NeedleXChange: Cas Holmes
NeedleXChange Episode 4 is with Cas Holmes. Cas is one of the UK’s favourite textile artists, a respected teacher and author of numerous embroidered art books.
NeedleXChange Episode 4 is with Cas Holmes. Cas is one of the UK’s favourite textile artists, a respected teacher and author of numerous embroidered art books.
Textile Landscape: Painting with Cloth in Mixed Media by Cas Holmes is an inspirational exploration of the landscape as subject matter in a wide range of textile art forms.
Pre CO-VID19 this book would have not come into exitance, its content not there to be inspired by in the first place and thus written about. Yet the pandemic happened and Cas Holmes as an experienced and celebrated textile practitioner shows through visual evidence how we can move forward and use what we have, not what we have to travel far and wide to glean. Within this textile art publication, she heads a new way of working, a new way of thinking and living our artistic existence out to the full.
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I have followed artist Hannah Lamb’s work for a number of years so was delighted to be invited to review her beautiful book ‘Poetic Cloth by
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