After
the Rain
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After
the Rain detail
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Fishing
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Fishing
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Deep
Blue
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Pendulous
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Break-water
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Break-water
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Break-water
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Marsh-Lands
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Blue
Grass
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Blue
Grass detail
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Red
Herring
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Red Herring
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Works
in both private and public
commission. Prices from £70.00.
Details available on request. I
also have work in public collections
in the U.K. and overseas including:
Arts Council, South East, Craft Collection
Hove Museum and Art Gallery
Japanese Paper Museum, Tokyo
Maidstone Hospital
Museum of Art and Design, New York
Norfolk and Norwich Hospital
Princess Royal Hospital. Bromley
Quilt und Art Gallery, Frankfurt
Schroder Finance, London |
