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Cas Holmes
Cas Homes studied in Fine Art, Maidstone College of Art (UCA) in the eighties before a further study in Japanese art, textiles and papermaking in Japan under a Japan Foundation Fellowship and a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship. She is a tutor at West Dean College alongside other adult education and community projects. Cas has also published work including; Textile Landscape, The Found Object in Textile Art, Stitch Stories, and Connected Cloth.
Describe your approach to teaching:
I am hands-on, experimental with a strong emphasis on using found
materials and inventive applications of textile and mixed media
processes as part of the exploration of developing a 'creative
language'
What inspires your own work?
Space, Place and Trace... landscape and the world within my
footsteps. Visual, social, as well as climatic change. Ideas
expressed with found materials, paint, cloth and stitch gathered as
travel and work.