tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18100888730888696522024-03-13T14:37:49.093+00:00cas holmes artist and author at casholmes.co.ukCas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.comBlogger227125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-54517188371747651752024-03-11T19:06:00.000+00:002024-03-11T19:06:09.164+00:00Heart of Kent Hospice Auction and Fibre Arts Takes Two Course<p> </p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 26px; line-height: 32.5px; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18px; outline: none !important;"><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; outline: none !important;">This is a detail of Dandelion, if you fancy getting your hands on this original piece of work? I’ve donated it to the Art of Kent Auction for Heart of Kent Hospice. The money raised will help the Hospice continue to offer outstanding care in our local community. The Auction opens Tuesday 12th until 14th March Register your interest and see all the art donated by Kentish artists (and a few celebrities to boot) at: <a href="https://www.hokh.org/event/art-of-kent-auction-2024/">HOKH Website </a></span></span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoHneAjXSiJus8Cfnof9chn-Nxbbszm0SflXvl6NcZmvozY7M-6ZWYNHXg_FQe7Dxle5BwbSFUr0P_8Hz90OT6GG09j3QGG-c3Jayc8u7RPn0D52peD0EnuqijtnFxSDmC1GxzeeWYcN2ZpHUHsJRL9pzD_OTQIFjp53rLn6fKd86rg1I72Ez-4wAdziY/s1553/Screenshot%202024-03-11%2018.49.52.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="1553" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoHneAjXSiJus8Cfnof9chn-Nxbbszm0SflXvl6NcZmvozY7M-6ZWYNHXg_FQe7Dxle5BwbSFUr0P_8Hz90OT6GG09j3QGG-c3Jayc8u7RPn0D52peD0EnuqijtnFxSDmC1GxzeeWYcN2ZpHUHsJRL9pzD_OTQIFjp53rLn6fKd86rg1I72Ez-4wAdziY/w640-h333/Screenshot%202024-03-11%2018.49.52.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-size: 18px;">I am delighted to announce that <a href="https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/courses/casholmes">Making Connection with Fibre Arts Takes TTwo</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/courses/casholmes"> </a>opens for enrolment on the 29th of March.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 18px; outline: none !important;"><em style="outline: none !important;">"Creating meaningful art allows you to connect with your audience on a deeper level, evoking emotions and sparking conversations that can leave a lasting impact. It allows you to express your unique perspective and tell a story through your art, making it more personal and relatable.<br /></em></span><span style="font-size: 18px; outline: none !important;"><em style="outline: none !important;">Cas Holmes understands the importance of creating a dialogue with the materials you use. She creates artwork layered with meaning by piecing together somewhat disparate materials so they can weave in their own history onto the work and ultimately stimulate the viewer’s imagination.<br /></em></span><span style="font-size: 18px; outline: none !important;"><em style="outline: none !important;">Cas also knows that before you unlock your creativity and elevate your artistry, first you must be willing to take a risk."<br /></em></span><span style="font-size: 18px; outline: none !important;"> (Fibre Art Takes Two)</span></span></p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; outline: none !important;"><br style="outline: none !important;" /><img height="442" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcusercontent.com%2F28a33d21ffb5ab198f1b10396%2Fimages%2F146950d8-a8e7-7138-9758-8bd3f60428a4.png&t=1710182039&ymreqid=4ee5b980-02f0-e55e-1c97-ef000101f300&sig=iDHA03BMuxdc_mx4U1tFfA--~D" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 442px; outline: none; text-indent: -9999px; width: 800px;" width="800" /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18px; outline: none !important;">For all updates on exhibitions and teaching including a unique opportunity to work with me in the <a href="https://www.soulstirmagic.com/franceretreat">South of France in June </a>and short Expressive Drawing courses with <a href="https://www.kentadulteducation.co.uk/search-results/?search=Cas+holmes">Kent Adult Education </a>in April and May please see t<a href="https://casholmes.uk/">he links on my website.</a></span><br style="outline: none !important;" /> </p><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; outline: none !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-77321273580233902122024-02-11T15:40:00.038+00:002024-02-12T13:15:25.547+00:00Interview with Rob Smith , Storytellers and teaching<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Reflection on talking, teaching and the power of our voices, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6eHVp7nAuo"> interview with Rob Smith </a>as part of Storytellers which continues at the <a href="https://canterburymuseums.co.uk/the-beaney/">Beaney Museum in Canterbury </a>until Sunday 25th February. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPTkpkeoFgoHgDpdUROVTSdY5LmmL7_lGNFbi4kyrJBRj7ZBmRfnoYbceXV9T-iy_6yXw8oceFPkdaVtwEkrNfsd3KG7EH1BXnAy_PhLUh_AcZA9gZPeSsRuisXrStWkYB7OV-21qGfJOLz-YiUQZQlFJhJXii9MYMYeD1WHzt_BKbG1ved90gvzrcsps/s738/Storyteller%20Rob%20Smith%20photo%20Nathalie%20Banaigs.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="738" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPTkpkeoFgoHgDpdUROVTSdY5LmmL7_lGNFbi4kyrJBRj7ZBmRfnoYbceXV9T-iy_6yXw8oceFPkdaVtwEkrNfsd3KG7EH1BXnAy_PhLUh_AcZA9gZPeSsRuisXrStWkYB7OV-21qGfJOLz-YiUQZQlFJhJXii9MYMYeD1WHzt_BKbG1ved90gvzrcsps/w640-h640/Storyteller%20Rob%20Smith%20photo%20Nathalie%20Banaigs.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Photo courtesy of Nathalie Banaigs</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Rob Smith former BBC News presenter and journalist now runs his own company <a href="https://www.wildrovermedia.com/">Wild Rover Media </a>and brings and his interviewing skills leads to a discussion which explore my story, from growing up in Norfolk with Romani heritage to my transition from being a painter to primarily working with cloth, and later to my role as 'artist-carer'.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNOTlvGgAqTV-_51_7VtiZKc5qDzv_ERzcNtknc5KVRUGi3fx1NehqLCo8O3n5XKfhzKiMzpm1Dhrw7PP0OFuULPbm3q7SOvAu84np9xOrmO9FCWrEEqgIAiHBmN3LZDBIVpWE59kBmV8JuhTgkmVb6War7LUifLzUFTqPC5MotusPf0MRJUN07ITveY0/s4032/Memory%20Cas%20Holmes%20pic%20Shelley%20Ganderton%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNOTlvGgAqTV-_51_7VtiZKc5qDzv_ERzcNtknc5KVRUGi3fx1NehqLCo8O3n5XKfhzKiMzpm1Dhrw7PP0OFuULPbm3q7SOvAu84np9xOrmO9FCWrEEqgIAiHBmN3LZDBIVpWE59kBmV8JuhTgkmVb6War7LUifLzUFTqPC5MotusPf0MRJUN07ITveY0/w480-h640/Memory%20Cas%20Holmes%20pic%20Shelley%20Ganderton%20(2).jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505;">It was a privilege to have been invited to take part in Storytellers by </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv xzsf02u x1s688f" href="https://www.facebook.com/nathalie.banaigs?__cft__[0]=AZW4DAiulwzoyoEx3HjHXe4oCr2Ez_7joKXGlWQ3SZkW_mbNez1X9J_C-6HCWGxoFSjxvVdkXQHBHfjwOtBTruPUA-cYSPvIbAVbK_b-Gd_lJFSJfAgfon7em73zE-jcfPbPjVmFLodVHzAG1unJ3s2Ru74Y1u5-oK0XiB-_acxrYQ&__tn__=R]-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: #f0f2f5; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline;">Nathalie Banaigs</span></a><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505;">. of <a href="https://kentcreative.org/">Kent Creative. </a>Powerful curation which adds another dimension to the how artworks can be interpreted in a museum and gallery context. Each artist has created imaginative work with voices that communicate on so many levels. (Thankyou Shelley Ganderton for the photograph of Memory in the image above)</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I will be in the gallery to talk about my work Memory from 2pm on Sunday 25th if you want to pop in and say hello. </span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Gypsy Makers Tour</span></h3><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiP5xfeCzGp1ZoN6a9aNWZYAbc0ePfIBnLUmSb1K2vBN6JrBlzyXXuvc61q28QMOSJGgbu4C6b6ESIn12kmxXqU8ukN4WeQ_wHhD1bM1GkeHJvYFvwDll-mmPCKdF9gHYbfMAuiuBJB8bsV0oz16TnIjrYwmHw8V0h0L8OxlO5YFydCOMEdJjgyYkvBMQ/s8240/24.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4918" data-original-width="8240" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiP5xfeCzGp1ZoN6a9aNWZYAbc0ePfIBnLUmSb1K2vBN6JrBlzyXXuvc61q28QMOSJGgbu4C6b6ESIn12kmxXqU8ukN4WeQ_wHhD1bM1GkeHJvYFvwDll-mmPCKdF9gHYbfMAuiuBJB8bsV0oz16TnIjrYwmHw8V0h0L8OxlO5YFydCOMEdJjgyYkvBMQ/w640-h382/24.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi19m4f0LGofzCZbftpGl8gmBvFubIUslqUPYwG1mU9hRHlvSZahMbtS3jpNd1iTMBAOEp4eg5RhWNTGyXUxIbVdXphzUX2op0he2Zv7qer-_ruS1H_ccOUx6ef2_615dNvf9YZ57yE35r1XTJiUCWgBAZhVAwnW4tGAhdaS4Fkd9K7I4V-qgf06v_vwYM/s8256/64.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5504" data-original-width="8256" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi19m4f0LGofzCZbftpGl8gmBvFubIUslqUPYwG1mU9hRHlvSZahMbtS3jpNd1iTMBAOEp4eg5RhWNTGyXUxIbVdXphzUX2op0he2Zv7qer-_ruS1H_ccOUx6ef2_615dNvf9YZ57yE35r1XTJiUCWgBAZhVAwnW4tGAhdaS4Fkd9K7I4V-qgf06v_vwYM/w640-h426/64.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Cultivate Cas Holmes photo by Harry Meadley</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I am delighted to have some 'new for from old pieces' in Gypsy Makers - An exhibition of new and existing artworks from the <a href="https://www.romaniarts.co.uk/tag/gypsy-maker/">Romani Cultural and Arts Compan</a>y art collection, marking the tenth anniversary of the ground-breaking <a href="https://www.typawb.wales/">Gypsy Maker project at Ty Pawb in Wrexham until 30th March</a>, before moving on to </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://g39.org/">g39, Cardiff </a>– 10th April to 25th May 2024. Most of my works were created from destroyed, re-used and recreated pieces. A metaphor tor rebuilding and resilience.</span></span></p><h3><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Teaching and Workshops:Finding the Balance</span></h3><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM2-7m3IFxaKFmAL9v8BX27y9j3gP3MLEhMM-n9vQ6DoFgIKSqGvuErdKVgdcHVWnG_ToGWjDsU-NmJf9xnmDHz0SHLr7Wl2G1cNl0Bt1rD_4kEKVYShXHweQTF2GICc4qD6DQJdXXTEDiPQ3dwoTrcl4Jot21rnA3X3lyQWEzYomU4s9YJKIcMTSMoB8/s685/Screenshot%20(22).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="680" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM2-7m3IFxaKFmAL9v8BX27y9j3gP3MLEhMM-n9vQ6DoFgIKSqGvuErdKVgdcHVWnG_ToGWjDsU-NmJf9xnmDHz0SHLr7Wl2G1cNl0Bt1rD_4kEKVYShXHweQTF2GICc4qD6DQJdXXTEDiPQ3dwoTrcl4Jot21rnA3X3lyQWEzYomU4s9YJKIcMTSMoB8/w636-h640/Screenshot%20(22).png" width="636" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Image: Wild Winter Gardens. On-line course with West Dean College</span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Finally, I am finding the balance between the Care-Create aspects of my work and am finding creative solutions to organising teaching and workshops with my educational and learning partners. True, I am doing less teaching now but it still remains important to me as part of my practice. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgjPXQCC_taK26dcwI-KWFeCkank0KLXnc18FTg-FCQh6qGj3HsE_M3oksC7EsaWKwiuK_RMnAsTEwyOIbn3ZM8IdXGUyIG6oQW7a-61pGzsbXYLnB2BDaS2gDmv4cb6KAD7NXdKFY1m0u6Ah8YChv1NEIi1uY804ezA8WtKViN3VwfHpcVVo0sWS3TZM/s1698/Screenshot%20(24).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1060" data-original-width="1698" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgjPXQCC_taK26dcwI-KWFeCkank0KLXnc18FTg-FCQh6qGj3HsE_M3oksC7EsaWKwiuK_RMnAsTEwyOIbn3ZM8IdXGUyIG6oQW7a-61pGzsbXYLnB2BDaS2gDmv4cb6KAD7NXdKFY1m0u6Ah8YChv1NEIi1uY804ezA8WtKViN3VwfHpcVVo0sWS3TZM/w640-h400/Screenshot%20(24).png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Screenshot of my pc</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnBqzRL5XVOesXpOXNHShODfxVictiOZgMlgWeXdgvK-DrxaAljrJwvMIsyZROTy7S_kc-ZufvATo3pN8JgjypgGdKQqoxtnu-2WeHKGiL9pbfHsji8DY1StPJiIqP4K1IiAzb1BqV66P0xyeAo-mcTQ3NvV1P_w22n-iEk1qARVd6Rz6sfKy65rIyEIY/s3665/PXL_20240211_133936600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2727" data-original-width="3665" height="475" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnBqzRL5XVOesXpOXNHShODfxVictiOZgMlgWeXdgvK-DrxaAljrJwvMIsyZROTy7S_kc-ZufvATo3pN8JgjypgGdKQqoxtnu-2WeHKGiL9pbfHsji8DY1StPJiIqP4K1IiAzb1BqV66P0xyeAo-mcTQ3NvV1P_w22n-iEk1qARVd6Rz6sfKy65rIyEIY/w640-h475/PXL_20240211_133936600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">WIP laid out for demonstration</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I run courses online by invitation and am currently in the middle of a Stitch-Sketch-Book workshop with a USA group I work with on a regular basis. As you can see by the images working via Zoom demands a good deal of flexibility on my part, it allows me to continue teaching but also allows learners to have access to learning with me from wherever they are in the world, or where personal circumstances may also limit their ability to travel or be in a classroom.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yet, I do get into the classroom when I can. I continue to teach Drawing and Painting courses as 'Blended Lessons' with Adult Education (some people at home and some in the classroom) and have some taster Expressive Drawing courses coming up in <a href="https://www.kentadulteducation.co.uk/search-results/?search=cas+holmes">April and May</a> starting at £40</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEQz0-QeMUYqWWXhETMEyTpEfeyBjSz49axRSLAkJmgHmkAArZs99gdbh_obHY2M_iGKFNV-KXUbtXWPi4QKeIqSmEBb0IVjR9TkWpZhXIXtQGvvD1UtoOv1gkGRYSt4kTpqngB3ETJ-H8sGT7tcPFjp8FntXJrbzZmHU7j-C9ZICOgPyNRfUrefgn8Lg/s1440/426627861_932708132033342_6878499813511460516_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEQz0-QeMUYqWWXhETMEyTpEfeyBjSz49axRSLAkJmgHmkAArZs99gdbh_obHY2M_iGKFNV-KXUbtXWPi4QKeIqSmEBb0IVjR9TkWpZhXIXtQGvvD1UtoOv1gkGRYSt4kTpqngB3ETJ-H8sGT7tcPFjp8FntXJrbzZmHU7j-C9ZICOgPyNRfUrefgn8Lg/w640-h640/426627861_932708132033342_6878499813511460516_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Working is dependent on location, carers (and overnight cover in some cases), so by nature the logistics are complex to organise and as a result, in-place workshops are less frequent now. In June<a href="https://www.soulstirmagic.com/franceretreat"> I am teaching in France </a>(Derek's brother will be here to provide welcome support) I aim to do a least one workshop overseas if I can each year. Where I can't, my bespoke course with<a href="https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/courses/casholmes/"> Fibre Arts Takes Two </a> which opens for enrolment soon, provide that in depth experience a residential course can provide. Just differently.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">All open to enrol courses <a href="https://casholmes.uk/workshops/">are listed onto my website w</a>hich I update when they come in. This includes two one day courses on <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/westdeanlondon/1123423?">6 April a</a>nd<a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/westdeanlondon/1123394?"> 5th July </a>with West Dean College at their new London Campus. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I find the intellectual and creative challenge teaching brings stimulating. If you would like to work with me, we can always talk about what may be possible.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-32373949329983444282024-01-17T17:31:00.005+00:002024-01-18T15:52:47.027+00:00Unspoken, Truth and Silence at the Halpern Gallery, Chatham<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Had a lovely day hanging the exhibition Unspoken, Truth and Silence at the <a href="https://www.nucleusarts.com/halpern-casholmes">Halpern Gallery, Chatham.</a> It opens Thursday 18th through to 31st January.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_1FXE3emb_3Qv_7lcsvUPjhNWdJs7HiXc0Qwts_QE8rWQMZKLPX_kCGuqbBv5QgpnLIRiOf9wKafnNmPMJLR2UA2yd2F_wucgVkVvFFDoY2yPgfUfq48LYUOqOVFO9x_fN4p86AfRPPbp8_-SizTM_Jfah32z4KsXqBE8ppF-pqx6kmtfuRhsn5X1cGc/s6735/Poster.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6735" data-original-width="4762" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_1FXE3emb_3Qv_7lcsvUPjhNWdJs7HiXc0Qwts_QE8rWQMZKLPX_kCGuqbBv5QgpnLIRiOf9wKafnNmPMJLR2UA2yd2F_wucgVkVvFFDoY2yPgfUfq48LYUOqOVFO9x_fN4p86AfRPPbp8_-SizTM_Jfah32z4KsXqBE8ppF-pqx6kmtfuRhsn5X1cGc/w452-h640/Poster.jpg" width="452" /></span></a><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This exhibition includes the collaborative project UMO (</span><span style="font-family: arial;">‘Unidentified Meaningful Object)</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> the brainchild of artist <a href="https://www.facebook.com/liesbethwertstextileartist">Liesbeth Werts</a>, supported by </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Cas Holmes which invites visitors to create their own interpretations and to contribute to the installation at the gallery if they wish.</span></span></p><p style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3t3FINUb47vTcIj2oYeLp-_CLd1gbf3maipt-DpQWI9b7UiRP4yqNQnk-R8rO3asIcsYi3YSil2jE3ZxF5iXhauhtDRI0ulSZVv2IiO1F5FpF31ElIkFKXv4re0D-aSZ_HRk5mz5oHq8lwY_ca9N6Zdn7d65eko0pfvpQNoefVxFOeALe740ayOg9_58/w640-h426/IMG_3266.JPG" width="640" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><br /></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">COLLABORATE WITH US AND MAKE AN 'UMO'</span></p></span><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Details of how to make an UMO can be found at the gallery or on this </span><a href="https://casholmes.uk/what-we-value-what-we-miss/" style="font-size: x-large;">website link</a><span style="font-size: large;">. Loving these ephemeral wrapped bundles by 3-4 year olds of <a href="https://homesteadgresford.com/">Homestead Nursery, Gresford, North Wales</a></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhZaKXgbzTlAQY9MLM72s9QH12tOS7KS85-UgD0BDYxhEbfPubtacqG7HhBAKV6icfFLHOh0zco98gkFLKh3L5pzUx5vbml6sU-oSgcukBjn8N_s3GIyZu1DQJh_PDrrR0YQnRxF2JMCVrRbW-YOHsH6oABE8S9AAgc7-QWJJr4Jhnt-awF4AGJp5q6qY/s4610/IMG_3238.JPG" style="font-family: Tinos; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3012" data-original-width="4610" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhZaKXgbzTlAQY9MLM72s9QH12tOS7KS85-UgD0BDYxhEbfPubtacqG7HhBAKV6icfFLHOh0zco98gkFLKh3L5pzUx5vbml6sU-oSgcukBjn8N_s3GIyZu1DQJh_PDrrR0YQnRxF2JMCVrRbW-YOHsH6oABE8S9AAgc7-QWJJr4Jhnt-awF4AGJp5q6qY/w640-h271/IMG_3238.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span>There is also a lovely<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T81VkLI4s9E"> little video by Lie</a></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T81VkLI4s9E">sbeth Werts.</a></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> Other venues are planned during the year before returning to the gallery in 2025 so there is time to be involved. Add you piece to the collection on display in the gallery or post your UMO before 30th January. (Please note these will not be returned)</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFtTEdL3nyw6VMJQTN-7Q6Aaphnb-21HawdEV3o_VLzIBiVDDN-Chkgri0lAP1JMfd1MxpkzzFVEmO5rGCQxGmwDi44UNGYNuiHrfoTehvJPQjTb4pE5wmtZuNqC35zxflji9PKPmKeT_x6G22suFxRh71kkcYy2WTZ19WjGnKaGfs1MaN0688diojspw" style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="967" data-original-width="1356" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFtTEdL3nyw6VMJQTN-7Q6Aaphnb-21HawdEV3o_VLzIBiVDDN-Chkgri0lAP1JMfd1MxpkzzFVEmO5rGCQxGmwDi44UNGYNuiHrfoTehvJPQjTb4pE5wmtZuNqC35zxflji9PKPmKeT_x6G22suFxRh71kkcYy2WTZ19WjGnKaGfs1MaN0688diojspw=w640-h456" width="640" /></span></a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Contributions have been made by the What We Value, What We Miss online group, Jumpstart and the Nucleus Arts Centre 'creative family', particpants of the </span><a href="https://www.mentalfightclub.art/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Mental Fight Club </a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> as well as individual contributions sent in from all over the world. With special thanks to the </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/fibreandform12/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Fibre and Form</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> textile group for their contribution (and assisting with the installation) and to the Nucleus Arts Centre for supporting the exhibition.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I am also delighted to announce that the<a href="https://www.romaniarts.co.uk/gypsy-makers-tour-20th-january-to-29th-june-2024/"> </a></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.romaniarts.co.uk/gypsy-makers-tour-20th-january-to-29th-june-2024/">Gypsy Makers Tour</a> opens with a l</span><span style="font-family: arial;">aunch at <a href="https://www.typawb.wales/programme/gypsy-makers/">Tŷ Pawb on the 19th January 2024 from 5.30pm to 7.30pm</a></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Py6kVwIRjbjiByL54H1P_iJqjiXk__Y7Xy-j9NFG_2LgwUnDyZaMt7DrcUoz3RRzjhtelIa-KA5b1ok5bmJZEmKWbB6Prf-YPXkSvzndlSyC8Msh8NWWTvJDyI-zOY1H9l82xMoLYbwss8iB0HQGFLCkHh0TCsqWIztmSv2oPpD9Um5ak8SP2c5SqSo/s2048/418883187_1321036545401186_4329166485045910237_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2047" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Py6kVwIRjbjiByL54H1P_iJqjiXk__Y7Xy-j9NFG_2LgwUnDyZaMt7DrcUoz3RRzjhtelIa-KA5b1ok5bmJZEmKWbB6Prf-YPXkSvzndlSyC8Msh8NWWTvJDyI-zOY1H9l82xMoLYbwss8iB0HQGFLCkHh0TCsqWIztmSv2oPpD9Um5ak8SP2c5SqSo/w640-h640/418883187_1321036545401186_4329166485045910237_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>Illuminate by<a href="https://www.arttextilesmadeinbritain.co.uk/"> Art Textiles Made in Britain</a> is currently on show at<a href="https://www.queenstreetgalleryneath.co.uk/illuminate-1"> Queen Street Gallery in Neath.</a> until 17th February.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZcygurso9kUAC24OPmGhIH_kTk4CYcjEuJRtEr8mXBn4Wa5GeA1EsBkY3qYe__hvp5vzIzmprQPUgUQ_EwW_ZEkVfm1_HedcRGYQEQADT__yKgQq1mbOVSxX6SNLYphMAgTng50tu9wQO6HHYl2htrLNTYm1Jxk987YjfLN_e815EiBiJ_hoLePFMeMk/s457/book-cover-for-insta.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="457" height="608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZcygurso9kUAC24OPmGhIH_kTk4CYcjEuJRtEr8mXBn4Wa5GeA1EsBkY3qYe__hvp5vzIzmprQPUgUQ_EwW_ZEkVfm1_HedcRGYQEQADT__yKgQq1mbOVSxX6SNLYphMAgTng50tu9wQO6HHYl2htrLNTYm1Jxk987YjfLN_e815EiBiJ_hoLePFMeMk/w640-h608/book-cover-for-insta.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">And finally, we enter the last month of <a href="https://canterburymuseums.co.uk/the-beaney/">Storyellers exhibition at The Beaney in Canterbury</a> there are only a few tickets left for my artists talk on Saturday 3rd February with Rob Smith. You <a href="https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/select/RdiEJKhzXNnT">can book a free place here.</a></span><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-15678961292860682212023-12-26T13:17:00.545+00:002024-01-09T12:11:28.255+00:00Looking Back, Looking Forward<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaePZbojgMR93oAi7OpiEAd4nNtH8cDhhtLsjySxGx5bBQaw-ZV6O_GleIm8CNtb3ZIyYOyhGXt5Hpx0Msccqe7GUzfKsEuDaQ7ykKj4Py1kxLnYFBodu3T8VYVPgBy8VjOzeCw4AgBzAavdwhg0VoN-HOY3kcbCQxSQ2YqEFkfKzm6_CnpXW7dSoGCA8/s5184/IMG_3048.JPG" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaePZbojgMR93oAi7OpiEAd4nNtH8cDhhtLsjySxGx5bBQaw-ZV6O_GleIm8CNtb3ZIyYOyhGXt5Hpx0Msccqe7GUzfKsEuDaQ7ykKj4Py1kxLnYFBodu3T8VYVPgBy8VjOzeCw4AgBzAavdwhg0VoN-HOY3kcbCQxSQ2YqEFkfKzm6_CnpXW7dSoGCA8/w640-h426/IMG_3048.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Looking back this year and reflecting has been one of accepting the continuing challenges of balancing the caring role with that of the creative role. As Susan Weeks commented in my recent interview as part of the<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-demand-talking-threads-cas-holmes-and-jessica-grady-tickets-716058599547"> Embroiderer's Guilds Talking Threads</a> series. It has been a time when:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>'collaboration with others also means I have needed to accept help and support from other people so that I can still some of the things I want or need to do' </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I remain thankful for all the people in my life from friends and professional colleagues, to carers and the Kent Community Health Teams for helping Derek and I to travel through the ups and downs of the last year. That in it itself enough to celebrate</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I am managing to balance (most of the time) the Care-Clean-Create cycle and CULTIVATE my own sense of self and creativity. which I talk about in</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> a feature of <a href="https://embroiderymagazine.co.uk/">Jan-Feb 24 issue of Embroidery Magazine</a></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://embroiderymagazine.co.uk/"> </a>,</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">the magazine of <a href="https://embroiderersguild.com/">The UK Embroiderers' Guild</a>. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">a delightful way to kick off the New Year </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQVFdJOtUQl4tJeyRjpx5yRvpMxfCHpmV-qwFFxLgBlhxBiZewZV6GH6x1c82V_AgWdlgzhVr9w4V2c3xKVnMoKmBTOtNa-NyLN8SYMh8QeZzc4MkZ1axTEhp_6FGU2S7FDd0YIpa1PldFhrTUYRaETVWrOXmV1tNfAcJMQKl5uA-P1JJTMswZb_E6sWA/s831/412863385_899322642038558_4630606090071586199_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="831" data-original-width="828" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQVFdJOtUQl4tJeyRjpx5yRvpMxfCHpmV-qwFFxLgBlhxBiZewZV6GH6x1c82V_AgWdlgzhVr9w4V2c3xKVnMoKmBTOtNa-NyLN8SYMh8QeZzc4MkZ1axTEhp_6FGU2S7FDd0YIpa1PldFhrTUYRaETVWrOXmV1tNfAcJMQKl5uA-P1JJTMswZb_E6sWA/w638-h640/412863385_899322642038558_4630606090071586199_n.jpg" width="638" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Here are a few things I am looking forward to in 2024 before looking back</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>Looking Forward</b></span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><p class="yiv8523317600ydp11bf4a75MsoHeader" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: left;"><span class="yiv8523317600" style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Gypsy Makers Tour</span></span></p><p class="yiv8523317600ydp11bf4a75MsoHeader" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: center;"><span class="yiv8523317600" style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.romaniarts.co.uk/gypsy-makers-tour-20th-january-to-29th-june-2024/">Launch at Tŷ Pawb</a> 19th January 2024 from 5.30pm to 7.30pm</span></span></p></h2><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228;"><a href="https://www.romaniarts.co.uk/">The Romani Cultural & Arts Company (RCAC</a>) is excited to announce the launch of the latest edition of their ground-breaking Gypsy Maker project. Gypsy Makers is a new touring exhibition that will feature work from artists that the RCAC has commissioned since the inception of the Gypsy Maker initiative in 2014. The Gypsy Makers touring exhibition will show new and existing artworks to mark the tenth anniversary of the Gypsy Maker programme which has been fully supported by the Arts Council of Wales. Gypsy Makers will include works by the artists Daniel Baker, Billy Kerry, Artur Conka, Corrina Eastwood, Cas Holmes, Rosamaria Kostic Cisneros, Shamus McPhee and Dan Turner</span></span></p><p><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj91GTg4CIV4icOWitsAvTf23JNCF2k1NugEqLSH2TtEJ_qCewWay2U0qZHKPRm-eg5gHzp8syIvEZrESef9ntDyJ7cTZX3q6-0HhTJRTkcXU48x-rqW5NsMt6llCUOYnJy4JW4TMcVB8cFq7Qj5e4-_UOR9YEJbZHZvlX-XZaKq7zEzBm1Gt_l3oEEETE/s1017/Shelley%20Ganderton.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1017" data-original-width="984" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj91GTg4CIV4icOWitsAvTf23JNCF2k1NugEqLSH2TtEJ_qCewWay2U0qZHKPRm-eg5gHzp8syIvEZrESef9ntDyJ7cTZX3q6-0HhTJRTkcXU48x-rqW5NsMt6llCUOYnJy4JW4TMcVB8cFq7Qj5e4-_UOR9YEJbZHZvlX-XZaKq7zEzBm1Gt_l3oEEETE/w620-h640/Shelley%20Ganderton.jpg" width="620" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Memory detail in Storytellers. Image by Shelley Ganderton</td></tr></tbody></table><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Storytellers</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Storytellers continues at <a href="https://canterburymuseums.co.uk/the-beaney/">The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge</a>. until 24th February. There is a full programme of free live interviews with the artists. I am talking with Rob Smith on <a href="https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/kent-creative/storytellers-artist-talk-cas-holmes-in-conversation-with-rob-smith/e-xgypvr">Saturday 3 February 1.30pm</a> (places are limited so book early) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwPqS1MLTgIm6HnADTrXeGopv2NByyuSX7TiiUCMqEvTN86n-5S_og7sLCEofqGazfYS4nkxkq4AfcPx-dgId5d2CPYyOzEY85k8gNfoBvX7dHn7UKXUJrTVOTQricjfvTfWXmMJlpGN3EBnecYphtA70H6gSneWoqIj8zDX9daaVZE-J6Kz2wdumL_Ec/s2500/Unidentified+Meaningful+Objects+(1).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1667" data-original-width="2500" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwPqS1MLTgIm6HnADTrXeGopv2NByyuSX7TiiUCMqEvTN86n-5S_og7sLCEofqGazfYS4nkxkq4AfcPx-dgId5d2CPYyOzEY85k8gNfoBvX7dHn7UKXUJrTVOTQricjfvTfWXmMJlpGN3EBnecYphtA70H6gSneWoqIj8zDX9daaVZE-J6Kz2wdumL_Ec/w400-h266/Unidentified+Meaningful+Objects+(1).JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Unspoken: Truth and Silence, <a href="https://www.nucleusarts.com/halpern-casholmes">The Halpern Gallery </a>Chatham </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">8th – 31st January 2024</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">An exhibition exploring the things we may not want talk about as well as the things we care about.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Teaching and Workshops</b></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9ef2HrREaBw0WMo1kjKqok8C60KIkXHDrHNjiTfKy3qQ1bXT_tr6vEDKxQvFPVCt-62oUbKamE_R120WfzT9fMMlkeVWDY6VqJmdNPjz_xaVXPhkFdrrz8XLo4hCh3rtCbrw-5OfYUf3LLtHS80NGUGvB624XRaqFRVRvgLCNKoaeDZhlqhmGYXZMjjE/s1920/screenshot-2023-12-01-21.46.35.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="866" data-original-width="1920" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9ef2HrREaBw0WMo1kjKqok8C60KIkXHDrHNjiTfKy3qQ1bXT_tr6vEDKxQvFPVCt-62oUbKamE_R120WfzT9fMMlkeVWDY6VqJmdNPjz_xaVXPhkFdrrz8XLo4hCh3rtCbrw-5OfYUf3LLtHS80NGUGvB624XRaqFRVRvgLCNKoaeDZhlqhmGYXZMjjE/w640-h288/screenshot-2023-12-01-21.46.35.png" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><p class="MsoNormal">French Retreat</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Looking forward to my upcoming retreat in the South of France June 7-14th 2024 with</span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-demand-talking-threads-cas-holmes-and-jessica-grady-tickets-716058599547" style="font-size: large;"> Soul Stirring Retreats.</a><span style="font-size: large;"> This will be my first overseas workshop in 4 years</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJk2_iJsbD7nSoVC8zdoLbULJlxC8VyGr8k-DK4JkgByNlkGhVQrnQyAbRoAMK3b3HcmR_E31qceCBWi_zfEc2R83jW-B2widbyxbaQO3qt2Yk-R9kKWD4jFCmMi_I8g0gcr73b2B2eCrMPS8Vgpab3uy_gPibECdMxpEIfjWxoTTQDZRyNmZXpxe-Rxw/s1600/389330-cas-holmes-len-valley.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJk2_iJsbD7nSoVC8zdoLbULJlxC8VyGr8k-DK4JkgByNlkGhVQrnQyAbRoAMK3b3HcmR_E31qceCBWi_zfEc2R83jW-B2widbyxbaQO3qt2Yk-R9kKWD4jFCmMi_I8g0gcr73b2B2eCrMPS8Vgpab3uy_gPibECdMxpEIfjWxoTTQDZRyNmZXpxe-Rxw/w400-h225/389330-cas-holmes-len-valley.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>West Dean College<p></p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My courses at <a href="https://www.westdean.ac.uk/tutors/cas-holmes">West Dean College</a> online and at the college are full however I am please to be able to offer some one day courses at their <a href="https://www.westdean.ac.uk/london-campus">London Campus</a> in the Spring. Updates to follow in 2024.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVhTQMebljf6loivMHhLXqXIh2OljfR6_2Zx3_qxxIC_E-LKL_DUvbivvce_o7Wksh3DhtCgVTTLef0L88p3FGPm0Utm5STNkbic-ibTiMLBouhYKjSK2sfcsdIjGr_XTDAHv2k0euV_F43EIQDP56NqOraFdwN9gI8C9SrOKSp46RNfvG7YbfR8FChEI/s835/409060979_889942042976618_494420890994057058_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="835" data-original-width="780" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVhTQMebljf6loivMHhLXqXIh2OljfR6_2Zx3_qxxIC_E-LKL_DUvbivvce_o7Wksh3DhtCgVTTLef0L88p3FGPm0Utm5STNkbic-ibTiMLBouhYKjSK2sfcsdIjGr_XTDAHv2k0euV_F43EIQDP56NqOraFdwN9gI8C9SrOKSp46RNfvG7YbfR8FChEI/w374-h400/409060979_889942042976618_494420890994057058_n.jpg" width="374" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Adult Education:Expressive Drawing</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I am offering two courses at Kent Adult Education. One on line Wed afternoons from <a href="https://www.kentadulteducation.co.uk/courses/expressive-drawing-online-live-onl-138925-n-pf/">11th April to 15th May via Zoom </a></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.kentadulteducation.co.uk/courses/expressive-drawing-online-live-onl-138925-n-pf/">(£97)</a></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> in place at Maidstone on <a href="https://www.kentadulteducation.co.uk/courses/expressive-drawing-mai-138791-n-pf/">Saturday 11th May (£40)</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The courses focus on an exploratory and experimental approach to making mixed media drawings based on my own practice.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I will be sharing further updates regarding releases of courses including the Spring release date of<a href="https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/courses/casholmes/"> Fibre Arts Takes Two </a>in future posts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Looking Back</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">So many things travel through from one year to the next.<a href="https://www.arttextilesmadeinbritain.co.uk/"> Illuminate ATMIB</a> continues it tour to <a href="https://www.studio40neath.com/studio40events"> Studio 40</a>,Queen Street Gallery, Neath (following on from its launch at the Knitting and Stitching Show)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-m8IN9tJwX_v41NoeUPCUTwdVYRHn_8CNeDzMfE3lip6fwz4PAmm8aERitouinTwhCb8CAfhJLOFotQum01rupfDbUjkC9XNJN9iArBMgoqGknyAyhMA2FXMRHJn2RhIS8kAo86weOEGpyVBgcVONH8JezaziZhw2PHAqxMaD3v93Qko6WuFu3sBme5M/s4160/IMG_20231007_133002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-m8IN9tJwX_v41NoeUPCUTwdVYRHn_8CNeDzMfE3lip6fwz4PAmm8aERitouinTwhCb8CAfhJLOFotQum01rupfDbUjkC9XNJN9iArBMgoqGknyAyhMA2FXMRHJn2RhIS8kAo86weOEGpyVBgcVONH8JezaziZhw2PHAqxMaD3v93Qko6WuFu3sBme5M/w640-h480/IMG_20231007_133002.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Places, Spaces and Traces/Shipping Forecast</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This new work which has been touring since December 2021 before its major show at the beautiful Sint-Anna-ten-Drieën church in Antwerp in 2022 toured around all four nations of the UK during 2023. You can see more on my<a href="https://casholmes.uk/work-2/"> works page</a> on my website. I am negotiating a possible final venue in 2023. Please contact me if you would like more details about this project. I was very touched by this <a href="https://youtu.be/qCA376IuK34?si=kI3rEkL4rvTrA5X7">beautiful little video</a> by<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@scottishislandliving"> Fiona D Artisan of Scottish Island Living</a></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@scottishislandliving"> </a>about the collaboration with the community that is <a href="https://www.crafttownscotland.org/">Craft Town Scotland</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_lrgBPkMAzyzBY3wbp5lBrbQ4VHkPgOgrAdjcigeRI_C5G2pP7lqRi_7Lc5f0AZGpG4tKX2HkPvHvqNnuZ4WtlUYYMM1PCDeOyvDcmJvVumiAk8NYfJ8YDLT6BYAar_r2GFOdUrSGvkKKGWvTkDIuVnJLA5He9sTXdc-7gCA20dLmW-KVp8UH8_jBX6k/s4032/received_829744128619144.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_lrgBPkMAzyzBY3wbp5lBrbQ4VHkPgOgrAdjcigeRI_C5G2pP7lqRi_7Lc5f0AZGpG4tKX2HkPvHvqNnuZ4WtlUYYMM1PCDeOyvDcmJvVumiAk8NYfJ8YDLT6BYAar_r2GFOdUrSGvkKKGWvTkDIuVnJLA5He9sTXdc-7gCA20dLmW-KVp8UH8_jBX6k/w300-h400/received_829744128619144.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Other exhibitions</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I exhibited with<a href="https://casholmes.blogspot.com/2023/02/nice-bit-of-stuff-fibre-and-form.html"> Fibre and Form at Nucleus Arts Centre with Absence.</a> The first in a new series of work which I have been creating and writing about (more about the writing later). It was lovely </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">to be invited to exhibit </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">in 'Stitch by Stitch' at the Willow Gallery Oswestry in the Summer. The catalogue sold out but you can<a href="https://willowgalleryoswestry.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Final-Stitch-by-Stitch-21.7.2023-18.26.pdf"> get a copy here</a> to download. I was also thrilled to be invited as guest judge for the inaugural Mote Park Art Competition in the Autumn.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYDRySn6KJOUgCAmdaT_XCsAKcIFvkyTiG3HKfigw_3i36DWEq2NnI7qjhCNIN1FHdfoytdsTv9OogQAQynRobauP8ZCysrgtVW7U5Q2b5x_Nfm_MS7k4Lv6Gunb3K3dOKX5sPBK1hVxQHWnReytY2NL2JtJAaf51SyH-KiV5PL9XrS_YfE30oybvSGWc/s640/387092207_733828082105640_8843755938895672588_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="640" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYDRySn6KJOUgCAmdaT_XCsAKcIFvkyTiG3HKfigw_3i36DWEq2NnI7qjhCNIN1FHdfoytdsTv9OogQAQynRobauP8ZCysrgtVW7U5Q2b5x_Nfm_MS7k4Lv6Gunb3K3dOKX5sPBK1hVxQHWnReytY2NL2JtJAaf51SyH-KiV5PL9XrS_YfE30oybvSGWc/w640-h336/387092207_733828082105640_8843755938895672588_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Teaching, Talks and Collaboration</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">That I have been able to teach at all this year has been down to a re-think about my practice. As one good friend recently said to me '<i>you have </i></span></span><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">evolved new skills</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">even taking on online work where you were initially reluctant during the pandemic and this has enabled your to be </span></i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>more adaptable in the way you work and with what you do in your collaboration with others'</i>. This adaptability is a two way process which has enabled me to continue working with overseas clients on bespoke courses and talks in the virtual environment of Zoom to the specialist pre-recorded course I teach with Fibre Arts Takes Two.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrhu1Qhh1O7pR9_Vi6qJ0-Lye23K62BZXfHNVMl3SOTkRILrLuR1kFlATb0vBo9yqAA3tCck9unLVEH32C6MiOltx9bTRC0Jc7g3KOOylO85verhxkUG0noGBh-bBgOphnHxgpXgjZO-yZSKRdwE4sNj4mQEre7IGILvAu2RZ7pqCO8hhwjRaYbnZb0-0/s735/Screenshot%20(77).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="735" height="624" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrhu1Qhh1O7pR9_Vi6qJ0-Lye23K62BZXfHNVMl3SOTkRILrLuR1kFlATb0vBo9yqAA3tCck9unLVEH32C6MiOltx9bTRC0Jc7g3KOOylO85verhxkUG0noGBh-bBgOphnHxgpXgjZO-yZSKRdwE4sNj4mQEre7IGILvAu2RZ7pqCO8hhwjRaYbnZb0-0/w640-h624/Screenshot%20(77).png" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At home I have managed short courses with </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">West Dean College and with Kent Adult Education and have built up some work with new and existing partnerships both in place and online including work with the Mental Fight club and a look at sketchbook for art teacher training in Brighton. More about my work and collaborations can be found on my<a href="https://casholmes.uk/"> website </a>including a very exciting writing project I will be talking about in 2024<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8gcnfJBjFEPW-MzhWtRpfyowWgvLbHVXOKtGNmKBMAq-ZEWq-7l70gEEExK8L6Cm64j9g3iErQZu3h3DhUH-jD2b_YILjbdI4N3oTLGdiM1nj-RouZNiMnt41p1sZ_K6mzVzbClgVRhcIg_TCnGbxObEsDNoCrijRSRXzMnSY9K1OBzHwB2KEkmnmGnE/s697/Screenshot%20(79).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="697" height="629" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8gcnfJBjFEPW-MzhWtRpfyowWgvLbHVXOKtGNmKBMAq-ZEWq-7l70gEEExK8L6Cm64j9g3iErQZu3h3DhUH-jD2b_YILjbdI4N3oTLGdiM1nj-RouZNiMnt41p1sZ_K6mzVzbClgVRhcIg_TCnGbxObEsDNoCrijRSRXzMnSY9K1OBzHwB2KEkmnmGnE/w640-h629/Screenshot%20(79).png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXdjGNDLOpLBm6xFbVGqMpyZTEPlwaEUjiFfBcx39UTjHQvhjjj__NzzeMSt2ILB9dg1Juh1csY2yK8m75Ck29kKhtSzdt1AIZomkF5A-SuiQoQ0Dyi4G0spnvano3Rpusp-4M10e04SSNmlzeqxcpKUJCWlsXLk-1kwVvqTBaekaSbj52XrlsqnFr9kk/s1040/405584768_882058107098345_468335886088028712_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="1040" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXdjGNDLOpLBm6xFbVGqMpyZTEPlwaEUjiFfBcx39UTjHQvhjjj__NzzeMSt2ILB9dg1Juh1csY2yK8m75Ck29kKhtSzdt1AIZomkF5A-SuiQoQ0Dyi4G0spnvano3Rpusp-4M10e04SSNmlzeqxcpKUJCWlsXLk-1kwVvqTBaekaSbj52XrlsqnFr9kk/w640-h480/405584768_882058107098345_468335886088028712_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span><p></p><p><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">As I have been planting, seeding and growing things over the last two years as lead worker in the garden I have dug deep into Derek's knowledge base over what to plant and when. He may be more of a 'back seat gardener' but his hand is still in the garden as mine can sometimes remain in the paint and with cloth. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The garden is solace and best thing to keep me fit. The friendship and support I have had has enabled me to continue cultivating my practice.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXYHug058spZuUk6ntJeIqKAgOAPTvDQjX1a0LJcN6PYaut6ufxdkvvVS1qH455r2RwhESAKu9yz-RV4bQ9CUddAiB_b3yojJpsEKL2izTZOmZ-UqCSHgzvRVVnIO_XNtImdfV8yDkWpr7tPDE1gtRLBKxhUrXF7yCRKo3WIJgFb8D-saC2eaWCTdgSYI/s843/377743519_6962636467103404_2797433109046356726_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="839" data-original-width="843" height="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXYHug058spZuUk6ntJeIqKAgOAPTvDQjX1a0LJcN6PYaut6ufxdkvvVS1qH455r2RwhESAKu9yz-RV4bQ9CUddAiB_b3yojJpsEKL2izTZOmZ-UqCSHgzvRVVnIO_XNtImdfV8yDkWpr7tPDE1gtRLBKxhUrXF7yCRKo3WIJgFb8D-saC2eaWCTdgSYI/w640-h636/377743519_6962636467103404_2797433109046356726_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1bCVowz4OnohZ7lD18GY60-akMUacca4r3HUlXRp-Cm201amqmajb7SdY4p95UnQF1r7vBsKLzakk8QusXeqBBEQkgootnqeWMAgvRIyF4vDDTiv7ERB8V_1cXGAS3fjySpW0PP5EoKVxTz-bT1wUb0ptootiIbv3w2FdvIrqcv76bOqyH8h_71s6C6Q/s697/Screenshot%20(78).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="697" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1bCVowz4OnohZ7lD18GY60-akMUacca4r3HUlXRp-Cm201amqmajb7SdY4p95UnQF1r7vBsKLzakk8QusXeqBBEQkgootnqeWMAgvRIyF4vDDTiv7ERB8V_1cXGAS3fjySpW0PP5EoKVxTz-bT1wUb0ptootiIbv3w2FdvIrqcv76bOqyH8h_71s6C6Q/w640-h252/Screenshot%20(78).png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>I finish with a turn of the year </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">chat with my friend Christine in a radio interview on </span><span style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="xt0psk2" style="animation-name: none !important; display: inline; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><a href="https://accessmedia.nz/Player.aspx?eid=baf344fb-7d97-492e-b8e3-f64cdd0627fe&fbclid=IwAR3IcFJqoydAWAKRVQ4Xj4l3Gs5xa2Yv5Cny1WO4hms9sZ8WCdlb2Oato1M">Fresh FM</a></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://accessmedia.nz/Player.aspx?eid=baf344fb-7d97-492e-b8e3-f64cdd0627fe&fbclid=IwAR3IcFJqoydAWAKRVQ4Xj4l3Gs5xa2Yv5Cny1WO4hms9sZ8WCdlb2Oato1M"> </a>in New Zealand . Sit down with a cuppa and catch up on the recording here. Biscuit anyone?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">THANKYOU </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Happy New Year and the best for 2024</span></span></p>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-36114479623393099572023-12-03T15:58:00.000+00:002023-12-03T15:58:00.208+00:00Storytellers<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidTMQEN_xQr4fGT2pyTfdfp4XnkYG-zFQqUkezZKEvgLArjxtC-Sk5sA0VO1aTsIOnFq_TAlenZRktEnAGrzRzBiJxBbrOW_IqPzQwktL_x7vZWQNeRF8vGkHrtivwozwPzYG34RpDy3HHwtgaD-w0hk7HSAq4ddgVCuee2-k33pgyvf_dwWDrwWYhiBk/s1000/399258555_874436921189800_4286015154363027305_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="713" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidTMQEN_xQr4fGT2pyTfdfp4XnkYG-zFQqUkezZKEvgLArjxtC-Sk5sA0VO1aTsIOnFq_TAlenZRktEnAGrzRzBiJxBbrOW_IqPzQwktL_x7vZWQNeRF8vGkHrtivwozwPzYG34RpDy3HHwtgaD-w0hk7HSAq4ddgVCuee2-k33pgyvf_dwWDrwWYhiBk/w456-h640/399258555_874436921189800_4286015154363027305_n.jpg" width="456" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am delighted to be exhibiting in Storytellers at <a href="https://canterburymuseums.co.uk/the-beaney/">The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge.</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Storytellers is curated by <a href="https://kentcreative.org/">Kent Creative </a>in partnership with the <a href="https://www.lilfordgallery.com/">Lilford Gallery.</a> The exhibition showcases the connection between art and storytelling, emphasising how artwork can convey narratives, emotions and perspectives. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic-7kkj2yzRXxbgKOr3PjddU25sJCdqjrFHo5mWf59OWq22DKGyMPrPWgisur48CXAblWegaW4RlrSb2r0i_x68wXKGQN9lKX-Cmi5TAgEcaEtiyues9SpoPRH9406OUICYO1aIGM8uwAAGbkdXpGX1FQuuMr5DwpESV0OYtFH7sZrsH8_jQ1MPSeYmp4/s853/400155472_853127713250408_8902979967106418207_n.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="853" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic-7kkj2yzRXxbgKOr3PjddU25sJCdqjrFHo5mWf59OWq22DKGyMPrPWgisur48CXAblWegaW4RlrSb2r0i_x68wXKGQN9lKX-Cmi5TAgEcaEtiyues9SpoPRH9406OUICYO1aIGM8uwAAGbkdXpGX1FQuuMr5DwpESV0OYtFH7sZrsH8_jQ1MPSeYmp4/w640-h360/400155472_853127713250408_8902979967106418207_n.png" width="640" /></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I was so pleased to be able to attend the Private View of this beautifully hung, and thoughtfully curated exhibition.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig-JVUnyatNsyzF8JGztG5N5cW4emPfutQL1VepgFfCfDSlUSomIULBnWrqIyygIovYVp8g5sR-mwMLy2LGE4YWuYgJTLLqoHUmau2zJ-imZIBpqQW3uYDNzIi5OxGLdd8qGFXKGRzoLyYulJmEbFIvdmb9YKCku0USMeVKAcuTmL7Ar6pFQRnxTx1_6g/s960/407416979_7207827159250999_1456052546398417742_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig-JVUnyatNsyzF8JGztG5N5cW4emPfutQL1VepgFfCfDSlUSomIULBnWrqIyygIovYVp8g5sR-mwMLy2LGE4YWuYgJTLLqoHUmau2zJ-imZIBpqQW3uYDNzIi5OxGLdd8qGFXKGRzoLyYulJmEbFIvdmb9YKCku0USMeVKAcuTmL7Ar6pFQRnxTx1_6g/w640-h640/407416979_7207827159250999_1456052546398417742_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghj5Dtvejcz4WT881QPhqcKERSFKFHxUG9bR7dHCshJpgTDt_rXmrzgXtTdazJrrM6GD9Sa2aGm0cokWqYgmwsH4aRNwwpcLi053hV06cOKnT6ogij-rwVE-apHCMOoAQES3rOL7KEdffTsZGpIvU4FKlK8hyphenhyphenHzGP7cI4pV9QPWRjATtLgt7ApR3_yeIw/s960/407425379_7207827149251000_1302979000503449788_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghj5Dtvejcz4WT881QPhqcKERSFKFHxUG9bR7dHCshJpgTDt_rXmrzgXtTdazJrrM6GD9Sa2aGm0cokWqYgmwsH4aRNwwpcLi053hV06cOKnT6ogij-rwVE-apHCMOoAQES3rOL7KEdffTsZGpIvU4FKlK8hyphenhyphenHzGP7cI4pV9QPWRjATtLgt7ApR3_yeIw/w640-h640/407425379_7207827149251000_1302979000503449788_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Beaney is an award winning museum and entry is free. Find out about the stories behind each work. There is a full programme of <a href="https://canterburymuseums.co.uk/events/artist-talks-storytellers/">free live interviews</a> with the artists. <a href="https://cultureinkent.org/events/storytellers-artist-talk-cas-holmes-in-conversation-with-rob-smith/">I am talking </a></span><a href="https://cultureinkent.org/events/storytellers-artist-talk-cas-holmes-in-conversation-with-rob-smith/"><span style="font-size: large;">with Rob Smith on Saturday 3 February 1.30pm (places are limited so book early)</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></a></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>The exhibition is open now until 24th February 2024. V</span><span>isit the The Beaney website link for more information.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>For those unable to attend an interview by Kent Creative about my work can be found here on </span><a href="https://youtu.be/Hj88zNsjRx8">Kent Creative Show</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoT572oWW4gSG9drd8YrZfqq7GPqcap4H27akhWVfA-HfF3TRzAkeHjBlUvYlxdFWZL4CrF1t8kUkKoHE-vLXNn1TsTJiM2lbZFpdRTF4AOhFYtbko3rtIMkjTJTyAz_17iyXd0P4OCXCuwUuoLo4j7JicGRO6wwj3-hWstp6-gVkvt5joAW-lii4wuMc/s900/398049449_203497189446427_7149916356046832811_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoT572oWW4gSG9drd8YrZfqq7GPqcap4H27akhWVfA-HfF3TRzAkeHjBlUvYlxdFWZL4CrF1t8kUkKoHE-vLXNn1TsTJiM2lbZFpdRTF4AOhFYtbko3rtIMkjTJTyAz_17iyXd0P4OCXCuwUuoLo4j7JicGRO6wwj3-hWstp6-gVkvt5joAW-lii4wuMc/w320-h400/398049449_203497189446427_7149916356046832811_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Last chance to book into this online conversation with Jessica Grady Embroidery Artist in<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eg-talking-threads-cas-holmes-and-jessica-grady-tickets-715940767107"> Talking Threads on December 7th 7-9pm for the The Embroiderers’ Guild</a> – UK hosted by Susan Weeks</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwgJj6kQBswz_9WK86UIbsCpoDdT6bTFUAEs7y2o7qyn9ipcky6hp0bw_WhtLY-HQQUit2lerhnq3_MhyphenhyphenTjh9Wxp91K-38m2SgXYg7CYBY_Nz-OP8R7XTuI-nC3P0v3_6Af4t3Z7c4Q2GhR_DMEYu2sIT7mpnkXzWPaJOQUZr00FK4Ra8pgmCzxp0aHvo/s940/https___cdn.evbuc.com_images_636695559_453770708758_1_original.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="940" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwgJj6kQBswz_9WK86UIbsCpoDdT6bTFUAEs7y2o7qyn9ipcky6hp0bw_WhtLY-HQQUit2lerhnq3_MhyphenhyphenTjh9Wxp91K-38m2SgXYg7CYBY_Nz-OP8R7XTuI-nC3P0v3_6Af4t3Z7c4Q2GhR_DMEYu2sIT7mpnkXzWPaJOQUZr00FK4Ra8pgmCzxp0aHvo/w640-h320/https___cdn.evbuc.com_images_636695559_453770708758_1_original.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nucleusarts.com/halpern-casholmes">Unspoken: Truth and Silence, The Halpern Gallery Chatham</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.nucleusarts.com/halpern-casholmes">18th – 31st January 2024</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">An exhibition exploring the things we may not want talk about as well as the things we care about. We would like to invite you to create a piece for a growing collection of<a href="https://casholmes.uk/what-we-value-what-we-miss/"> Unidentified Meaningful Object</a>, a project conceived by Cas Holmes and Liesbeth Werts as part of the exhibition. (Please note these small pieces will not returned).</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Please send your UMO to: Cas Holmes c/o Genevieve Tullberg (UMO)<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Nucleus Arts Centre | 272 High Street | Chatham | Kent ME4 4BP. </span>Send works from January 2nd to arrive before 16th January</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzohhwg2B7tAW4HRgXDIvMIvdWGyrfG4jYcGMH-Ieb2t189sVWYyat2F615XYqSMOKm2TA0SaVbCpgy4k0DXIbavqM_8gyd1DVovdUH2v2IeWBUpIAwQGDd2YnL2eRfH4D0_S8uA12_FEnHDocvK30IiYvYVmTR3ZYwbq1hTHjIhf3SzlTsm8Vb9b1ZbI/s1910/Screenshot%20(72).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="671" data-original-width="1910" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzohhwg2B7tAW4HRgXDIvMIvdWGyrfG4jYcGMH-Ieb2t189sVWYyat2F615XYqSMOKm2TA0SaVbCpgy4k0DXIbavqM_8gyd1DVovdUH2v2IeWBUpIAwQGDd2YnL2eRfH4D0_S8uA12_FEnHDocvK30IiYvYVmTR3ZYwbq1hTHjIhf3SzlTsm8Vb9b1ZbI/w640-h224/Screenshot%20(72).png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;">Finally I am delighted to share this <a href="https://youtu.be/rsz2o26F9XM?si=h8O4wccYP5LhD4Jb">interview with Jen Cushman</a> talking about my upcoming retreat in the South of France June 7-14th 2024 with <a href="https://www.soulstirmagic.com/soulstirringretreats">Soul Stirring Retreats.</a> This will be my first overseas workshop in 4 years.<a href="https://www.soulstirmagic.com/appointments"> You can book a session with Jen to discuss any questions you may have here.</a></div></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8cFN28R3zuQnrsGhl5kTXWOTlIROSQ72rvv5F8Ib-UZTNmhaBOGqM1vniFmKeZx7o7sGCFUXwkohOMdO-etJFEPhVBGd_0sBOP3Pfley8Oens-qHWNL9-qGoReLLybsOmSyfk6zgRJD8QXPfGrlO3vXgw1WJwbAAzdUo3QKYu2L9r0tJ-7f5w83SKjXQ/s600/Cas%20Holmes%20sewing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="600" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8cFN28R3zuQnrsGhl5kTXWOTlIROSQ72rvv5F8Ib-UZTNmhaBOGqM1vniFmKeZx7o7sGCFUXwkohOMdO-etJFEPhVBGd_0sBOP3Pfley8Oens-qHWNL9-qGoReLLybsOmSyfk6zgRJD8QXPfGrlO3vXgw1WJwbAAzdUo3QKYu2L9r0tJ-7f5w83SKjXQ/w400-h344/Cas%20Holmes%20sewing.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;">.</span></div><p></p>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-64189327068027580102023-11-02T17:10:00.007+00:002023-12-01T21:40:05.308+00:00Places, Spaces, Traces opens at Queen Street Gallery, Neath<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">My exhibition Places, Spaces and Traces opens at <a href="https://www.queenstreetgalleryneath.co.uk/">Queen Street Gallery, Neath</a> Saturday 4th November and continues until 25th November. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCKtk1ay_V5tUZ1l-lgrgC2aCkaA5Ve6XYBMxG4ES3iF4dMByuMOFsugSeZjfYrj5DQCd0YxNHuS_z9JSuc2jCDWlfv5p4qxcqEEJJJQrOvfN_qeEY1BaEeDI69aJfIQ_5ViwfO8sz993LNmQB0L4iFDSbwKREeQUvDAnAdr5h61Lc1yhBLqxdqKwA3EA/s960/398117613_18203908528278688_6767780896479528099_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="768" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCKtk1ay_V5tUZ1l-lgrgC2aCkaA5Ve6XYBMxG4ES3iF4dMByuMOFsugSeZjfYrj5DQCd0YxNHuS_z9JSuc2jCDWlfv5p4qxcqEEJJJQrOvfN_qeEY1BaEeDI69aJfIQ_5ViwfO8sz993LNmQB0L4iFDSbwKREeQUvDAnAdr5h61Lc1yhBLqxdqKwA3EA/w512-h640/398117613_18203908528278688_6767780896479528099_n.jpg" width="512" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am delighted to join the gallery for a virtual <b>Meet the Artist Event on 18th November at 2pm in Studio 40.</b> Come along to the gallery see the work and listen to me talk about the exhibition. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3e-z2ctWf9xsv-WAk0xFL9Oz3VAWoQXDKZXyrlc4apPGMo26WySx67cNQ8mb4YEn6jTHYCIBOOSAzm2KWCZECTk0SPoR1PXtO2osPsXPhklv3vjjcrjXz0jikkU-OwcWsn5UqS3c3W3c6QbYsakS7q-O0EpSV7Hwq4VVDFInK3qUsnWtg_SyDBWic4JQ/s843/398112886_18204324304278688_2835166541904889339_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="843" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3e-z2ctWf9xsv-WAk0xFL9Oz3VAWoQXDKZXyrlc4apPGMo26WySx67cNQ8mb4YEn6jTHYCIBOOSAzm2KWCZECTk0SPoR1PXtO2osPsXPhklv3vjjcrjXz0jikkU-OwcWsn5UqS3c3W3c6QbYsakS7q-O0EpSV7Hwq4VVDFInK3qUsnWtg_SyDBWic4JQ/w640-h640/398112886_18204324304278688_2835166541904889339_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I will also introduce <a href="https://casholmes.uk/what-we-value-what-we-miss/">‘Unidentified Meaningful Object' </a>a collaboration with Liesbeth Werts textile artist. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">We would like to invite you to create a your own '</span><span style="font-family: arial;">Unidentified Meaningful Object' </span><span style="font-family: arial;">for a growing collection as part of an exhibition to be held at the <a href="https://www.nucleusarts.com/halpern-casholmes">Halpern Gallery, Chatham in January 2024</a> (Please note these small pieces will not returned).</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">You can also join me in person at Nucleus Arts in Chatham for a one day session and make an UMO Further details on this<a href="https://www.nucleusarts.com/jumpstart-booking/p/190423-p4jzt-kc5jg-pkmfx-crpc8-clx33"> link.</a></span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrP2STYOX-jm0LNGOKmaqfY2BiLTsmCLXKYZVpvM7ApyW5x_XIqoZKeuCccWmpn8chKvavhmI0fxbCosEFQlnsJV5KxmFOEe_dcnW_o8gUH2WBAWZsYH-Wk0WOL8anTpzx-_r3qWpVuPlTqRq9QPDOIs5GjmzjqBplF3kBRP6hsnXQaziG6gRnnM9wiRQ/s1413/Screenshot%20(59).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="1413" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrP2STYOX-jm0LNGOKmaqfY2BiLTsmCLXKYZVpvM7ApyW5x_XIqoZKeuCccWmpn8chKvavhmI0fxbCosEFQlnsJV5KxmFOEe_dcnW_o8gUH2WBAWZsYH-Wk0WOL8anTpzx-_r3qWpVuPlTqRq9QPDOIs5GjmzjqBplF3kBRP6hsnXQaziG6gRnnM9wiRQ/w640-h332/Screenshot%20(59).png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I was delighted to be interviewed by the<a href="https://www.sofst.org/"> School of Stitched Textiles</a> for their podcast series <a href="https://www.sofst.org/cas-holmes-a-stitch-in-time/">Textiles Talk</a> </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>Cas’ work embodies her desire for travel and collecting materials which are then stitched into her work: A signature synonymous with her style, which has been described as painting with cloth. An icon of the textile art world, we caught up with Cas on our latest episode of Textile Talk to discuss her work, inspirations and current projects. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">(not sure I am an Icon through?)</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdT1Nzsw7qsaDP7GiraHZu3Abg9q_qgwvZKzp1_hn9CRzAWdgLoNgiAv8ZNNeMOVHgveSh_tNt8-kftWru_XfBLTRN_b0SqdT4XTJLkD3QmrAmjpfkfxMqGS947K1s1OJlMN3EvTm4Da06cTmUA4Gc9D7sk8FTBFCqkh3eedJrmG23d6DaJhS0bAzP16Y/s1480/Screenshot%20(58).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="1480" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdT1Nzsw7qsaDP7GiraHZu3Abg9q_qgwvZKzp1_hn9CRzAWdgLoNgiAv8ZNNeMOVHgveSh_tNt8-kftWru_XfBLTRN_b0SqdT4XTJLkD3QmrAmjpfkfxMqGS947K1s1OJlMN3EvTm4Da06cTmUA4Gc9D7sk8FTBFCqkh3eedJrmG23d6DaJhS0bAzP16Y/w640-h272/Screenshot%20(58).png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Finally. I am planning my first workshop out of the UK in four years with Jen Cushman of <a href="https://www.soulstirmagic.com/soulstirringretreats"> </a><a href="https://www.soulstirmagic.com/soulstirringretreats">Soul Stirring Retreats</a>. June 7th-June 14th, 2024 in the beautiful region of La Cascade</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.soulstirmagic.com/franceretreat">Stitch Drawings Inspired by the Places We Visit</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This will be my only workshop outside the UK this year. Only a few places are left.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-qx9YtZj5TjB91NbjWPwlb8fWHHUkIaUjc1eMbR7tv5BNTxwGl18s22V-CFpywcUp-e3x6Soybzr1AdSQgdsHvtGttUQpy8K2I-bWI3IKt3J0QZ3eJ90E7HTsNKIPaFrA-aaMpa0OScNkH-s8KZiShaVc-5eP2rtS7kgLKIvw-3QqhbtM78vF5OYj2sQ/s1268/394794298_7061436017223448_6915979688041214783_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1268" data-original-width="843" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-qx9YtZj5TjB91NbjWPwlb8fWHHUkIaUjc1eMbR7tv5BNTxwGl18s22V-CFpywcUp-e3x6Soybzr1AdSQgdsHvtGttUQpy8K2I-bWI3IKt3J0QZ3eJ90E7HTsNKIPaFrA-aaMpa0OScNkH-s8KZiShaVc-5eP2rtS7kgLKIvw-3QqhbtM78vF5OYj2sQ/w426-h640/394794298_7061436017223448_6915979688041214783_n.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-18225529231513159492023-10-12T14:49:00.004+01:002023-10-12T14:52:12.090+01:00Mote Park Art Competition and the Knitting and Stitching Show<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> I was delighted to be head judge for the recent art competition organised by Maidstone Borough Council inspired by Mote Park. Selected entries will be displayed in the new <a href="https://news.maidstone.gov.uk/home/news/2024/october/mote-park-artwork-on-display-at-exhibition?fbclid=IwAR3826KrDeG9JLpSTfmgR4wsY10TayD3of7z6bepSakGIcxhFTrOd_zWUZI">Mote Park Learning Space from Monday 23 October to Friday 3</a> November. Further information on this link The work featured below is a piece of my work ‘A Walk in the Park’</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq90FBOl5412PP05rdSd2lDps_xn3-B6j-NlvYtGrjwTBsLfh0tNW0fzvDDy_2MDNmSJomQYKKP9UVpt4CQti24W_7uYK4ILN-bUdvrKzhPE6km2BIZxr7RrM7pRggu23xUD6ZFoSpi8RUSnRlPbzc3vu_AsGjtI8Y3LQOQc1nXeUi_PX4uMMUnC792q8/s2048/387092207_733828082105640_8843755938895672588_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1076" data-original-width="2048" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq90FBOl5412PP05rdSd2lDps_xn3-B6j-NlvYtGrjwTBsLfh0tNW0fzvDDy_2MDNmSJomQYKKP9UVpt4CQti24W_7uYK4ILN-bUdvrKzhPE6km2BIZxr7RrM7pRggu23xUD6ZFoSpi8RUSnRlPbzc3vu_AsGjtI8Y3LQOQc1nXeUi_PX4uMMUnC792q8/w640-h336/387092207_733828082105640_8843755938895672588_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">“Judging the Mote Park Art competition proved both a pleasure and a challenge. A pleasure to see the diversity of entries which reveal our connection to this beautiful park through paint, pencil and mixed media work. A challenge, because each and every entry was deserving of a space which meant selecting the final pieces proved difficult. Thank you to everyone who took part.”</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I was thrilled to be able to take part in the the<a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.theknittingandstitchingshow.com/london/" href="https://www.theknittingandstitchingshow.com/london/" target="_blank"> Knitting and Stitching Show</a> this year in Illuminate wit<a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.arttextilesmadeinbritain.co.uk/" href="https://www.arttextilesmadeinbritain.co.uk/" target="_blank">h Art Textiles Made in Britain</a>.<br />The piece I have on show is called Glimmer pictured below.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXSjxSi752zuWQHcuM-bLL4BpnAbScNpgeP_I1hCa0P1QsNfAiufaWi41IIAUn8G5ruxnnjhu_DFGWfHaTab7tJ_fSrltqDwhVhUL10QUNs5wCtmVUy5lC_eOxpm4kadIpiU6ibt3ki5QYFets156JzV52Zh5nb2oseXN_4uzw4eci_i74hvHv7x-XJ7g/s5184/Cas%20%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXSjxSi752zuWQHcuM-bLL4BpnAbScNpgeP_I1hCa0P1QsNfAiufaWi41IIAUn8G5ruxnnjhu_DFGWfHaTab7tJ_fSrltqDwhVhUL10QUNs5wCtmVUy5lC_eOxpm4kadIpiU6ibt3ki5QYFets156JzV52Zh5nb2oseXN_4uzw4eci_i74hvHv7x-XJ7g/w640-h426/Cas%20%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A selected glimpse of other members work .</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV20LHvT8KVG-boUtXT66fcPXN-6Tjj-Pb8iLNKE7kroy724GhaLMc_9ErhSCo4KpbDAQ4brua7muMvml-gwnkvJ1w9wWX8E7eoCsMiuruT6gOur3rhNl7DyraSJWP8-lMZplQVs742ZEB0Oy2WuM11GddCxR3J8qM3wWVrJnUhrorVFVH5mkaznJUZMg/s5184/Christine%20and%20Steph.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV20LHvT8KVG-boUtXT66fcPXN-6Tjj-Pb8iLNKE7kroy724GhaLMc_9ErhSCo4KpbDAQ4brua7muMvml-gwnkvJ1w9wWX8E7eoCsMiuruT6gOur3rhNl7DyraSJWP8-lMZplQVs742ZEB0Oy2WuM11GddCxR3J8qM3wWVrJnUhrorVFVH5mkaznJUZMg/w640-h426/Christine%20and%20Steph.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Christine Restall and Stephanie Redfern</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHxN5BdgaF2oS4Qk9GeEtzwhOriIQ-I6JXq22_u2ttccg8Gg6Q3KTUQR0_JOeBRVEKeH8bNFqXTSBB5TQ_beMpFZyuE7A4rrAuOSRJjWSkh5pnZ2Keqjfd2ABfmBzZe9a59YecJvFyVsKqw4NTiAbfXYiwid-ClhkFxeKm8ug_iG0d4PgNxP8aXA37YWM/s5184/Christine%20H%20and%20Bethan.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHxN5BdgaF2oS4Qk9GeEtzwhOriIQ-I6JXq22_u2ttccg8Gg6Q3KTUQR0_JOeBRVEKeH8bNFqXTSBB5TQ_beMpFZyuE7A4rrAuOSRJjWSkh5pnZ2Keqjfd2ABfmBzZe9a59YecJvFyVsKqw4NTiAbfXYiwid-ClhkFxeKm8ug_iG0d4PgNxP8aXA37YWM/w640-h426/Christine%20H%20and%20Bethan.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Christine Howell and Bethan Ash</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj273bb3cN0galy4LMP5UdSQFjf3Ov825VWcIym-jcAFhzIGMNVzBO_ijYyLfGCNGc6vAqVNBQuL5NHGzgSLC8jDyP-F9nDWegMsXWeMqZnghWYTsfX6hCcw90CZKj-XyRPqgh4tk-OMuWq0GN-GtbaCVHlCyYfFTZroYgkyUqFrFRdjtxNDh64jkVxpU0/s5184/Rosie.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj273bb3cN0galy4LMP5UdSQFjf3Ov825VWcIym-jcAFhzIGMNVzBO_ijYyLfGCNGc6vAqVNBQuL5NHGzgSLC8jDyP-F9nDWegMsXWeMqZnghWYTsfX6hCcw90CZKj-XyRPqgh4tk-OMuWq0GN-GtbaCVHlCyYfFTZroYgkyUqFrFRdjtxNDh64jkVxpU0/w426-h640/Rosie.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Rosie James</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You can purchase a copy of the <a href="https://art-textiles-made-in-britain.sumupstore.com/">catalogue here.</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I was able to attend on the Saturday and managed to see a few of the other galleries.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgodrZKor2Zc7XKyYwhoH87-QTAXI2NsxvwiS2gPvdoGUBY6FzOxq58FYXJh92lOoOohnrwv7Rkpao-evzmneUV5EO539tePXwH1m1_tOeal6innj1I3xw59ObDdUiItityQCYt07RXEPB4sssoRL6QCNYxszBHed0RRrGYmGl0FS51hgh16IyMK7ZnSXQ/s4160/IMG_20231007_150752%20-%20Copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgodrZKor2Zc7XKyYwhoH87-QTAXI2NsxvwiS2gPvdoGUBY6FzOxq58FYXJh92lOoOohnrwv7Rkpao-evzmneUV5EO539tePXwH1m1_tOeal6innj1I3xw59ObDdUiItityQCYt07RXEPB4sssoRL6QCNYxszBHed0RRrGYmGl0FS51hgh16IyMK7ZnSXQ/w640-h480/IMG_20231007_150752%20-%20Copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was good to see a strong body of work from Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn in Evocative work Rhythms and Reflections</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Evocative work. Echoes of light from the moon contrasting with the shadowy fall of sunlight on grass as their work speak to each other yet clearly hold the makers hand</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipCxzBkZW4PzkFBqUo3euqwS0tKuEx9pdhpOWiythSyQPpJQzo0yALzLgqZG9yvoRgtGSf5rZLLYeVMZOfNzxHRLsD6ftE-to9LhK9EO0LHfBr9tdBGkykCNs3o4BG4oOSIgXKZhbL5k6EYcln1ZR1tcuZMNunGa0rTLuei1QMVvSaHIfCtN6L6DthoQY/s4160/IMG_20231007_122717.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipCxzBkZW4PzkFBqUo3euqwS0tKuEx9pdhpOWiythSyQPpJQzo0yALzLgqZG9yvoRgtGSf5rZLLYeVMZOfNzxHRLsD6ftE-to9LhK9EO0LHfBr9tdBGkykCNs3o4BG4oOSIgXKZhbL5k6EYcln1ZR1tcuZMNunGa0rTLuei1QMVvSaHIfCtN6L6DthoQY/w640-h480/IMG_20231007_122717.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Jan Beaney</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc5YuTylfbVU1OHPv-LJGaCl2bTQRgFHMyDXHaleOT-sB6oNHrNDnmv0Wq70tKT7hVuUzKP2a8LBW5yNlmaSTzzALRHhAZBmuvrqZ1ksT5MWCn4-kGnHq7881GkLwdEc5l1JUKDkV95ibkGjg9wn-j3fBp4jAYTp2WvBBJQF0WK_tMgI2ui6OTKCx9E40/s4160/IMG_20231007_122740.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc5YuTylfbVU1OHPv-LJGaCl2bTQRgFHMyDXHaleOT-sB6oNHrNDnmv0Wq70tKT7hVuUzKP2a8LBW5yNlmaSTzzALRHhAZBmuvrqZ1ksT5MWCn4-kGnHq7881GkLwdEc5l1JUKDkV95ibkGjg9wn-j3fBp4jAYTp2WvBBJQF0WK_tMgI2ui6OTKCx9E40/w480-h640/IMG_20231007_122740.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Jean Littlejohn</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2YcE3prvpZI83Uy9cGxEx3YMN2YzlrIqfXaRvg4-oHO0gLerk1xKyBIbQQ4DUBbDXvPwfkl-Gqw0_8bfg1cmnwngjtBqUG9ofbxXVZXTpsykDsMfHlVRPVMFUCw6tPE22xmQm7EAqxgEXv1r2u9P3CbkqSUlkjMQzGMIqBcUgKO4dqxQOcvYMG2XKGs8/s4160/IMG_20231007_121029.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2YcE3prvpZI83Uy9cGxEx3YMN2YzlrIqfXaRvg4-oHO0gLerk1xKyBIbQQ4DUBbDXvPwfkl-Gqw0_8bfg1cmnwngjtBqUG9ofbxXVZXTpsykDsMfHlVRPVMFUCw6tPE22xmQm7EAqxgEXv1r2u9P3CbkqSUlkjMQzGMIqBcUgKO4dqxQOcvYMG2XKGs8/w480-h640/IMG_20231007_121029.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn8IF7ByC7NL1X3mYVhL_IKtCnKbbSsU-wLeSSIP1ydYxAvK0BKyX-LK3_FgfHT4tgoKL1pFNjDDyYvLchYIRN0T5Jm1LOyUHN76RSLjicr9XaOUgMhjoEgTm7SYUQqK5NprmBtglcXSAPrits7cWGt8GCu1d_3guX7Ws0Hrhi-VrZ1oTy_v-r_EwC2i4/s4160/IMG_20231007_145105.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn8IF7ByC7NL1X3mYVhL_IKtCnKbbSsU-wLeSSIP1ydYxAvK0BKyX-LK3_FgfHT4tgoKL1pFNjDDyYvLchYIRN0T5Jm1LOyUHN76RSLjicr9XaOUgMhjoEgTm7SYUQqK5NprmBtglcXSAPrits7cWGt8GCu1d_3guX7Ws0Hrhi-VrZ1oTy_v-r_EwC2i4/w480-h640/IMG_20231007_145105.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">50 Years of the<a href="https://embroiderersguild.com/"> Embroiderers Guild UK</a> marking the Graduate and Scholars Award with a wonderful record of past awards. I will be conversation with Jessica Grady, a former Guild graduate and fellow member of Art Textile Made in Britain on <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-demand-talking-threads-cas-holmes-and-jessica-grady-tickets-716058599547">14 December in Talking Threads</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj09c3EclsrF6LY8I6BnEg0DkH_XHJIlg6lupzFIFeH0IrGgljqFrLuHthseoPP8gGT4yLdlBD5Yq67WxtVdppm79zsXw5UAXc5jh4Cozg1ZpaidyWiAca5aUygPbpLUuHGLOmY9-sixzw8RGYtd1nfKyKJHV9I86NCXFF8dUdEiFiKoT8CLsLCajbsdI/s4160/IMG_20231007_122805.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj09c3EclsrF6LY8I6BnEg0DkH_XHJIlg6lupzFIFeH0IrGgljqFrLuHthseoPP8gGT4yLdlBD5Yq67WxtVdppm79zsXw5UAXc5jh4Cozg1ZpaidyWiAca5aUygPbpLUuHGLOmY9-sixzw8RGYtd1nfKyKJHV9I86NCXFF8dUdEiFiKoT8CLsLCajbsdI/w480-h640/IMG_20231007_122805.jpg" width="480" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Fine Art Textiles Award Winner Dr Ian Nigel Hurlstone, The Terrible Sight of Right and Wrong</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6dXpmaiaY-myOS5knzmRUc1t5icsKLu22v1Yt2zDNBU4MqEoZHCngVoK_lqLxvhmRR9j8ak4Oj8aEZ0uehFleAIceK1gLJooSrcKtRai3c7B_M92ZH_lqV-CwLvvy6KpLsOxibzoYjB4ZcOdAZyt0cDhuMtjxaosvkLOVSheVSTKAYehm_FKkuSldEv0/s4160/IMG_20231007_130927.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6dXpmaiaY-myOS5knzmRUc1t5icsKLu22v1Yt2zDNBU4MqEoZHCngVoK_lqLxvhmRR9j8ak4Oj8aEZ0uehFleAIceK1gLJooSrcKtRai3c7B_M92ZH_lqV-CwLvvy6KpLsOxibzoYjB4ZcOdAZyt0cDhuMtjxaosvkLOVSheVSTKAYehm_FKkuSldEv0/w640-h480/IMG_20231007_130927.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6mf29B_20P7TrmKeLlWP-pKtkkB6mI-ywOQfDLk16svI4hBz0xbz7cRW9KQUIAsT997YnBhWkbD6hOX6RQs5_NbA1QiyuX0NMVoq5WnAVXxZbZ_ZRjz50VUhwNi7jpkyheW17fzBnV1ETLTvuGn1PITVd5ay9yOyD_fOlm3pQ68Hl9x_P9UWQOLfzu30/w640-h426/IMG_3164.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And at the entrance the incredible <a href="https://domesticdusters.wordpress.com/about-this-project/">Duster Project by Vanessa Marr,</a> a</span><span style="font-size: large;"> collaborative arts project invites women to embroider their domestic experiences, complaints, and celebrations as words or images onto a yellow duster. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG0x9Fb-0wtPMsHX3g4Ca4V7E3aK8H44WbAH_XdZATZ07qlLSFeSZxi1xOIifZVOpKq_KulrM_1NFbN3bwvzOpLUNyCX85nS_2UlIrzT8W-VzUS1RtHC7PYv4pHuJFijIEVUWcHK8Un4dB0NopXDwLyxtdklKjxpL9zCo2F23ySIDxvYWKf-GS19ZP04E/s4032/IMG_6367.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG0x9Fb-0wtPMsHX3g4Ca4V7E3aK8H44WbAH_XdZATZ07qlLSFeSZxi1xOIifZVOpKq_KulrM_1NFbN3bwvzOpLUNyCX85nS_2UlIrzT8W-VzUS1RtHC7PYv4pHuJFijIEVUWcHK8Un4dB0NopXDwLyxtdklKjxpL9zCo2F23ySIDxvYWKf-GS19ZP04E/w480-h640/IMG_6367.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Photograph Courtesy of <a href="https://www.scottishislandliving.com/">Fiona Doubleday</a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">As I was meeting with friends at the Knitting and Stitching Show, Saturday was the last day of <a href="https://www.crafttownscotland.org/">Places, Spaces and Traces and Craft Town Scotland</a>. It move on to <a href="https://www.queenstreetgalleryneath.co.uk/future-exhibitions-1">Queen Street Gallery Neath</a> opening from 4-25th November. This body of work includes the Shipping Forecast and community responses</span></span></div></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Big thanks to friends and carers who are able to cover for me and to the members of the Art Textiles Made in Britain for their friendship and support.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-31654205237169877712023-10-01T11:18:00.003+01:002023-10-01T13:10:34.503+01:00Illuminate at the Knitting and Stitching Shows and West Dean Reflections<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I am delighted to be exhibiting with<b> <a href="https://www.arttextilesmadeinbritain.co.uk/">Art Textiles Made in Britain</a></b> launching our new exhibition Illuminate at <b style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.theknittingandstitchingshow.com/">The Knitting and Stitching Shows,</a> </b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: center;">Alexandra Palace, </span><span style="text-align: center;">London </span><span style="text-align: center;">5 - 8 October and the </span><span style="text-align: center;">Harrogate Convention Centre, </span><span style="text-align: center;">16 - 19 November</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAPZ7X5H_Vh4gW7Ma13JzmvnGhtU9qsDqa7BPsU0wTHRqM73pzfSxxN5m39oiuzczxZVecmBAwiyZRX7fp7NQAAsvl4kU2-KVdWI85a4k8RXPOjbvet9O-aL5Je3X3PCxPLsDvIlLbC-ckaBvgkDOpJaIoFePM6Tx9aqObwGa4DMBY3M-OMaZSsCTHSyw/s526/374700812_601502848851678_4015994722201320115_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="526" height="608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAPZ7X5H_Vh4gW7Ma13JzmvnGhtU9qsDqa7BPsU0wTHRqM73pzfSxxN5m39oiuzczxZVecmBAwiyZRX7fp7NQAAsvl4kU2-KVdWI85a4k8RXPOjbvet9O-aL5Je3X3PCxPLsDvIlLbC-ckaBvgkDOpJaIoFePM6Tx9aqObwGa4DMBY3M-OMaZSsCTHSyw/w640-h608/374700812_601502848851678_4015994722201320115_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="text-align: center;">I hope to be able to attend Saturday and Sunday afternoon so please come along and say hello. </span></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirwhLz1EijYqAsSpsb9-sYuJraWVbBj3yRbDCuCZ_OnDscsHfZqOpZYfYm8Tcec7ptoOHF5DW_bM9hM3UTmptxdHckNVcoAgsl-4oKD53dEGqx160o_Wx6vOqDqUUf1e-9wryCID-N1vW3F65nLuVDFlcyi4KNHNhbUMAXU_GY5vSVZpjmJWnxSB7lOKo/s4000/IMG_1633.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirwhLz1EijYqAsSpsb9-sYuJraWVbBj3yRbDCuCZ_OnDscsHfZqOpZYfYm8Tcec7ptoOHF5DW_bM9hM3UTmptxdHckNVcoAgsl-4oKD53dEGqx160o_Wx6vOqDqUUf1e-9wryCID-N1vW3F65nLuVDFlcyi4KNHNhbUMAXU_GY5vSVZpjmJWnxSB7lOKo/w640-h480/IMG_1633.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">I had a few days away teaching Personal Journals at<a href="https://www.westdean.ac.uk/"> West Dean College</a> last week. <span style="text-align: left;">We took full advantage of the glorious weather and </span><a href="https://www.westdean.ac.uk/gardens" style="text-align: left;">West Dean Gardens.</a></div></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLEQSpr4hgZcxkxh4E1lGpHz78m4V6k5gGx-zzpqYm30MjgiW-qAU27UgERVfndJdftG__QhE-XZ6o2I8CXwRqbfVa8UTaZTODtwxo41vpF95Oh-B4JpDaZb4EeFDQtqrDLiGgkrvx8d5r9LMG9PAq9p_bESEPhrDliha9epDvbpFnMKDaI4Kkc29r5o4/s4000/IMG_1665.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLEQSpr4hgZcxkxh4E1lGpHz78m4V6k5gGx-zzpqYm30MjgiW-qAU27UgERVfndJdftG__QhE-XZ6o2I8CXwRqbfVa8UTaZTODtwxo41vpF95Oh-B4JpDaZb4EeFDQtqrDLiGgkrvx8d5r9LMG9PAq9p_bESEPhrDliha9epDvbpFnMKDaI4Kkc29r5o4/w640-h480/IMG_1665.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Below are some examples of work in progress by hard working students who shared and exchanged their learning. Thank you all for allowing me to share images and take part in your learning. It has been over a year since I was last able to go away and teach so it was so good to be back in the studio with other people.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBMlQK7SG91LXCKRAhzLmTExfJYG2TjY42BouR-VDGkxOLdX9qTPhyphenhyphenOopcGVdoeSxrgjUnQXw7tpUq1GYoRkQ4Xcf5EaATjsdyodVeVqRi6_0CkEtX-D7mqhK1hxLdXZzR5kxkJ4-FcteMErdMESK8A1DTwShIskPxv6Cs054GjTo5zF92ns2JvdV1qe8/s4000/IMG_1675.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBMlQK7SG91LXCKRAhzLmTExfJYG2TjY42BouR-VDGkxOLdX9qTPhyphenhyphenOopcGVdoeSxrgjUnQXw7tpUq1GYoRkQ4Xcf5EaATjsdyodVeVqRi6_0CkEtX-D7mqhK1hxLdXZzR5kxkJ4-FcteMErdMESK8A1DTwShIskPxv6Cs054GjTo5zF92ns2JvdV1qe8/w640-h480/IMG_1675.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Leslie</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2717" data-original-width="4000" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV03kRU1QL2M2v7HfsF79BdXnijJnHLCRV67kr7G3ZBzmzGk7f2jzJ1-KUEQ40zmzBGrSftqEFextg9PY7c7uSUTSJwNBsqu0p0RZ5MsmP0yB3Wop3A72VqRepVlTWJpdLRTZjldhojuK7jr4ujyX57yxKYqt8Jmzh9Jah09vlZGcnOtaxY79dIxMODx8/w640-h434/IMG_1696.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Louise</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKydPTvpuV1-7UsfE_LMDB1P22qRtHsezt-dI9UNUQZScRncBJ7W2HYOlo1Frco0fwjuP64XPh6ez9lt3esdJjug7Fz8NdWIDMjot_x4DKoZLNrU0lSTCAjcuEvKD4Q-Ks2hLxLkOHaoSkaORs0E4p7SKu2H2fJwkByDwRMsRqL4TNJ7f8T0jHPT6oFpo/s3822/IMG_1719.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2887" data-original-width="3822" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKydPTvpuV1-7UsfE_LMDB1P22qRtHsezt-dI9UNUQZScRncBJ7W2HYOlo1Frco0fwjuP64XPh6ez9lt3esdJjug7Fz8NdWIDMjot_x4DKoZLNrU0lSTCAjcuEvKD4Q-Ks2hLxLkOHaoSkaORs0E4p7SKu2H2fJwkByDwRMsRqL4TNJ7f8T0jHPT6oFpo/w640-h484/IMG_1719.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Liz</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1QaBC_Oz7WD6JN-bS1eNMGiOSj5mQQWIdxjHlsew4RB3BBxoPLcB_pZMcxzTW242raZ6tnPLc5ALVuGxJblWuJMv_fbfA_mUI7CaU_RuJTEW2MDCsoph0arDXH27pHahmp4EkGefqD9mzFA6z9xW32AgmbyGRWYVKSTMkcRoeCwF0buaOroLv7jB6qgY/w480-h640/IMG_1736.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><span style="text-align: left;"><p style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: left;">I am back<a href="https://www.westdean.ac.uk/short-courses/s2d13505-art-textiles-canvas-paper-text-and-image"> March 18-20th for Canvas, Paper, Text and Image </a>course.</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I was also able to get out into the gardens to draw and just be. Thankyou for the Calm, Care and Creativity over the last few days.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #050505; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwI2GUi5uiiyhIwkkAdlxeWTJFop727XUaURrfbrBpry94R3czcyLbACU62PvjECRPc5SFGD5QJ63u7ScrEOpceV8U2XjQyYEO84O2zdSpnkFUcXuDc7JdyMG1NZU6KndjhUqgmUA8OImohNsPUABYtBOZSsiQRjAb8EmpFy40sxdb0a1i-LixmpemMC0/s4000/IMG_1622.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwI2GUi5uiiyhIwkkAdlxeWTJFop727XUaURrfbrBpry94R3czcyLbACU62PvjECRPc5SFGD5QJ63u7ScrEOpceV8U2XjQyYEO84O2zdSpnkFUcXuDc7JdyMG1NZU6KndjhUqgmUA8OImohNsPUABYtBOZSsiQRjAb8EmpFy40sxdb0a1i-LixmpemMC0/w640-h480/IMG_1622.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Unidentified Meaningful Object </b>- Wednesday <a href="https://www.nucleusarts.com/jumpstart-booking/p/190423-p4jzt-kc5jg-pkmfx-crpc8-clx33">15th November 2023 - 1.30pm - 4pm at Nucleus Arts Centre in Chatham.</a> This p</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">roject initiated by artist<a href="https://www.facebook.com/liesbethwertstextileartist/photos/"> Liesbeth Werts</a> and myself looks at the </span></span><span style="text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">creation of small wrapped objects connected to things we may not always feel comfortable talking about as well as the things we care about.</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> You can also take part and contribute to an installation<b> </b></span><span style="text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Unspoken, Truth and Silence t</b>o be shown at the <a href="https://www.nucleusarts.com/halpern-chatham">Halpern Gallery in Chatham, Kent (18-31st January 2024)</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsS6LESFnCvzs3XyAeHgnjLMmW9_KpRn23ZogZjIxgAxNrYoFEE0CniuD_RRvJoj7IrwpDU34TMeMiuqZ6MgSV7k6igE-mIh72FFus7W-7WXvsiJ-nv9mOSYnYIhQqq4RNQvIMm__vk0FuLBMsK6aGFmojO9UlYG53zt-58hHdGrnXUb57y0WNwFQn4AU/s5184/Unidentified%20Meaningful%20Objects%20(8).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsS6LESFnCvzs3XyAeHgnjLMmW9_KpRn23ZogZjIxgAxNrYoFEE0CniuD_RRvJoj7IrwpDU34TMeMiuqZ6MgSV7k6igE-mIh72FFus7W-7WXvsiJ-nv9mOSYnYIhQqq4RNQvIMm__vk0FuLBMsK6aGFmojO9UlYG53zt-58hHdGrnXUb57y0WNwFQn4AU/w640-h426/Unidentified%20Meaningful%20Objects%20(8).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div></span><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p></div>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-78546640443194789662023-09-18T17:10:00.002+01:002023-09-21T10:01:33.497+01:00All Things Nautical<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The last couple of weeks have had a definite nautical theme to them. My exhibition Places, Spaces, Traces launched at the <a href="http://www.crafttownscotland.org/barony-centre-main/">Barony Centre, West Kilbride</a> at the end of August. This exhibition is a community engagement project supported by <a href="https://www.craftscotland.org/whats-on/event/places-spaces-traces-2516">Craft Town Scotland</a>. The images of the open event have kindly be sent by<a href="https://www.scottishislandliving.com/"> Fiona Doubleday </a>and Sam Bannister</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-SLBYLHFImCOizVvXBkzRlfrQhUIyB2zfKbqrdzLMOfdU-p7RoYj-l372V-5vDYZLqDlc9O5uNdsQ6iZG9e-3qbncWDFMcpu6IFZSK2YRp8NYXbXBLkk56Ka6Q5Iu-YqpSjgIIfHJDCC-VFhJtAPtBgKi34Km4Dq295NLs4F9P2A9_xe98c0pMiPB4Js/s4032/IMG_6371.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-SLBYLHFImCOizVvXBkzRlfrQhUIyB2zfKbqrdzLMOfdU-p7RoYj-l372V-5vDYZLqDlc9O5uNdsQ6iZG9e-3qbncWDFMcpu6IFZSK2YRp8NYXbXBLkk56Ka6Q5Iu-YqpSjgIIfHJDCC-VFhJtAPtBgKi34Km4Dq295NLs4F9P2A9_xe98c0pMiPB4Js/w480-h640/IMG_6371.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fiona Doubleday reports:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cas Holmes has collaborated with</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/459589531734381/?__cft__[0]=AZVyfJ-1uvNKy4Jz-44WN14EueTX8aVPZWBGZ0xyrMrdRiHW3p22Y-kVYSxB0DFzehJLS55KNBfmOzN9YLvVmeHQmgFpyMmSpXg1a-Z18BkapVKU82IzK2yD-ZFY0fZi1fhhM5mqXFIgWgxWYZy4AL11iQZcMv_c_gA7EeT5pBB90FMH6yGQGVUy7LQxjlfYWRg09FzS7YvJMZSmV0zanjS5&__tn__=-UK-y-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline;"> Scottish Potters Communit</span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">y, the local primary school and the New Scots group which includes refugees now living in Scotland. The exhibition is designed to be wandered through and, as you do, you can't help but immerse yourself in the sentiments behind each and every piece. Stitched Stories has a piece in it that travelled to Antwerp with Cas and has now come back to Scotland where our story began. This is a remarkable exhibition that speaks so many truths about human resilience and the need for compassion. Cas had begun a conversation that needs to continue</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://youtu.be/qCA376IuK34?feature=shared">You can see her video walk round the exhibition here</a></span></div><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6HuZ0dG0Z9I8TmEc9J6vsz23ouVQf1PivxXKPpG4bfBidFadCXCkwpJyTT4cEh327zkmc1g-F8i-KWWQ2n8MESRsfRhghLKTBTBdZZfgANV1MD73IfxqAihY268-VycHk-5Z97PQaSU2dxIbYxnftwR17kkTI9noVMmIXajGCfN0ROCXyBhNz7dEVkVE/s4032/IMG_6529.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: 18px;">Annie Morrison</span><p></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBIbGYJQMtlObhNGVZ2eqbLoAb5WFUeLGym9ofWq1J3vvAkOkAxVOdNKjJjt6zZux8CkGWsexJ9GWzUKgxQHzTCkF57Sk9YZQaRQAvn3y6HZExJRTi9v9Gv9GDRn6VURLV5qTi9aZtvg0Zl-LURf1ecp6ohdindLn_r56HXhUTl3gaOfoscrKMYRAPIYs/s4032/received_6769135183169304.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBIbGYJQMtlObhNGVZ2eqbLoAb5WFUeLGym9ofWq1J3vvAkOkAxVOdNKjJjt6zZux8CkGWsexJ9GWzUKgxQHzTCkF57Sk9YZQaRQAvn3y6HZExJRTi9v9Gv9GDRn6VURLV5qTi9aZtvg0Zl-LURf1ecp6ohdindLn_r56HXhUTl3gaOfoscrKMYRAPIYs/w480-h640/received_6769135183169304.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">West Kilbride Primary</span><p></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimG6d2ud_fqEulKVIvuuElh3TeMtqJDhpTeofnDlOdbsuYkbEHzZfwXRH8fIegntFeNF48Ysd2hx3-BIauXI2tCuT9QD4p2ToKRpJI2o-RUQqpl7j6MbpiaF1uhZdT1ohKhyX-0gQPMsPF9jvmWp4GMPYjEzKObPnMSgsyuPJ_-c90lCnzYFfg72fqOIk/s3582/IMG_6532.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3582" data-original-width="3002" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimG6d2ud_fqEulKVIvuuElh3TeMtqJDhpTeofnDlOdbsuYkbEHzZfwXRH8fIegntFeNF48Ysd2hx3-BIauXI2tCuT9QD4p2ToKRpJI2o-RUQqpl7j6MbpiaF1uhZdT1ohKhyX-0gQPMsPF9jvmWp4GMPYjEzKObPnMSgsyuPJ_-c90lCnzYFfg72fqOIk/w536-h640/IMG_6532.jpeg" width="536" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A Story Cloth of our Time, 52 Stitched Stories, led by Fiona Doubleday</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf_Vkkd0ZDqWm_iqccZ0nbix2OaAYTbMyx2hKByuiyoSbFJixFhPWwt_rEY8LeqNLDhlhZ8PbRf6WPD8ZLSWEBiEhAF_0DPvGRZ49iOymP_MIqWuKw_0j2f8Huy7m8X8V0_pn2Mj5mIkzMTg3iRrdOZ9zAzC6n63YWRZdxaHvzsbpKZwb1M73x9BpENNA/s3013/received_319931137246127.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2886" data-original-width="3013" height="614" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf_Vkkd0ZDqWm_iqccZ0nbix2OaAYTbMyx2hKByuiyoSbFJixFhPWwt_rEY8LeqNLDhlhZ8PbRf6WPD8ZLSWEBiEhAF_0DPvGRZ49iOymP_MIqWuKw_0j2f8Huy7m8X8V0_pn2Mj5mIkzMTg3iRrdOZ9zAzC6n63YWRZdxaHvzsbpKZwb1M73x9BpENNA/w640-h614/received_319931137246127.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">What We Miss, What We Value. Online group</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">That I have been able to continue to collaborate and create has been down to friendships built over the years. It was lovely to get a few hours away over the last few weeks and as close to the water as I can. I met up with good friends at <a href="https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/">Fibre Arts Tales Two </a> to celebrate 60 years of <a href="https://lv21.co.uk/"> Light Vessel 21 </a>and hoist sails on a Thames Barge with Tiller and Wheel.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Who knew that a sail could be so heavy?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Q4IKXCMkfCZpUf7Epg5r5cJDB_LWOFMESwqC8ME46TjZd8BZWtukP48Uf9KIajYzH46gf5Y7gGLNmFf9gL81VyjNTlIHV3O406HFyYdg5gMY5g5Ou7E2lBxD810w6Cd2Ue4dEOKauc12EKQvebroSSdYn5hoJsCTuGBn33bMQZNqZq52uKga-FSfcoU/s1024/IMG-20230916-WA0028.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Q4IKXCMkfCZpUf7Epg5r5cJDB_LWOFMESwqC8ME46TjZd8BZWtukP48Uf9KIajYzH46gf5Y7gGLNmFf9gL81VyjNTlIHV3O406HFyYdg5gMY5g5Ou7E2lBxD810w6Cd2Ue4dEOKauc12EKQvebroSSdYn5hoJsCTuGBn33bMQZNqZq52uKga-FSfcoU/w480-h640/IMG-20230916-WA0028.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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height: 800px; margin: 0px; width: 800px;" width="800" /></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica neue, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br />This collaborative exhibition is an exploration of the concept of ‘place’ and our understanding of the importance of heritage; how our inherited traditions, monuments, objects, and culture can impact upon our identities and the space we call ‘home’.<br />I am, joined by selected members of the Scottish Potters Association, West Kilbride Primary School children, and the North Ayrshire based New Scots.<br /><img data-cke-saved-src="https://mcusercontent.com/28a33d21ffb5ab198f1b10396/images/f7270f42-1eb8-2b44-58cf-092869d2d76c.jpeg" data-file-id="6495391" height="800" src="https://mcusercontent.com/28a33d21ffb5ab198f1b10396/images/f7270f42-1eb8-2b44-58cf-092869d2d76c.jpeg" style="border: 0px; height: 800px; margin: 0px; width: 600px;" width="600" /><br /></span></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">That this exhibition has been possible has been down to the support by the hanging team at the Barony Centre and to <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.fionadartisan.com/" href="https://www.fionadartisan.com/" target="_blank">Fiona Doubleday,</a> Faye Waterlow and Coral Smith for hanging the work. The opening event is on</span><strong><span style="font-family: arial;"> the afternoon of Thursday 31st August. Please contact <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.crafttownscotland.org/" href="http://www.crafttownscotland.org/" target="_blank">Craft Town Scotland </a>for details</span><br /><br /></strong></span></p><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><img data-cke-saved-src="https://mcusercontent.com/28a33d21ffb5ab198f1b10396/images/050a8192-4de3-74ad-7c2d-ee1895331ff6.jpg" data-file-id="6495395" height="533" src="https://mcusercontent.com/28a33d21ffb5ab198f1b10396/images/050a8192-4de3-74ad-7c2d-ee1895331ff6.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 533px; margin: 0px; width: 800px;" width="800" /><br /></strong></span><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><br /></strong></span>I am equally delighted to be running a course at West Dean College PERSONAL JOURNALS – SOURCING INSPIRATION FOR TEXTILES from 25-28th September. This is my only residential course this year.</h1><span style="font-size: 18px;">Artists always make reference to other images and narrative. In this workshop you will look at developing ideas through creative journals and sketchbooks as a starting point for textile based work and design ideas. Using the images, patterns and textures found in the building and grounds of West Dean and/or from your own design source, you will start your own visual diary and look at creating sketches and design ideas in unconventional ways. These will be used as a base to start torn paper drawings and textile mixed-media processes to start evolving ideas for a piece of work.<br /><br />This workshop offers a unique insight into the tutor’s approach to gathering ideas and resources from the world around you. It will reflect her own observations and working methods resulting from her artist’s residency at the College.<br /><br />The journal and samples resulting from this creative exploration could be used as a starting point to your own creative practice for mixed media and textile-based work, in three-dimensions, books or collage.<strong></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">Please visit my <a data-cke-saved-href="https://casholmes.wordpress.com/" href="https://casholmes.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">website </a>for all current news and details of workshops and exhibitions.<br /></span></span>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-20972699630431918822023-08-13T14:49:00.029+01:002023-08-14T20:31:03.548+01:00The Value of Uncertainty, Recycling and Exhibition at Craft Town Scotland<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I had a fabulous interview with<a href="https://www.mrxstitch.com/"> Jamie Chalmers of Mr X Sttitch </a>fame where we discuss the use of found materials alongside an alchemical philosophy, where the creativity is discovered at the edge of uncertainty.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Also discuss is the fearlessness of surrendering to artistic flow, how to be resilient when life throws curveballs at you, and the value in paying attention to the everyday.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You can see the <a href="https://youtu.be/K10JIxcufzw" target="_blank">podcast on needlexchange</a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjU1gP-kvbpK-rU06kUStf_Yo_aLLI8nD_ogWMBey_QoR4-1DI_wrgT-FN6wM2xLEqEA1j0XpxBLSApRW9H9h7iL9GqLa6ZhDKWbGEDU6c4conT-MnnqzgbEn_pOcTRAgJ1bEBVNo2ZdtXvv5q0AXkidITwe7JFWUGhHRIbc122sz8EAcgr78v-7oywd5A" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="960" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQIk8fj0fO0f7xVn1hCi8P8mAODCI-bQGu0Q_vue_cgtydBKVE8kRR7LUzhgMbEY7hqMQJro6dbgaUVJeAtyOM6bRTpkdtnEHtAuuNCcTs5gbIszpTp8hGml3YorD3idxmHAYYSD6N7g9jgTkqQHgJUn2i8P19FwnRCZSmZycr-SDn8l2oiXibF0eC2Oc/w640-h244/365821489_773849458077896_7206514605219419223_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The exhibition at the Barony Centre includes work by </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.scottishpotters.org/">Scottish Potters Association</a> and </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">the local community and explores the concept of ‘place’ and our understanding of the importance of heritage; how our inherited traditions, monuments, objects, and culture can impact upon our identities and our space we call ‘home’.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Images and further details will be posted next month.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">The Japanese Aesthetics of Recycling Exhibition at the </span><a href="https://www.soas.ac.uk/campus/brunei-gallery" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Brunei Gallery, SOAS</a></b></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I saw a wonderful exhibition the Japanese Aesthetics of Recycling at the Brunei Gallery on Friday where I was able to see b</span><span style="font-family: arial;">eautiful historic examples of Boro, Washi and other other textiles informed by the Yugen/Wabi-Sabi philosophy. 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="901" data-original-width="1630" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_cSJ9L2R0g04nfrcqdJJrO_bGRT7PFFclFJzZHIdk6xILnyhgbKuMG9VwatDguYgo4oVvN12ZvsJ4I2fToF_EWnt7fP3NoRGTCIwyl2PNRz0thPJPzfUve0XjqZ7Xm6WeWNzim1gr5xZkyzzPdbdfqHHgOfmJjmmTJm3JvbioGXW80ZXerbU5wwP4QPk/w640-h354/Screenshot%20(5).png" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The interview was on a lovely sunny day and we had the chance to look at how I got into textiles, the stories we tell and the value of the creative community. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I also had a lovely day at<a href="https://www.whitstable.co.uk/"> Whitstable</a> with friends.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We visited <a href="https://thehorsebridge.org.uk/whats_on/galleries">The Horsebridge Arts Centre </a>and caught The Lost Island by </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Amanda Vigor and </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Subliminal influences </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sue Bridge, Jeanette Cook and Zel Hunt. Hurry as both exhibitions finish on 31stJuly</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh3iuCHu_0Idh4Zb1x46hMWYHzH-ER4_KjXL3d7NNgIAVhlTRDePQoLpb3EHlQERp-_IqXzlSzM32KRKvbuGl9omfbQr7Go2PAHTb58kmzfLZmQk_zlFZsQf3Nw6yimgQmBymm8Li6VOzPL5wWdacJI6lTUAWr1ca6AzwJgjx1yXz-lKChU7gubX5Ku0c/s1280/Lost_Island_Brochure_Large.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="901" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh3iuCHu_0Idh4Zb1x46hMWYHzH-ER4_KjXL3d7NNgIAVhlTRDePQoLpb3EHlQERp-_IqXzlSzM32KRKvbuGl9omfbQr7Go2PAHTb58kmzfLZmQk_zlFZsQf3Nw6yimgQmBymm8Li6VOzPL5wWdacJI6lTUAWr1ca6AzwJgjx1yXz-lKChU7gubX5Ku0c/w450-h640/Lost_Island_Brochure_Large.jpeg" width="450" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlBGp2VNTx74VpyzGATS_qs5Og0qcdsu_Ml4fK1twXwbNGHlsDfNRly43kIMQtjjyyHfKf8IXyinuIS1PDuWOQ9pgagpQBIJQYFHbbXsieXv66uXM1PyBWH3WwXUqHvzTM7lRSxq2ghFAOJKO3KdC_Ix8wu5F78DOG61UyXmFBaQDSCgjQ--vJRS06Yw8/s1000/publicity.sq.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlBGp2VNTx74VpyzGATS_qs5Og0qcdsu_Ml4fK1twXwbNGHlsDfNRly43kIMQtjjyyHfKf8IXyinuIS1PDuWOQ9pgagpQBIJQYFHbbXsieXv66uXM1PyBWH3WwXUqHvzTM7lRSxq2ghFAOJKO3KdC_Ix8wu5F78DOG61UyXmFBaQDSCgjQ--vJRS06Yw8/w640-h640/publicity.sq.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I so enjoyed searching for shells and hagstones whilst taking in the sea air.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtXzc86zT0-nyh3xccvImzsAW-DKXPd9VgBp-ezUILdJASc6d_TRTJGrPm-b22noZAE08Q6EmY3osuPvXm5Z_TC-98NSrDtNfgHm5s1JameVOD9G8Fh8aZg9taEXCwgMUlS_V_tuLO-Oefh5riWzGcWUbO59rRIbIuoUc737SU6izvw6uQq3xNktIDPu0/s1080/363362710_803562661614557_3106260066035442234_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtXzc86zT0-nyh3xccvImzsAW-DKXPd9VgBp-ezUILdJASc6d_TRTJGrPm-b22noZAE08Q6EmY3osuPvXm5Z_TC-98NSrDtNfgHm5s1JameVOD9G8Fh8aZg9taEXCwgMUlS_V_tuLO-Oefh5riWzGcWUbO59rRIbIuoUc737SU6izvw6uQq3xNktIDPu0/w400-h400/363362710_803562661614557_3106260066035442234_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEtM7hBFM8BdWr9QNb1coepg-a6WEhWlrWu5o_zLcyKcYbRdsgzq2dnxwc1iZNPuiFoCDOrAxBo3APTmfMBTcoVtyZz4Nk9FTeu_tBxMJ6hTkf7uvHx6GmkAOFsBtZ4_QAcW1ryXty5731e8Hn1YIj9TzZ3f10BVKDT0sJVr5KAxyaMEbpueUAwKG5IVw/w400-h400/363407170_803562671614556_7401015162034169792_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Look out for my next posting when I will be sharing news about my forthcoming exhibition in Scotland and a behind the lovely <a href="https://xstitchmag.com/subscribe/">Jamie Chalmers of XStitch</a> Magazine uncovers more about the real world of being an this artist. </span><p></p><p><br /></p>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-22434763254837701782023-06-27T12:55:00.024+01:002023-06-27T13:03:49.906+01:00Out in the World, A Sense of Place<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>It was fabulous to have been able to exhibit at the <a href="https://www.batsfordbooks.com/b-t-batsford-shop-gallery/">Batsford Gallery</a> last week with <a href="https://rosiejamestextileartist.wordpress.com/about/">Rosie James</a>. I</span><span>n this installation we embraced the opportunity to bring two bodies of work together which appeared to speak to each other about people and place.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqKSazm3WQyECDL3k0u4Z721wD8j7kchoIDNtUWCRdCM1KzOiCDagBjCgzkzoGyTIFANVBBxEq-Y4Fv9fxby7s2rL_aZFiXtKtNuTgydkoaFhd4rcpJCP0186yyAph_IUrqvzLhdJhMVBFpxe8EtyFQ8pmFvkEbAwe-9wo2MRM2JXjdzY8zcR2fWrytzs/s4160/IMG_20230601_180045.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqKSazm3WQyECDL3k0u4Z721wD8j7kchoIDNtUWCRdCM1KzOiCDagBjCgzkzoGyTIFANVBBxEq-Y4Fv9fxby7s2rL_aZFiXtKtNuTgydkoaFhd4rcpJCP0186yyAph_IUrqvzLhdJhMVBFpxe8EtyFQ8pmFvkEbAwe-9wo2MRM2JXjdzY8zcR2fWrytzs/w640-h480/IMG_20230601_180045.jpg" width="640" /></span></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiQM8g0iBv_HTiFXrqsr7KebSNTpWMRBPrwbiIxOS2oK_L8uJ82WhhADuh1uu0rYft05vtRDwThtO0oLZTUMHYh6R5dwzw15GCwu0N2_69mW466vFgo_zyGgfwgRu0HswiVGsufc8Gn86qegxJBKLcktT0hcYVxMSmBxhn4cpB1PvbyCtnfxbYkADcxU0/s4000/IMG_1368.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: medium;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHRWwUIDKgQz-DTZ1ovwYm0qy3orBmrLUpZlVdJBNONCYNlLeE4jCzuHYzZs6ty3YGyKehIy5sg2TbGCrpyb2aJIJdySt5s-LPMl3uSVHdnEIyWcFxlosMDzFL2o0ut0Vt0qJumGjpvuabWH1NCmcxCqIHMiGUdx9KWr_kyzAQFz54R1EHobpVSQCHHfs/s1080/IMG_20230622_212848_091.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHRWwUIDKgQz-DTZ1ovwYm0qy3orBmrLUpZlVdJBNONCYNlLeE4jCzuHYzZs6ty3YGyKehIy5sg2TbGCrpyb2aJIJdySt5s-LPMl3uSVHdnEIyWcFxlosMDzFL2o0ut0Vt0qJumGjpvuabWH1NCmcxCqIHMiGUdx9KWr_kyzAQFz54R1EHobpVSQCHHfs/w640-h640/IMG_20230622_212848_091.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Cloud Crowd and Shipping Forecast reflect upon the movement of people whether in a hurry for work, leisure or even in some cases forced to flee.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>Travel and migration are part of human history. We saw the possibility of reflecting on this story by the interaction of these </span><span>and other </span><span>works</span><span> included in the show.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/rAHvF6mEPB0">The Shipping Forecast </a>and other featured works moves to <a href="http://www.crafttownscotland.org/barony-centre-main/">The Barony Centre, Craft Town Scotland </a>at the end of August.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It was great to also spread my wings and spend just a little time with a friend and mooching around Brick Lane.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIdnAVTtp9Xpe6UYL6N5fWuIwePKlGu5kYtpsnufy0Xnlq7k5wWiGkxPgH9z3QOc76E0P1eJVYe4DoFV1QrfkshfJAHWEzHbrz3QxFmwKKaqhVb0Oa6MnorNPYKFt7pfbY9h1m4NHITK0pjHhni_VyqqBqg59F4hl5rK6VK6JIo0QXBjEXqCz-VsR6B9Y/s2000/1677343311.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1998" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIdnAVTtp9Xpe6UYL6N5fWuIwePKlGu5kYtpsnufy0Xnlq7k5wWiGkxPgH9z3QOc76E0P1eJVYe4DoFV1QrfkshfJAHWEzHbrz3QxFmwKKaqhVb0Oa6MnorNPYKFt7pfbY9h1m4NHITK0pjHhni_VyqqBqg59F4hl5rK6VK6JIo0QXBjEXqCz-VsR6B9Y/w400-h400/1677343311.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Talking of spreading my wings I am </span><span style="font-family: arial;">delighted to be exhibiting Summer Grass and Sedge Warbler pictured above in 'Stitch by Stitch', An exhibition for established and emerging textile artists working with stitch, fabric and mixed media. at the<a href="https://willowgalleryoswestry.org/"> Willow Gallery Oswestry f</a>rom Saturday 1st July – Saturday 19th Augus</span><span style="font-family: arial;">t</span><p></p><p></p><br /><p></p>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-59154509420151010462023-05-28T19:48:00.000+01:002023-05-28T19:48:13.816+01:00A Sense of Place<p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "PT Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3TfzcnuBt49HAJ_z7224o6V6W2xLItpnXVMkBrU0IIK59-FtO6gf31CAqPshJSay6FJRr3AmdIuKgEb-MWt47o1HYOals8vsyTWP0toQNuj1P8wGSOd4mWUJRqUsf9hShrdVXO9lBNXPfb0oTLsGBM9ky8OG6rlmLQYnpVnm-cAn4Ja_-BrLTFhqK" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1984" data-original-width="1488" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3TfzcnuBt49HAJ_z7224o6V6W2xLItpnXVMkBrU0IIK59-FtO6gf31CAqPshJSay6FJRr3AmdIuKgEb-MWt47o1HYOals8vsyTWP0toQNuj1P8wGSOd4mWUJRqUsf9hShrdVXO9lBNXPfb0oTLsGBM9ky8OG6rlmLQYnpVnm-cAn4Ja_-BrLTFhqK=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Rosie James Crowd Cloud</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "PT Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Cas Holmes and <a href="https://rosiejamestextileartist.wordpress.com/">Rosie James,</a> are exhibiting A Sense of Place in their first collaborative exhibition.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "PT Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuy_ssn--uKJrz180pUsoehwppat6CRKcXhRnhGzLvO8V3xEvKBMy55ZeMD4GLNpq9ZoI-hFsBRw9XqiOixtqds8HXiSShMTo14-9fg29eHvu48bzl6vdEeAtCoEUqpWjdltpM2CjJf5PXqtxwc61dAgy_AyCSL_XD0wgVXjexEVVXj3BbVHtkA1xy" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuy_ssn--uKJrz180pUsoehwppat6CRKcXhRnhGzLvO8V3xEvKBMy55ZeMD4GLNpq9ZoI-hFsBRw9XqiOixtqds8HXiSShMTo14-9fg29eHvu48bzl6vdEeAtCoEUqpWjdltpM2CjJf5PXqtxwc61dAgy_AyCSL_XD0wgVXjexEVVXj3BbVHtkA1xy" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cas Holmes The Shipping Forecast</div></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "PT Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">In this installation in B.T. Batsford Shop and Gallery they embrace the opportunity to bring two bodies of work together speak to each other about people and place.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #303030; font-family: "PT Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Cloud Crowd and Shipping Forecast reflect upon the movement of people whether in a hurry for work, leisure or even in some cases forced to flee.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #303030; font-family: "PT Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Travel and migration are part of human history. We saw the possibility of reflecting on this story by the interaction of these works.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #303030; font-family: "PT Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.batsfordbooks.com/b-t-batsford-shop-gallery/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; max-width: unset;">The exhibition runs from 2-22nd June at B.T. Batsford Shop and Gallery</a></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #303030; font-family: "PT Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Meet the artists and book signing on Thursday 22nd June 12-3pm</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #303030; font-family: "PT Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">OPENING HOURS:<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" />Thursday–Friday 12–7<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" />Saturday–Sunday 11–6</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #303030; font-family: "PT Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">266 Hackney Road<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" />London E2 7SJ</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #303030; font-family: "PT Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Follow us on social media<a href="https://www.instagram.com/btbatsford/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; max-width: unset;"> @BTBatsford</a><br style="box-sizing: inherit; 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background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #303030; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">Stitches and Stories article by Faye Freeman in Spring/Summer edition of <a href="https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/">Travellers Times.</a></span><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/"> </a>Features my work for </span> <span style="color: black;">Gypsy Maker 4 with the <a href="https://www.romaniarts.co.uk/">Romani Cultural and Arts Company</a> </span><span style="color: black;">and tracing the connection between my work and my Romani heritage.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thankyou to </span><span style="animation-name: none !important; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: left; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/LightVessel21?__cft__[0]=AZVtDeIu3KJYcoU9BI5RztPf2L1DV8iOtUdFkXSYYdsC1UNAbc7LHcvgZCA5nYA3uacf7pdsH-vjDWc4YuEdqvobMw7B-5kh4kloQw-D8exw5T95aTD4dZb8VPUXaQSwimiZn8AAHtN4kZKny2vRpTHOypdbRCFJ_05_VbSD7DJbs8WruxSnGjtPifvhUexbzlw&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; animation-name: none !important; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #303030; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #303030; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #303030; font-family: "PT Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #303030; font-family: "PT Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></p>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-13717808350724908352023-05-06T17:56:00.002+01:002023-05-06T17:58:29.434+01:00Hop-Kins at Whose Hoo Festival<p><span face=""PT Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-size: 20px;">Hop-Kins will one of several art installations on show at the </span><a href="https://whosehooheritagefestival.org/" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: "PT Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; max-width: unset;">Whose Hoo Festival </a><span face=""PT Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-size: 20px;">on Saturday 13th May at Slough Fort</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijHaf2yeN7cDareXmGGu5wKkF3woKqhE0S58KmM_un5lbCvnvZM_g995drSHPP3qlsGS2iUrMbL0q1uTMBPYg_nf3QJ2wEyyl5w4xpdCRxkGPqp0AzwPCbdTk6QiWIYDl0L5E0NWNzH3s91braOQLp9ZHz_OXM5JbUftXbsHjsXtTdAsieggRtTrr4/s1558/Screenshot%202023-05-06%2017.25.37.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="1558" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijHaf2yeN7cDareXmGGu5wKkF3woKqhE0S58KmM_un5lbCvnvZM_g995drSHPP3qlsGS2iUrMbL0q1uTMBPYg_nf3QJ2wEyyl5w4xpdCRxkGPqp0AzwPCbdTk6QiWIYDl0L5E0NWNzH3s91braOQLp9ZHz_OXM5JbUftXbsHjsXtTdAsieggRtTrr4/w640-h230/Screenshot%202023-05-06%2017.25.37.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #303030; font-family: "PT Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; max-width: unset;">“Hop-pickers were known as hoppers. I was drawn to the huts where the hoppers lived, reflecting on the life of my Romany grandmother and generations of her family as they came to work on the hop fields during the century before the Second World War. My great-grandmother would have made the hut homely for her family, furnishing it with fabrics and utensils that were beautiful as well as functional. My work Hop-Kins uses some of the vintage fabrics I remember from my grandmother’s home. My portrait image appears as a reflection in the storyboards about the life of the hop-pickers.”</em><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDyRgM-zy9e-O1kD0qjyY65wXV7LJa8_vmlGa7QoVrlIm3FzZ-GSos4sxScmtniK3Pxf1Y1Xgg7RMu6q6Ym-S7J1wAFgnnHNrTlk7Qd-mdbHS3uMQCKqIXq-4ZyD_k80zh7Fgx2kclxxcZgeFI4GShxpNBcsYHpzQ_jly6tf7pXloQ2WC0T39iZ-eO/s898/Screenshot%202023-05-06%2017.37.11.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="629" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDyRgM-zy9e-O1kD0qjyY65wXV7LJa8_vmlGa7QoVrlIm3FzZ-GSos4sxScmtniK3Pxf1Y1Xgg7RMu6q6Ym-S7J1wAFgnnHNrTlk7Qd-mdbHS3uMQCKqIXq-4ZyD_k80zh7Fgx2kclxxcZgeFI4GShxpNBcsYHpzQ_jly6tf7pXloQ2WC0T39iZ-eO/w448-h640/Screenshot%202023-05-06%2017.37.11.png" width="448" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: #050505; text-align: start; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I got to see the Magdelena Abakanowicz exhibition at the Tate Awe during the week Awe inspiring sentinals of woven forms. Loved her drawings in ink, goache and charcoal equally. Go visit if you can on until 21st May</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: #050505; text-align: start; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/magdalena-abakanowicz?fbclid=IwAR1Ut4nOsJ4IhVP_Wh_rQns1UBdd0ysHZH3VAMnLfzPhZzVUteKG_2FdY6M" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; animation-name: none; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition-property: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: #050505; text-align: start; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p><br /><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #303030; font-family: "PT Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; max-width: unset;"><br /></em></p><p><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #303030; font-family: "PT Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; max-width: unset;"><br /></em></p>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-26183388292258666252023-04-25T13:06:00.000+01:002023-04-25T13:06:03.466+01:00Getting Started...in the Garden<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm34LwKB_okX1nmfjpvCK61b6rXMLjHJpM2RenWTDxt0RDL1D66UDFRLijDCk0VpIGKkYIgNQgfYu6Z8V0k_9353wCgMZt4yIeGIDWrKljGb7WlrvDDBobClU79EwsRIT6DGl2DY487R4l-uklQvQr-M3YAu99939iobkrD1xc4FrdXK5uTvPGYLpX/s750/Cas%20Holmes%20Garden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm34LwKB_okX1nmfjpvCK61b6rXMLjHJpM2RenWTDxt0RDL1D66UDFRLijDCk0VpIGKkYIgNQgfYu6Z8V0k_9353wCgMZt4yIeGIDWrKljGb7WlrvDDBobClU79EwsRIT6DGl2DY487R4l-uklQvQr-M3YAu99939iobkrD1xc4FrdXK5uTvPGYLpX/w640-h640/Cas%20Holmes%20Garden.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Cas Holmes, The Garden, 2022. 77cm x 70cm (30″ x 27½”). Painted and dyed vintage materials, collage, machine and hand stitch. Vintage cloth, dye, paint, thread, images transferred from a gardening magazine</span>.<p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I was pleased to be able to contribute to the article<a href="https://www.textileartist.org/get-started-new-piece-artwork/"> 'Getting Started with New Work'</a> written by Heidi Ingram for Textile Artist alongside artists <a href="https://nigelcheney.com/?v=79cba1185463">Nigel Cheney,</a><a href="https://www.emilyjogibbs.co.uk/"> Emily Jo Gibbs,</a><a href="https://sabinekaner.com/"> Sabine Kaner</a> and<a href="https://womanwithafish.com/"> Sue Stone.</a> In the article we share some of our artworks and find out the inspiration behind them. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>'She (Cas) had to find a new balance, as both artist and carer, and so she began to adapt her work to a smaller landscape – her home surroundings. However, her process remained the same: Cas still sketches and makes notes to record her travels, even within this smaller environment. In the quieter times, she stitches or spends an hour marking and layering her collections of cloth and paper.During this time, Cas has gained a new-found respect for the often-overlooked aspects of everyday life, like the edges of the footpath on her daily walks in the park, and the places where the home and garden meet the outside world</i>.' Heidi Imgram</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgvlhe3HpY0w3xiZ09zfelVghEXYza7caoIvf7xaXlGVlTPsuk2fAbWijFLxrDGn2w5UAwfJoUrsBGax8StMZbpbkM2GumBtzU6rcLoRKSEHMe3zVDv7AWEkBHlfLP_RABgVqcrUHJGga7BEhlasAEnf8SWyrlc3flWTDcr6DikPPTxoMSNue4nDzn/s1041/228335_custom_site_themes_id_pQPJSm0KT52BVSdB2JZ2_Cas_Holmes_Online_Fibre_Arts_Take_Two_ipad.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1041" data-original-width="833" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgvlhe3HpY0w3xiZ09zfelVghEXYza7caoIvf7xaXlGVlTPsuk2fAbWijFLxrDGn2w5UAwfJoUrsBGax8StMZbpbkM2GumBtzU6rcLoRKSEHMe3zVDv7AWEkBHlfLP_RABgVqcrUHJGga7BEhlasAEnf8SWyrlc3flWTDcr6DikPPTxoMSNue4nDzn/w512-h640/228335_custom_site_themes_id_pQPJSm0KT52BVSdB2JZ2_Cas_Holmes_Online_Fibre_Arts_Take_Two_ipad.png" width="512" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Thinking of the garden and referring to the everyday as a source of inspiration is part of the foundation for my course <a href="https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/courses/casholmes/" target="_blank">Making Connections – Mark, Layer & Stitch with Fibre Art Takes Two</a><a href="https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/courses/casholmes/" target="_blank">.</a> Enrolments open up soon at the end of April.<a href="https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/courses/casholmes/"> You can register your interest here </a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I have been able to work on a few projects this month including an online workshop 'Working with Words', part of the <a href="https://embroiderersguild.com/on-demand-past-talks-and-workshops/">Embroiderer's Guild workshop and talk</a> series.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjatTlMyLKSnl-wuot66beKx5b-h8UW0vazBODnejDMD2Pfz74h49H5f6fff1QZdhtBoEerU09sczGoa1tSV50c37J-BQWKLOtQLUNot3aKB5cV1N4Qg5Kfg0qmfCr-jwU3JDccwDbEg8bXSvcCKJwLDDufTo9rHmW9-NrUU2l1PrgHRgEdSiASepe3/s657/Screenshot%20(317).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="657" height="632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjatTlMyLKSnl-wuot66beKx5b-h8UW0vazBODnejDMD2Pfz74h49H5f6fff1QZdhtBoEerU09sczGoa1tSV50c37J-BQWKLOtQLUNot3aKB5cV1N4Qg5Kfg0qmfCr-jwU3JDccwDbEg8bXSvcCKJwLDDufTo9rHmW9-NrUU2l1PrgHRgEdSiASepe3/w640-h632/Screenshot%20(317).png" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And equally delighted to be able to set up some be-spoke workshops with existing project partners and colleagues including a few planned locally in-place as well as virtually.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Lb1fTPVd8pD777sC1Ig5IilrbtW-VmYlnbAPTmKS7v7dMD5iU45ENBVThCP-q1VbtWhL0YIcw6dTKPjbfeArxG0GtubZrcLB1Mvml5RozNRWC9m5mfLKFQX0pHJAwpIzpfKgPq48d2mca36o50DNmXMUhaJEUROTjJI9DfXV4ovkee4jiajO9np6/s1080/342982965_966304831051374_1080860375649764338_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Lb1fTPVd8pD777sC1Ig5IilrbtW-VmYlnbAPTmKS7v7dMD5iU45ENBVThCP-q1VbtWhL0YIcw6dTKPjbfeArxG0GtubZrcLB1Mvml5RozNRWC9m5mfLKFQX0pHJAwpIzpfKgPq48d2mca36o50DNmXMUhaJEUROTjJI9DfXV4ovkee4jiajO9np6/w640-h640/342982965_966304831051374_1080860375649764338_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1dQgmVbpEHnFveOIqq2G2kINbPOLk0ErsOwfCsav8owCuIRV1pOf_zB8GoF6vZU9b2Ihc6kNkzEttJQ4T8zivQ-Tn7bnenjiHN1cP1Y25rADbEOZNRq2HOeBF4eyzg6aHV9oipuZvrIHXHDUdzUxcsitYjZjoI9FOdE20LbqonuvhaJEd8ZkL1UYo/s1080/342910557_1190300861537715_6676605651024124448_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1dQgmVbpEHnFveOIqq2G2kINbPOLk0ErsOwfCsav8owCuIRV1pOf_zB8GoF6vZU9b2Ihc6kNkzEttJQ4T8zivQ-Tn7bnenjiHN1cP1Y25rADbEOZNRq2HOeBF4eyzg6aHV9oipuZvrIHXHDUdzUxcsitYjZjoI9FOdE20LbqonuvhaJEd8ZkL1UYo/w640-h640/342910557_1190300861537715_6676605651024124448_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Finally but not least. It was wonderful to be able to get to the 'Meet the Artist' at the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/fibreandform12/">Fibre and Form exhibtion</a> at <a href="https://www.nucleusarts.com/nucleus-arts-main-centre">Nucleus Arts Centre</a>. Thankyou to my fellow artists for their support. The piece below is called 'Absence'</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4qFi9g7JPaVv8LBp5P-FlTTTnFaKaRI_j8jO8EdvOloBDrZikrL926fj780wlLjcTOU5rhn0MKGn8cBoH9mtfRp6nCX3QMX5_r9Tk92_kWIDgFOcUmKDy9-4qIn0qX3MpU2UnbHUO28FWCz6p4b_3jglwTx2Aq3WymRixfj8mvjyDPcJPAoj5xx89/s4106/IMG_2509.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2859" data-original-width="4106" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4qFi9g7JPaVv8LBp5P-FlTTTnFaKaRI_j8jO8EdvOloBDrZikrL926fj780wlLjcTOU5rhn0MKGn8cBoH9mtfRp6nCX3QMX5_r9Tk92_kWIDgFOcUmKDy9-4qIn0qX3MpU2UnbHUO28FWCz6p4b_3jglwTx2Aq3WymRixfj8mvjyDPcJPAoj5xx89/w640-h446/IMG_2509.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3aV0og5REGwXwB4VC9e6rktqQ4dtL80JoOb66HUkbFqkokmauo858gwr2XyFQwrLSlLMLIDd3UH64JzcLbC_Bw0Olu6Sz7fKiv46dV5KVvSqK2zmBGRyu_ILhV4JwlpFn1JRMeATJah5Jo0VzNCu6dwlDggVL4IjTBgOBHnyoG7z5NGA0TA7m_DEY/s4527/IMG_2520.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2242" data-original-width="4527" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3aV0og5REGwXwB4VC9e6rktqQ4dtL80JoOb66HUkbFqkokmauo858gwr2XyFQwrLSlLMLIDd3UH64JzcLbC_Bw0Olu6Sz7fKiv46dV5KVvSqK2zmBGRyu_ILhV4JwlpFn1JRMeATJah5Jo0VzNCu6dwlDggVL4IjTBgOBHnyoG7z5NGA0TA7m_DEY/w640-h316/IMG_2520.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-18459532822318759402023-03-26T16:19:00.120+01:002023-04-10T12:04:24.871+01:00Equinox/Equlibrium <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhk7QI5weP7EMKYbLTe-RhCM86wbqMs8YAz_A1B8ZAn8mUhT4VpORhISnT14EI4M3WSeJYOTio174WYSHMEq2iUrR-8aaU4fm6UXNVNprV1iiKcmxI2xq537Wvj7iLZIJFWOmM8_g1R7bZjEktjWcqK7I3t6D84oANEnC8Ow51-TcdXCuyzdSnwgQe/s1361/IMG_2381.JPG" style="background-color: #bf9000; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1361" data-original-width="1342" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhk7QI5weP7EMKYbLTe-RhCM86wbqMs8YAz_A1B8ZAn8mUhT4VpORhISnT14EI4M3WSeJYOTio174WYSHMEq2iUrR-8aaU4fm6UXNVNprV1iiKcmxI2xq537Wvj7iLZIJFWOmM8_g1R7bZjEktjWcqK7I3t6D84oANEnC8Ow51-TcdXCuyzdSnwgQe/w396-h400/IMG_2381.JPG" title="Equinox" width="396" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a;">The word<a href="https://www.dictionary.com/e/fall-equinox-solstice/"> </a></span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.dictionary.com/e/fall-equinox-solstice/">equinox</a></em><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a;"> comes from the Latin </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">aequinoctium</em><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a;">, meaning “the time of equal days and nights,” from </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">equi-</em><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a;">, meaning “equal,” and </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">nocti-</em><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a;">, meaning “night.”<br /></span><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/equilibrium#:~:text=%3A%20a%20state%20of%20balance%20between,in%20both%20directions%20are%20equal)">Equilibrium</a><span> : a state of balance between opposing forces or actions that is either static (as in a body acted on by forces whose resultant is zero) or dynamic (as in a reversible chemical reaction when the rates of reaction in both directions are equal</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span><span><b>Care-Clean-Create<br /></b></span><span>Since my partner's Derek's Stroke 18 months ago my life as an artist-traveller has become that of an artist-carer. As such, in addition to care, all of the household tasks inside and outside, largely fall onto me and I now fold my work around the chores that take up a lot of my day. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>I was fortunate. Throughout our lives, we shared the daily tasks, in truth, in the last few years, and during the pandemic, Derek did more than me. I now find I am needing to find the balance between the domestic tasks of caring, cooking and cleaning with my work as an artist. I do what I do because it needs to be done and I care, yet at times, I just want to escape from the uninvited repetition that this new role of 'care-clean-cook' has imposed on my creative life; where working away from home, and 'being out in the world', has become severely constricted.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>I have needed to accept a new way of 'being' where the 'domestic' has seeped, (or at times flooded) into my life. I have a few 'in place' workshops booked in the next few months, and am working on exhibition and commission projects. This has been a positive step for me. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>As we mark the forwarding of the clock for British Summer TIme, when day meets night in equal part. I seek to fulfil my role as Artist-Carer in equal measure.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>Walking outside in my garden, to<a href="https://www.visitmaidstone.com/things-to-do/mote-park-p12581"> Mote Park </a>or the local footpaths close to home i have become aware of the winter dried stems and grasses gradually becoming brightened by early Spring flowers.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvgIQqPvnD3pDC9izkpXlBcL9Qf_ko5WaTv761NFM8l4dBGX0TW6afiFyFdWhjHdjZ-yx716NTonaVUeEqDM612N3GhZ66Pvt9W--j3POF5iEyOM9Y4B7paDibT-0s5qWhNn07uf0mwqVHWzhXrRNG8QteJJpgKxJ9uK5gajipls0LBqAp0nGnzB9c/s4053/IMG_20230302_190438.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2759" data-original-width="4053" height="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvgIQqPvnD3pDC9izkpXlBcL9Qf_ko5WaTv761NFM8l4dBGX0TW6afiFyFdWhjHdjZ-yx716NTonaVUeEqDM612N3GhZ66Pvt9W--j3POF5iEyOM9Y4B7paDibT-0s5qWhNn07uf0mwqVHWzhXrRNG8QteJJpgKxJ9uK5gajipls0LBqAp0nGnzB9c/w640-h435/IMG_20230302_190438.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtJE1pO7Rnl0r3k3njF_CGC_UwFw3nofDLaOsv6svKDIO555xGOabRpZPfoOs6vfgO2LL2CGKK7XWr56KXH4Op2SYG84MlGAVWNFQCZPqaUmfvNNUmv3TwEXLFOmdogg4sZDp6wINMPy-1UWXniPsAdjtpdt7qbuxRSn0zbT3nRlwyqJgpQhz47aVy/s4087/IMG_20230302_190501.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2939" data-original-width="4087" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtJE1pO7Rnl0r3k3njF_CGC_UwFw3nofDLaOsv6svKDIO555xGOabRpZPfoOs6vfgO2LL2CGKK7XWr56KXH4Op2SYG84MlGAVWNFQCZPqaUmfvNNUmv3TwEXLFOmdogg4sZDp6wINMPy-1UWXniPsAdjtpdt7qbuxRSn0zbT3nRlwyqJgpQhz47aVy/w640-h460/IMG_20230302_190501.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivnYYifigjQmWYV-AB0JkpGaNC1YjAf7uRZKdrBhXrMm3xhdW_FTBmnv5abQbSSdZWsicRI9vG9LbyGzh0VsDhgV7vdZAOqKw7mYDdsO-c7XxjfmzCFuygiDFL9YbEBpfm6hNtPU5QbIWThRIhFVYwl2WUgUoRVWp6ZBPnpBKrPfCuYjYjXce1F7In/s3106/IMG_20230302_122045.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2872" data-original-width="3106" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivnYYifigjQmWYV-AB0JkpGaNC1YjAf7uRZKdrBhXrMm3xhdW_FTBmnv5abQbSSdZWsicRI9vG9LbyGzh0VsDhgV7vdZAOqKw7mYDdsO-c7XxjfmzCFuygiDFL9YbEBpfm6hNtPU5QbIWThRIhFVYwl2WUgUoRVWp6ZBPnpBKrPfCuYjYjXce1F7In/w400-h370/IMG_20230302_122045.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSGA7yJWGJ7U7pAAP2k_UeYPU4-F4_FSsBu9lMw9lnBke5ojanpvW_bwjh9CwdJPpcgku9ogFw6KIZd0T8wNb5es4Ty7DGQk5pKJKHZRqodTK_BEQuOrs5myC8Dk6J1KIvV9vMm13R9UZxCfA971_YpzmPvUNfs0KM1VoMIP4UsMSMSPeKaMRFioFb/s4160/IMG_20230302_122122.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSGA7yJWGJ7U7pAAP2k_UeYPU4-F4_FSsBu9lMw9lnBke5ojanpvW_bwjh9CwdJPpcgku9ogFw6KIZd0T8wNb5es4Ty7DGQk5pKJKHZRqodTK_BEQuOrs5myC8Dk6J1KIvV9vMm13R9UZxCfA971_YpzmPvUNfs0KM1VoMIP4UsMSMSPeKaMRFioFb/w480-h640/IMG_20230302_122122.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg90WBVZ-s00SB5qKbUlwDGmuKVsDCLZDnAoWiKcuwbBAuE0J1q5u023Irv__bU24HJggxVlgVQ0dgfLsaCiQKmjVYTQZod6_T_9rOaIButGUsc9sBfCpSvEK-Cmxz5lR9Jc7LLFQj8HDtfBDBYJbx2OCrLMbHy2PWebfQ3Pk-IjYfsqOTO2_dUrm4A/s2268/IMG_20230302_122131.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="2199" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg90WBVZ-s00SB5qKbUlwDGmuKVsDCLZDnAoWiKcuwbBAuE0J1q5u023Irv__bU24HJggxVlgVQ0dgfLsaCiQKmjVYTQZod6_T_9rOaIButGUsc9sBfCpSvEK-Cmxz5lR9Jc7LLFQj8HDtfBDBYJbx2OCrLMbHy2PWebfQ3Pk-IjYfsqOTO2_dUrm4A/w388-h400/IMG_20230302_122131.jpg" width="388" /></a></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>I am currently stitching onto fragmented cloth, </span><span>(maybe a metaphor for my partner's fragmented brain) and the changes to our lives. The patterns and forms of the veins and nerves of his brain and body scans, eerily echo the tree branches and flora forms we see in the park and our garden through our windows. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGAh4IRg1mUPnGPnAbczGIq--hPnRwvbcCULyiDKIo7-0Bvwdwb_5Gj3v_LNHLxOM63NpsCEuIrLFdvFIbhbh1gWUIjVTpn9VzWhsuNMzHIRGof35ob1vy1JxEmAhDkxiZL34OCTz86CL5LnNeS8KFuOPMaPaNL35oVIEf3CJMW4GXud1q5gv9IMJs/s5184/Glimmer%203%20Detail%20Cas%20Holmes%20(35).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGAh4IRg1mUPnGPnAbczGIq--hPnRwvbcCULyiDKIo7-0Bvwdwb_5Gj3v_LNHLxOM63NpsCEuIrLFdvFIbhbh1gWUIjVTpn9VzWhsuNMzHIRGof35ob1vy1JxEmAhDkxiZL34OCTz86CL5LnNeS8KFuOPMaPaNL35oVIEf3CJMW4GXud1q5gv9IMJs/w640-h426/Glimmer%203%20Detail%20Cas%20Holmes%20(35).JPG" width="640" /><br /></a></span></p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Workshops and Events</b></span></span></h1><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.nucleusarts.com/halpern-nicebitofstuff"><b>”Nice Bit of Stuff”, Fibre and Form</b></a> from 13th-22 April at the Halpern Gallery. Chatham/ Meet the artists on Saturday 22nd April 12.00-2.00pm</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigEv7dghL8aDQTfvgr5fwz_ssK1yph9E6ZOEMaz2iAuPIXM_XlS32D3OJM7PaDpMRHWrM0BYMZtkj_Hqgo_fCxcUw2rDyTHwrmoKI7PmoDkxjyQxZnKbUXekDzkK_O0HeD8jQ43pelMXscuR5w2c1fpPiEYKb5GoKCwSXq_oG_klIgbou6wfqW50VM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="750" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigEv7dghL8aDQTfvgr5fwz_ssK1yph9E6ZOEMaz2iAuPIXM_XlS32D3OJM7PaDpMRHWrM0BYMZtkj_Hqgo_fCxcUw2rDyTHwrmoKI7PmoDkxjyQxZnKbUXekDzkK_O0HeD8jQ43pelMXscuR5w2c1fpPiEYKb5GoKCwSXq_oG_klIgbou6wfqW50VM=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">One woman’s vanity case full of her unfinished patchwork pieces becomes the inspiration for 12 artists using textiles to create exciting new work</span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Working with Words</b>. </span><a href="https://embroiderersguild.com/" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #bf8b38; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;">Embroiderer’s Guild Workshop</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> Tue, 18 April 2023, 19:00 – 20:30 BST. </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eg-workshop-working-with-words-with-cas-holmes-tickets-516793522337" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #bf8b38; font-family: arial; font-size: large; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Book via Evenbrite here.</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Workshops coming up in April and including a project an in place workshop in September at West Dean College can also be found on my </span><a href="https://casholmes.wordpress.com/workshops/" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #bf8b38; text-decoration-line: none;">workshops page</a><span style="background-color: white;"> on my blog.</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='475' height='394' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyzZjKOhdeyrpTRm0AMAvWvkIHCOBpPCfOSL-Dw091rhs8PI9nP5fktxvclePhe8SK3ariMZmi05JoPZcXliQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-77462308717712990292023-02-28T18:07:00.003+00:002023-02-28T18:41:44.695+00:00”Nice Bit of Stuff” Fibre and Form<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">”Nice Bit of Stuff” , <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FibreAndForm">Fibre and Form</a><span> from 13th-26th April at the </span><a href="https://www.nucleusarts.com/halpern-chatham">Halpern Gallery</a><span>. Chatham</span></span></h2><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">One woman’s vanity case full of her unfinished patchwork pieces becomes the inspiration for 12 artists using textiles to create exciting new work. I will also be running a short workshop as part of<a href="https://www.nucleusarts.com/"> Nucleus Arts</a> jumpstART programme on Wednesday 19 April. Further details <a href="https://www.nucleusarts.com/jumpstart-booking/p/190423">here.</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsUplr79Svh22MuInYjOPuqOegYIaO0y6Q2uUgOKLf0BKqIx6VKc3dxjyU9r9ptIG7Y2DnexSz8TCESb4p1HPVxvJfg3nmwdiVrRi6fa8AABLLY7oLNBidAVmW_m2tgK1nnFczwTt75XvrztRaGCx3lcrtjFYV_y-BN-EpLnlIol1d4wm69Sdpxc0u/s319/331669214_1122604185805040_8504693618165503708_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="317" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsUplr79Svh22MuInYjOPuqOegYIaO0y6Q2uUgOKLf0BKqIx6VKc3dxjyU9r9ptIG7Y2DnexSz8TCESb4p1HPVxvJfg3nmwdiVrRi6fa8AABLLY7oLNBidAVmW_m2tgK1nnFczwTt75XvrztRaGCx3lcrtjFYV_y-BN-EpLnlIol1d4wm69Sdpxc0u/w398-h400/331669214_1122604185805040_8504693618165503708_n.jpg" width="398" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I have been working on new pieces as part of the my contribution to the exhibit. Detail below of work in process, 'Absence,' part of a new series of works 'Making Connections'. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZjGIfH9AjSuO4UZ7DUhztCTq5pIlrNKNtoLm06ku4LPhIV9L25VUC2dF7nGcp8PB3lJBgZIdMwgGm9ZqDywjQqx5wpHXVsjKiFEVFgHU30gc7Q3RRyrLvSgPUeAzcvJyZJzikYivV_N1FZRfSGWGtMZVNBrpgen2nteZPtwsZl0HPPC1gW6mQ9Dvb/s3706/CH%20Making%20Connections%20Absence%20(6).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2683" data-original-width="3706" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZjGIfH9AjSuO4UZ7DUhztCTq5pIlrNKNtoLm06ku4LPhIV9L25VUC2dF7nGcp8PB3lJBgZIdMwgGm9ZqDywjQqx5wpHXVsjKiFEVFgHU30gc7Q3RRyrLvSgPUeAzcvJyZJzikYivV_N1FZRfSGWGtMZVNBrpgen2nteZPtwsZl0HPPC1gW6mQ9Dvb/w640-h464/CH%20Making%20Connections%20Absence%20(6).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Finding time to get back into the studio to do some work in the last few months and stitching has been so valuable to my won well-being. Often I sit quietly in the evening whilst listening to the radio. at the same time.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeJMzM5rhZ_ZFXZWJInCEolvIvcBJHEX_3OnfSJSNWaWtuZWs2HxkYLjFeSihQXcq4cT4RPrrf3-a587qW19gyJBYKVonwg7RWvudb5fMFuUxZnhFLY4jn1rx3QJsQkZWAxeOzKu1W8kLQ5ZBQ-s6v6hxKMUXQxpqpCoN2SUPxL7SS3xFZQUOgHbpf/s1080/331737015_576631444400518_384028078390632726_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeJMzM5rhZ_ZFXZWJInCEolvIvcBJHEX_3OnfSJSNWaWtuZWs2HxkYLjFeSihQXcq4cT4RPrrf3-a587qW19gyJBYKVonwg7RWvudb5fMFuUxZnhFLY4jn1rx3QJsQkZWAxeOzKu1W8kLQ5ZBQ-s6v6hxKMUXQxpqpCoN2SUPxL7SS3xFZQUOgHbpf/w640-h640/331737015_576631444400518_384028078390632726_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">So love this 'posed' studio shot by artist and photographer <a href="https://www.greshoff.co.uk/index">Robert Greshoff.</a></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuVorj8LHqeZ2J9O4xyA9eFMQWJcydjwvklYErhzOxIkopx_TvEZd8cZfmxbYZIO4YWNfnBeL1mk_J9NLNZVCBf9mvTLUDRsqaGcHZXJ1EEDBiK7U1ffcnTaXlz5R6HaANNfszRA6_SFmNxa1G7zI-LYFBrfkXKxUHiPLZCh0NxC6UC1lPWPXxxZgJ/s3840/222886-09-001%C2%A9RobertGreshoff.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3840" data-original-width="3840" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuVorj8LHqeZ2J9O4xyA9eFMQWJcydjwvklYErhzOxIkopx_TvEZd8cZfmxbYZIO4YWNfnBeL1mk_J9NLNZVCBf9mvTLUDRsqaGcHZXJ1EEDBiK7U1ffcnTaXlz5R6HaANNfszRA6_SFmNxa1G7zI-LYFBrfkXKxUHiPLZCh0NxC6UC1lPWPXxxZgJ/w640-h640/222886-09-001%C2%A9RobertGreshoff.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">My 'second' studio space (a bench under a window indoors) doubles up as a shared sewing machine and on-line teaching space. Below is the set up for my recent <a href="https://www.westdean.org.uk/study/short-courses/courses/scw13052-live-online-course-create-a-stitch-sketchbook-map?fbclid=IwAR1ItLi-xAC5T4vuztposMEliy4A3nQ3KEwze3HMROwMH-A34GfvU6g-dak">Stitch-Sketch-Book-Map</a> workshop with<a href="https://www.westdean.org.uk/"> West Dean College</a> (The PC and second camera is just off screen) This has proved popular with a second course scheduled for May.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">an in place workshop at West Dean in September. A</span><span style="font-family: arial;">n 'in-place' workshop at West Dean is scheduled for September. </span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVrsFAebMdNltZT3qvc4rvJ7uJEu12ZRBFuImbi2A41uJV4VpbNZK7D4ka_oXf9nVSTTKUZDHEBDWovKcRejRw6tKUr8V5KD3yML2po61bWY9q7e6clK8LIh74HQfdOLmt2iR9qIVORfbv3OvoUtvMItvLoDgsl5tSuTGJIRx1KDHODlitR8ICLKRR/s4485/Cas%20Holmes%20Stitch%20Sketch%20Book%20Map%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4485" data-original-width="3414" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVrsFAebMdNltZT3qvc4rvJ7uJEu12ZRBFuImbi2A41uJV4VpbNZK7D4ka_oXf9nVSTTKUZDHEBDWovKcRejRw6tKUr8V5KD3yML2po61bWY9q7e6clK8LIh74HQfdOLmt2iR9qIVORfbv3OvoUtvMItvLoDgsl5tSuTGJIRx1KDHODlitR8ICLKRR/w488-h640/Cas%20Holmes%20Stitch%20Sketch%20Book%20Map%20(2).JPG" width="488" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I have a few teaching events coming up in the next few months including private bespoke projects with art groups and schools.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUMR9JqkdSpjQhbLyezr8OkbKoZtIWRwcIbIlOmAKLDoay9y5owU8oxHkswmDvYYHeaw0lUad6LQb14G-hCrm8Rt2yy9yaTOYMY0zONInWXvlRARz8E9gzhrYDDg_82RjUQva8kyAQixqZBRjviWZ66AZErR6QfeBREWcT03lxtjiC9dCL7pKH6RSG/s1024/screenshot-2023-01-23-13.46.32.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="1024" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUMR9JqkdSpjQhbLyezr8OkbKoZtIWRwcIbIlOmAKLDoay9y5owU8oxHkswmDvYYHeaw0lUad6LQb14G-hCrm8Rt2yy9yaTOYMY0zONInWXvlRARz8E9gzhrYDDg_82RjUQva8kyAQixqZBRjviWZ66AZErR6QfeBREWcT03lxtjiC9dCL7pKH6RSG/w640-h314/screenshot-2023-01-23-13.46.32.webp" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Working with Words. <a href="https://embroiderersguild.com/">Embroiderer’s Guild Workshop</a> Tue, 18 April 2023, 19:00 – 20:30 BST. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eg-workshop-working-with-words-with-cas-holmes-tickets-516793522337">Book via Evenbrite here.</a> Workshops coming up in April and later in the year can also be found on my <a href="https://casholmes.wordpress.com/workshops/">workshops page</a> on my blog.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-63825940846933466712023-02-18T20:47:00.019+00:002023-02-27T11:24:26.096+00:00UCA-A Retrospective (Regret and Loss)<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424;">UCA - A Retrospective: Creativity past, present and future, honours the outstanding work of students, graduates, alumni and staff, of the University of Creative Arts in Rochester. The college is renowned for its cutting edge style and this exhibition marks 130 years of creativity in this respected institution which will close its doors for the final time in 2023. That this follows the closure of the former Maidstone College nearly 10 years is a sad loss to those who wish to study in the creative industries and no doubt has been impacted by the funding<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jul/20/funding-cuts-to-go-ahead-for-university-arts-courses-in-england-despite-opposition"> cuts throughout the arts sector</a> which marks a decline in the support of the nation's 'cultural health' (see report Guardian, Sally Weale July 2021).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrOQIWGPp-BVVbnfFRQ1wCB3gfkGJScGJ19SdwpI06O3EAbeZdBHA9QgctQJExVNnP0Q7_uhSAgzr3dF37RBJVS2c2hNcm50TaafiANuzSduPb1AspL5Mab_9PBUDVgw5m55K9MrTsMu-x1Yvgj_WT2sjQQarq4fNBt6pE7w5IceHSGTSy7-AGB3B3/s4160/IMG_20230217_183722.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2678" data-original-width="4160" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrOQIWGPp-BVVbnfFRQ1wCB3gfkGJScGJ19SdwpI06O3EAbeZdBHA9QgctQJExVNnP0Q7_uhSAgzr3dF37RBJVS2c2hNcm50TaafiANuzSduPb1AspL5Mab_9PBUDVgw5m55K9MrTsMu-x1Yvgj_WT2sjQQarq4fNBt6pE7w5IceHSGTSy7-AGB3B3/w640-h412/IMG_20230217_183722.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424;">The exhibition takes place </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.medway.gov.uk/info/200640/rochester_art_gallery/1660/rochester_art_gallery_current_exhibitions_and_workshops">Rochester Art Gallery and UCA’s Zandra Rhodes Gallery</a> It also includes a small exhibition at the nearby Medway Adult Education Centre.</span></span><div><span style="color: #242424; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #242424; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I spent a happy afternoon visiting the exhibition:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #242424; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #242424; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Bdf98MRXaS5pSAZEDpMw8yg7J0uYX6MHRSn6xS0S7BhBR5hEIvg-oAFH1F3UUb9rlg3S4dXkYSb_OEhqiy3cmPj8IjFANK7Rnvg66SwnCPwSYcuG_1-QZbi4pYqJnruiE1mcZC4odj8NsklvD5xC77XA4REN-3HiMV2_mMff81iBsLLMJoC0a4Yl/s3836/IMG_20230217_144516.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQW-GOr_sGkVWvXje9Q0q6cJryY9vcgm0lpzAOCIbB7WbvKM_Kg9twL6CCQeZK0gfRjuTVcu3Ebn0J2juD0YvpXxh-pBJh5bwZt8bW3Strgy2osfKm4b3yX-TbBamWETXrT3hLp4U-dBsNaqBnP-BVW7pNHwYSckSFV3btvzOBIcsctscgb6Fm485D/s4160/Zandra%20Rhodes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQW-GOr_sGkVWvXje9Q0q6cJryY9vcgm0lpzAOCIbB7WbvKM_Kg9twL6CCQeZK0gfRjuTVcu3Ebn0J2juD0YvpXxh-pBJh5bwZt8bW3Strgy2osfKm4b3yX-TbBamWETXrT3hLp4U-dBsNaqBnP-BVW7pNHwYSckSFV3btvzOBIcsctscgb6Fm485D/w400-h300/Zandra%20Rhodes.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>So enjoyed a sneak peak in <a href="https://zandrarhodes.com/">Dame Zandra Rhodes</a> sketchbooks above and photographer<a href="https://www.rikard.co.uk/"> Rikard Osterlund's</a> powerful testimony to his relationship with his artist wife Zara's painful illness. (This felt so personal I felt it was not mine to share here..so go visit)</span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXxhRndUrYNGBZQBlUmB9WJjYKV0pjTpYTpDhNWU-HxyczYQcAVMqW2jHU8vFyP2JyTwo4-l1kZDDGguZZIG8NcxLaeipomM5MAtPWZQ-BeDJ6q4M8owsr-LCwLTnH46dyhgEHM1VDS4KTloqyLHWPQRJjrfCFbQWg6MJ0GbTYVOnbPKsKeI6B_ZEX/s4160/Rikard%20Osterlund2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXxhRndUrYNGBZQBlUmB9WJjYKV0pjTpYTpDhNWU-HxyczYQcAVMqW2jHU8vFyP2JyTwo4-l1kZDDGguZZIG8NcxLaeipomM5MAtPWZQ-BeDJ6q4M8owsr-LCwLTnH46dyhgEHM1VDS4KTloqyLHWPQRJjrfCFbQWg6MJ0GbTYVOnbPKsKeI6B_ZEX/w300-h400/Rikard%20Osterlund2.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #242424; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr9efw-eAHBK5x6L3jgF0nBZ6k8HEzTmWnbC7099nULIiAOqofQcQ43VoaAo2qEbflGbyo51t67HbmV5wjdndEqoU34B4UyLrCkjBuSb3Gp0JwOxX6amH3jOw1EJg6TacweYA5ENb3lt170rPYyn3QdQwYlwqOvOnci2EbYfldVBM-Fsfg8un7XE_D/w480-h640/IMG_20230217_144927.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.uca.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/jenny-hughes/">Jenny Hughes </a>celebrates travel and cultural diversity in her digital print scarves.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizHnKKM3Ytj3JxiXX9huLlb2R5obQwNIsBtjTVjjukgfUc_RAdlQRrUIsbbhsi5cTp_bS5oLa4ttN6o6sGcof6zry0k8owDbOu7gfEozIM8RDgrCnxXDNcYZ-w-9tOdHJPxh-wFtfmcR8FutRkbmkDDVTw0hfxqU5k3iM4zDeAIN47HOL0LBGP8hNS/s4160/Jenny%20Hughes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.uca.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/shelly-goldsmith/">Shelly Goldsmith,</a> Dresses for Giants</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJlppBw9bRwi1JAzuLuaejKm_inS2P-fNHvlQLKRdop-lHd4Lh9rwSIYXud6OrplRypkhfhpQ_CzvaOv4eK8Jh-SVyxEFzcMCcSd2N8MaDMWWOTpAYGbrHzBaLS5bJgB3GXneTo9mpHmYd74bU_u6tXDt_zCVdC293jpYRKG-7EgGeUAvnsTqjq1ej/s4160/Shelly%20Godsmith%203.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJlppBw9bRwi1JAzuLuaejKm_inS2P-fNHvlQLKRdop-lHd4Lh9rwSIYXud6OrplRypkhfhpQ_CzvaOv4eK8Jh-SVyxEFzcMCcSd2N8MaDMWWOTpAYGbrHzBaLS5bJgB3GXneTo9mpHmYd74bU_u6tXDt_zCVdC293jpYRKG-7EgGeUAvnsTqjq1ej/w480-h640/Shelly%20Godsmith%203.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjbzXdechAfSdKoEoB5JjgnIHnlK1WulY6xWTFXb8AR_Xm4cyhdsy9LJSoUwHucABnhCRF7J4o6BduG9ogQiLT2JnwmFe9nZh2A5xDkOtLdBGL1iwT08umX7wR2JUZA53cpRUVD-lTsxG4pF6_9GLd2xEpe5JGsKXLhnl3YOgbQzLiezblZpyxC5Ba/s3043/Shelly%20Goldsmith2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">And of course, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Childish">Billy Childish,</a> co-founder of the Stuckism Movement.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz0S3r4gzaBydOBmbNeMu0mR6heKfdfz13rgyqcN0tqb3OvqkSeP4KIT0n26QM8RCh5v71hwxhxsHpQoMSnEn2_xS7KP1eSj4diU4vcz7B3DyqmWPD-2VBXqYCuVQQMNLvMVabjamcxp3kiL7cyTquDrJyEoo7c90vZD-yK5zvfM2GjN7twG8qadJa/s2972/IMG_20230217_183650.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2972" data-original-width="2138" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz0S3r4gzaBydOBmbNeMu0mR6heKfdfz13rgyqcN0tqb3OvqkSeP4KIT0n26QM8RCh5v71hwxhxsHpQoMSnEn2_xS7KP1eSj4diU4vcz7B3DyqmWPD-2VBXqYCuVQQMNLvMVabjamcxp3kiL7cyTquDrJyEoo7c90vZD-yK5zvfM2GjN7twG8qadJa/w288-h400/IMG_20230217_183650.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic; text-align: left;">We are, and always will be, proud of all our students, alumni and staff who have cultivated their creativity at Rochester. That’s what this show will celebrate because it is people who make a university and our community will always be part of UCA – no matter where our buildings are based.”</span></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #242424; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; max-width: 40em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Neil Bottle, Programme Director of Fashion Textiles, UCA, 2022</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #242424; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; max-width: 40em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">As a student of the former Maidstone College of Art, I am proud of my achievements and grateful to have thrived on the start I was given in my three years of study. I celebrate the legacy that this fine institution leaves and equally mourn that similar opportunities may be denied to so many who will not now be able to develop their full potential as a result of such devastating cuts in learning.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #242424; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; max-width: 40em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Such a loss is to be regretted.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #242424; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; max-width: 40em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; max-width: 40em;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dates:</span></span></p><ul style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #242424; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; list-style: none; margin: 1.125rem 0px 1.125rem 4.5rem; max-width: 40em; padding: 0px;"><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.25rem 0px; max-width: 40em;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rochester Art Gallery - 27 January 2023 to 15 April 2023 (Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm - wheelchair accessible)</span></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.25rem 0px; max-width: 40em;"><span style="font-size: large;">Zandra Rhodes Gallery - 27 January 2023 to 14 March 2023 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm)</span></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.25rem 0px; max-width: 40em;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rochester Adult Education Centre - 6 March to 27 April 2023 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm).</span></li></ul><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #242424; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; max-width: 40em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-88437020674756495222022-12-28T16:34:00.001+00:002022-12-29T11:01:49.785+00:00 Looking Back, Looking Forward<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This year, more than any, has been one of challenges, resilience friendship, community, and of course, creativity. That I have been able to continue with my practice alongside many other new roles (carer, gardener, handy-person, appointments manager) has only been possible with the continued support from friends, colleagues and health professionals. Through Derek's resilience and hard work on his physio we began to get back up on our feet, so to speak,. Sadly he had a fall and broke his hip in the Autumn and 12 weeks on is up and about more. After a year of reflection we recognise just what the term 'Stroke Survivor' means and how it impacts on both our lives, and what we have been able to learn and adjust to a new way of 'being'. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg23MLhs1AKsn2rdy_jBfdqs91ZioHCL3E55OqdmYLGdXjEdTxuv99wbUOHOtJYMDebpAS9VeafuagfZjXtmM-KLm80JcIcgNOD2Xf8Bg5CTRULUtH-lNjvJB8-UPWDFHzuUWunqQ-bPvp3K1Ho8qkKCFzzCZsNOvmbbhGBrhrjoXVxEolEcJMQutdZ/s4160/IMG_20220914_183118.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg23MLhs1AKsn2rdy_jBfdqs91ZioHCL3E55OqdmYLGdXjEdTxuv99wbUOHOtJYMDebpAS9VeafuagfZjXtmM-KLm80JcIcgNOD2Xf8Bg5CTRULUtH-lNjvJB8-UPWDFHzuUWunqQ-bPvp3K1Ho8qkKCFzzCZsNOvmbbhGBrhrjoXVxEolEcJMQutdZ/w640-h480/IMG_20220914_183118.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwhlFLioGuKgJ92Vj1LdxawllKj_aEdyewaNGA21YcaKeuzjsZrKIy5VlQhEno3HwLJpck9DIBaYY-ULYDgHIxYYMm3VyTWXXsEvModBjkwq9OSMB5Pjf7OmQTsMS7QPLvbbfAKKLlOzqMs80Ev66Zq9GPYZ-7B_FawXNpJ1DBmdqJvPuXIRKzrykB/s4160/IMG_20220914_191556.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2717" data-original-width="4160" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwhlFLioGuKgJ92Vj1LdxawllKj_aEdyewaNGA21YcaKeuzjsZrKIy5VlQhEno3HwLJpck9DIBaYY-ULYDgHIxYYMm3VyTWXXsEvModBjkwq9OSMB5Pjf7OmQTsMS7QPLvbbfAKKLlOzqMs80Ev66Zq9GPYZ-7B_FawXNpJ1DBmdqJvPuXIRKzrykB/w640-h418/IMG_20220914_191556.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Above are </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Aerogramme</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">letters Derek sent to me in the early days of our relationship when I was studying in Japan. He sent 80-90 'bluies' while I was for 3 months in the Autumn on a </span><a href="https://www.churchillfellowship.org/" style="font-family: arial;">Churchill Fellowship</a><span style="font-family: arial;">. In one he reports that our friend had made a cake for us for Christmas, Elkie, one of the dogs that lived with us at the time, had got into the cupboard and ate the entire thing!!! It is this dry take on the world and his ability to focus on the things that matter and not taking ourselves too seriously, which has remained a constant. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Flexibility has been the key to my exhibiting and teaching, where I have been able to bring many of the newly developed skills discovered during the pandemic into play. These are selected highlights</span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>Exhibitions</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This time last year marked the beginning of a major tour of my exhibition Spaces Places Traces. It started on<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAHvF6mEPB0&feature=youtu.be"> LV21 in Gravesend,</a> went onto <a href="https://www.rspacelisburn.com/places-spaces-and-traces">R-Space,Lisburn in Northern Ireland</a> before travelling on to <a href="http://www.anna3.be/tentoonstelling.html#">Sint Anna-ten-Drieën in Antwerp</a> in the Summer 2022-23, before coming to <a href="http://svaf.co.uk/sevenoaks-kaleidoscope-art-gallery/">The Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Art Gallery</a>, where it will be on show until it final day on Saturday 7 January 2023 when I will be in the gallery between 2.00 and 3.00pm for a 'Meet the Artist' session.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Below are a few images of the installation The Shipping Forecast and Empty Vessels at the gallery. <a href="https://casholmes.wordpress.com/exhibitions/">More details about this work here.</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7dLGCPVFhGYdA4eAR79ukycRyjl-QgfSVzu2MB2-5GZpQ7r_cx4psFjIbbvXNxfbZfdokg9oVRzuhHDPtBABsI-XZdVgW0gkzHeeeaGja696xdi0fttJ-xzpgsYuZ6OXjPbfWU1KT_rPd9xqri-ewrZas1zNH9XG5rREHpxoF6iOf3l_4kB7rVL9v/s5184/Sevenoaks%20Kalaidascope%20(34).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: large;">Work in response to What We Value, What We Miss small domestic pieces by individuals and a group piece A Story Cloth of Our Time by 52 Stitched Stories, Isle of Arran. <a href="https://casholmes.wordpress.com/what-we-value-what-we-miss/">Read more about all the contributors to date here.</a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyPhuQdpk_xLKi_o3Log-TGROg4Z4jJuv8o1X6-diBNdM7k8h4bvZVkcQ1AC3RSrj35rzRl8sE_uaM4yyFyFIUbACnoagtVRVn1iOoZAmKI2kCzMDN-ABLVI-LVzrK7IBD5a8pE3Mfz25TA5AJijykoMtuP0DCb-Cew2R5UmMsH0MCbrkXkmxQN9Em/s1349/Sevenoals.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="714" data-original-width="1349" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyPhuQdpk_xLKi_o3Log-TGROg4Z4jJuv8o1X6-diBNdM7k8h4bvZVkcQ1AC3RSrj35rzRl8sE_uaM4yyFyFIUbACnoagtVRVn1iOoZAmKI2kCzMDN-ABLVI-LVzrK7IBD5a8pE3Mfz25TA5AJijykoMtuP0DCb-Cew2R5UmMsH0MCbrkXkmxQN9Em/w640-h338/Sevenoals.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This exhibition then travels to Scotland and Wales completing its own 'four nations' tour. <a href="https://casholmes.wordpress.com/exhibitions/">Details are posted on my website.</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>Other exhibitions:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.arttextilesmadeinbritain.co.uk/">Found:Art Textile Made in Britain</a> continued its tour in the UK following its exhibition at the Festival of Quilts in 2021. I am grateful for my fellow artists for hanging and transporting the works for me. We are currently working on a new exhibition 'Illuminate' which will be available to tour from Autumn 2023</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic-t0OB8X4WekEKUBUxQS3-y_950nCGtMmNh-3iPMy7pjxrNtDmFJIk9d0nbKI-pAlm387Rq-3F7D1ZvLqGzBnAKNLowIcruyFykMLmGz0TxD-mrgEM1hdkTVep0elmb9Z0BaSzNSl-01h_wKZM_aSzf7mMSUQyHFccGtadoAE04yN56XSSDu9UU6f/s1406/244714851_1827258480814495_4161430362257177748_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="837" data-original-width="1406" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic-t0OB8X4WekEKUBUxQS3-y_950nCGtMmNh-3iPMy7pjxrNtDmFJIk9d0nbKI-pAlm387Rq-3F7D1ZvLqGzBnAKNLowIcruyFykMLmGz0TxD-mrgEM1hdkTVep0elmb9Z0BaSzNSl-01h_wKZM_aSzf7mMSUQyHFccGtadoAE04yN56XSSDu9UU6f/w400-h238/244714851_1827258480814495_4161430362257177748_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I was delighted to have ‘The Downs: Wind Torn’ featured in the touring exhibition “</span><a href="https://www.internationalquiltmuseum.org/exhibition/gaia" style="font-family: arial;">For the Love of Gaia”</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> at the </span><a href="https://www.neqm.org/" style="font-family: arial;">New England Quilt Museum Jan-Apr 2022 </a></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY6cll174sXFhApUX1N8TZRJ79K9iXKfxzVNr2si3n1Fm8dBVu_gJUYgO5fjepIxWZo-MfaRd1XQDiOUHiAPys3o7bGD7L_cAw_o9Bvv6yHtTBpU_kdKryoyY8SGyhZuVCNPCPfG3f-hzE2taPgiEhWOjy7T_Iepa7MNDDrfuL7UgVryJqJ2YfBYnN/s3597/IMG_5113.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1571" data-original-width="3597" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY6cll174sXFhApUX1N8TZRJ79K9iXKfxzVNr2si3n1Fm8dBVu_gJUYgO5fjepIxWZo-MfaRd1XQDiOUHiAPys3o7bGD7L_cAw_o9Bvv6yHtTBpU_kdKryoyY8SGyhZuVCNPCPfG3f-hzE2taPgiEhWOjy7T_Iepa7MNDDrfuL7UgVryJqJ2YfBYnN/w640-h280/IMG_5113.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.farfieldmill.org/painting-with-cloth-cas-holmes/" style="font-family: arial;">Painting with Cloth completed its tour at Farfield Mill</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> in Sedbergh, Cumbria March to May. Take a tour with this </span><a href="https://youtu.be/dJfNpmWd1RM" style="font-family: arial;">video by Fibre Arts Takes Two</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKOg1aFHLG8tTopB-QB62l1bO1eJWmsBkxBWOndivoMxVFUjOt2pmyzOhkWhep3Ho7ICSL8uri-jNJvMBKaxlfA1abW-HFlGv2S2dHQDyDVjTQSzsM_lqfv86thPFz1iOdxBJJssJ4GOJgvInwB4gZ5Z1iaxBgM9KxrYJZGjAXtkgwvKTsGSMAKc5X/s1330/RAG-CasHolmes-20190514-WEB-6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="887" data-original-width="1330" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKOg1aFHLG8tTopB-QB62l1bO1eJWmsBkxBWOndivoMxVFUjOt2pmyzOhkWhep3Ho7ICSL8uri-jNJvMBKaxlfA1abW-HFlGv2S2dHQDyDVjTQSzsM_lqfv86thPFz1iOdxBJJssJ4GOJgvInwB4gZ5Z1iaxBgM9KxrYJZGjAXtkgwvKTsGSMAKc5X/w640-h426/RAG-CasHolmes-20190514-WEB-6.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I had a piece in the</span><a href="https://embroiderersguild.com/" style="font-family: arial;"> Embroiderer's Guild</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> Collections exhibition. called Emakimono at the</span><a href="http://casholmes.blogspot.com/2022/10/a-brief-day-at-knitting-and-stitching.html" style="font-family: arial;"> Knitting and Stitching Show</a><span style="font-family: arial;">, (you can hear </span><a href="https://youtu.be/U2m3yDFYAj0" style="font-family: arial;">more about it here</a><span style="font-family: arial;">). I also finally caught up with a much delayed book signing on the </span><a href="https://www.batsfordbooks.com/contributor/cas-holmes-2/" style="font-family: arial;">Batsford</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> stand. I will be doing a project with the Guild in 2023 check out future posts.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj4zyGqDEGtz6gDr0QmohgDWlD4bXBaVVPHb14ZgklGmjuGJ-OPjBxN6HN11VaJ99ctCm-b6OpUJDp1t2lBPir9lqU2y6HKCV7IkWbuP8jtY5B3FqTNjaC488cjCATIRHBn_X2wFK60UlRiPyEm-dD9oiXihpnXNvrkbspsVSwHZv0DouXcEUvXVtN/s5184/IMG_1972.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj4zyGqDEGtz6gDr0QmohgDWlD4bXBaVVPHb14ZgklGmjuGJ-OPjBxN6HN11VaJ99ctCm-b6OpUJDp1t2lBPir9lqU2y6HKCV7IkWbuP8jtY5B3FqTNjaC488cjCATIRHBn_X2wFK60UlRiPyEm-dD9oiXihpnXNvrkbspsVSwHZv0DouXcEUvXVtN/w640-h426/IMG_1972.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Interviews, teaching and lecturing </b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I was so pleased to have been able to lead my first 'in-person workshop at<a href="https://www.westdean.org.uk/study/tutors/cas-holmes"> West Dean College</a> as part of a series of special one-off courses to mark the 50th anniversary of its founding by Edward James, poet, patron of the arts and visionary of the 20th century. West Dean has supported my work by enabling me to offer Zoom courses over the last year but I will be so pleased to be back in-person in September 2023</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I gave a number of other virtual talks and workshops over the year including: </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/courses/casholmes/">'Making Connections'</a> course with<a href="https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/"> Fibre Arts Takes Two</a>. I will be running this course again in April 2023. You can access<a href="https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/articles/holmes-2/"> my interview here</a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRXScwthYZWwcsFpNQuZYGbxo8cLbXKeCbH1rqgrnDfKb8Ng8yk8HNnauSh0YfG53ivM1JUeGu1nzT1z63DvP_wNGFwW0DmGVIyybRyRLjBacVONmzQm6bOfqX-4Km8eJzi5krnfmCdaqgIwhDn6lWQRdNyqyUyyaUSHpjlc05o5ayUX9xxWnUp8Wh" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1041" data-original-width="833" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRXScwthYZWwcsFpNQuZYGbxo8cLbXKeCbH1rqgrnDfKb8Ng8yk8HNnauSh0YfG53ivM1JUeGu1nzT1z63DvP_wNGFwW0DmGVIyybRyRLjBacVONmzQm6bOfqX-4Km8eJzi5krnfmCdaqgIwhDn6lWQRdNyqyUyyaUSHpjlc05o5ayUX9xxWnUp8Wh=w512-h640" width="512" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://fashiontextilemuseum.org/">Fashion and Textile Museum i</a>n July (I am yet to make a much desired visit).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Workshops to support mental health and wellbeing with the <a href="https://www.mentalfightclub.art/past-events">Mental Fight Club</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.creativewestend.net/">Creative West End</a> in partnership with <a href="https://www.goodthingscollective.co.uk/projectsandprogrammes">Good Things Collective</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Private workshops and talks with textile groups and schools.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Interview series <a href="https://jennifersteck.com/inspired-to-create-with-cas-holmes/?fbclid=IwAR1O3E9DlO5C3DiiWo1wWPNVqrRRCm6TjQWDfXHCCrOYfLmGGpn0mJ0WvsE">Inspired to Create with Jennifer Steck Art</a>s in July. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am pleased to have some projects and workshops planned for 2023 and will be updating my workshop and events posts in the New Year. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am creating in smaller snatches of time and can always see a 'Glimmer' of possibilities. Happy New Year.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIY-rvia6yNUsbhGUlRZCCughyzxN-5H5VHphRJAR-ZvzWTddq0nWNsKL7-pRqqXrk4B7TbxxE6H6CItzgw_1FzsIdcYCPxac_CBoZ-bxu4tDAVai1gVnICUoKZ7vd-8a1HtkNo5wxYzWETPp9E2r9zKKDtDT3981qGfsYLSJqhN_HJQB_QZ6sXp5S/s3561/Glimmer%20Cas%20Holmes%20(1).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2619" data-original-width="3561" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIY-rvia6yNUsbhGUlRZCCughyzxN-5H5VHphRJAR-ZvzWTddq0nWNsKL7-pRqqXrk4B7TbxxE6H6CItzgw_1FzsIdcYCPxac_CBoZ-bxu4tDAVai1gVnICUoKZ7vd-8a1HtkNo5wxYzWETPp9E2r9zKKDtDT3981qGfsYLSJqhN_HJQB_QZ6sXp5S/w640-h470/Glimmer%20Cas%20Holmes%20(1).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj10CE0lqwTTdHHuLl_VaouP642fWvPNC77mYzohcWRt3U6zUvYbjMQMXWbEdeNuyZOEn7ymdvK-ZZhyJmHnpdKfdmGSb-_zGX12MHheif3i2UrPlTbDsP6-ios4wH1HMwyVJl5Wtqih-p_CTc4kYzww35YGkSaxLWLk3jLev0A7daTFDN6_B_Cta9Y/s2848/IMG_20220629_190442%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2697" data-original-width="2848" height="606" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj10CE0lqwTTdHHuLl_VaouP642fWvPNC77mYzohcWRt3U6zUvYbjMQMXWbEdeNuyZOEn7ymdvK-ZZhyJmHnpdKfdmGSb-_zGX12MHheif3i2UrPlTbDsP6-ios4wH1HMwyVJl5Wtqih-p_CTc4kYzww35YGkSaxLWLk3jLev0A7daTFDN6_B_Cta9Y/w640-h606/IMG_20220629_190442%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-74075585538335464872022-11-13T15:57:00.002+00:002022-11-13T15:57:43.517+00:00All at Sea: Embroidery Magazine, Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Exhibition and Workshops<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Places, Spaces, Traces exhibited at<a href="http://www.anna3.be/tentoonstelling.html#"> Sint Anna-ten-Drieën,</a> during the Summer will be touring in the UK during 2022-23:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgleynAakNkmKxRvZW7R9iapiTBqVMWlJE4bMxefxiG8zd7XRJpc0EPoS2xDd-OZdwb9YYpI6rlcIEdILBfdZ8gcWDX3zA4QQK-W2UMEEWzTIqykq2YEuC5BLap7WG37IYTwqrCOeD5-EKktPEIoaMMonDt980PlTpprKpqTYgVieiZa49kBwswC4Gt/s5184/Shipping%20Forecast%20C%20(20).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgleynAakNkmKxRvZW7R9iapiTBqVMWlJE4bMxefxiG8zd7XRJpc0EPoS2xDd-OZdwb9YYpI6rlcIEdILBfdZ8gcWDX3zA4QQK-W2UMEEWzTIqykq2YEuC5BLap7WG37IYTwqrCOeD5-EKktPEIoaMMonDt980PlTpprKpqTYgVieiZa49kBwswC4Gt/w640-h426/Shipping%20Forecast%20C%20(20).JPG" width="640" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;">The Shipping Forecast at Sint Anna-ten-Drien</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The first venue is at<a href="http://svaf.co.uk/sevenoaks-kaleidoscope-art-gallery/"> Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Art Gallery from 7 December 2022 until 7 January 2023.</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The exhibition reflects on my Romani heritage and our concept of place. I am interested in the commonalities we have as people, the need for a place of our own, family and food. With migration, changes in our working lives and increasing opportunities to travel, our certainty about who we are and where we fit in is unsure.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Please look on the<a href="https://casholmes.wordpress.com/exhibitions/"> exhibitions page</a> on my website for further venues.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdqnaj530lZrHkKA6UD9GT838-t9DOWlLLvVMhf3og4WSiCnjpAsQeGmdbZyAFv-7xn36Kd36lM_rFQlT22XJv1S2SLmAJEWqCgOsPmFN0ebAVRmdQhfytcRiQT3aNIWdlfSvvRwkc1n3I8WZa6FKXKs9sln9_5uKsIdGk1kgw7GnWW42XA6u8sr0e/s1080/313375309_5868380049862390_1762481216529111289_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdqnaj530lZrHkKA6UD9GT838-t9DOWlLLvVMhf3og4WSiCnjpAsQeGmdbZyAFv-7xn36Kd36lM_rFQlT22XJv1S2SLmAJEWqCgOsPmFN0ebAVRmdQhfytcRiQT3aNIWdlfSvvRwkc1n3I8WZa6FKXKs9sln9_5uKsIdGk1kgw7GnWW42XA6u8sr0e/s320/313375309_5868380049862390_1762481216529111289_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Front cover by Jenny Adin-Christie </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I am thrilled to have a four page article 'All at Sea' in the latest edition of <a href="https://embroiderymagazine.co.uk/">Embroidery magazine </a>Finding myself becalmed the article explores some of the themes covered in the exhibtion and how I am continuing my practice through changing circumstances at home</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">. </span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvj6sMJ0ChcT4rUiir_pAdRjbz_Z1RC-_IRpMIPScE3INwyOeRl3cWNZ6v4FM-cwNHqKqOfqR6S3E7buPWI6tuoOes2LJfywH6-CjH6RQLZdwlBnOgftmMTjOoV181Pk8vi40x7FsdK1DLNLbMUlY6yODUEOnGL3QllHJw5_Sy6QAHFO5QZgklCUU6/s1080/312134376_5868380053195723_562525669458441528_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvj6sMJ0ChcT4rUiir_pAdRjbz_Z1RC-_IRpMIPScE3INwyOeRl3cWNZ6v4FM-cwNHqKqOfqR6S3E7buPWI6tuoOes2LJfywH6-CjH6RQLZdwlBnOgftmMTjOoV181Pk8vi40x7FsdK1DLNLbMUlY6yODUEOnGL3QllHJw5_Sy6QAHFO5QZgklCUU6/w640-h640/312134376_5868380053195723_562525669458441528_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDjRzFJaZ3MX2An9K44Cts8or4dPK8Fd3PzECOWkzs9gx4Gn6i5K9dEh3cQCPtj4f-PoY0kclnwVrTlHh9z8yn8SCKhFdmLZtLEZ-bmj6j3YKvi1FmOBu6iSmatsyEDKc9knMYLJ0Op5JPpdxS_SspwomNMEyT8utPly_lhyqWaf9UiZq4iqZSIRF5/s1080/312477613_5868380056529056_760127639798564869_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDjRzFJaZ3MX2An9K44Cts8or4dPK8Fd3PzECOWkzs9gx4Gn6i5K9dEh3cQCPtj4f-PoY0kclnwVrTlHh9z8yn8SCKhFdmLZtLEZ-bmj6j3YKvi1FmOBu6iSmatsyEDKc9knMYLJ0Op5JPpdxS_SspwomNMEyT8utPly_lhyqWaf9UiZq4iqZSIRF5/w640-h640/312477613_5868380056529056_760127639798564869_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You can order a copy virtually or digitally via the Embroidery Magazine website</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">New work, <a href="https://youtu.be/U2m3yDFYAj0">Emaki-Mono</a> is also currently on exhibition with the The Embroiderers’ Guild – UK as part of the Collections exhibition at the <a href="https://www.theknittingandstitchingshow.com/harrogate/the-textile-galleries/the-embroiderers-guild/">Knitting & Stitching Shows in Harrogate.</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZMryFfoFPCM1sT-nZcG9iRxkg46o9EGhUF-wISUc09J12_p9fZAmi66HFgaXxC-MDEWU4FFQH-UH4HkBrDkOtyU2x9jVHBX5A2TNx4ByKEL5zqetU1k1rbV1h2EDrvsQ5t8xPzhYSDeOTZiBIqD5Gr06Xogt4V_gADGsA2HoRjv6RqzUvhMuTU887" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1023" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZMryFfoFPCM1sT-nZcG9iRxkg46o9EGhUF-wISUc09J12_p9fZAmi66HFgaXxC-MDEWU4FFQH-UH4HkBrDkOtyU2x9jVHBX5A2TNx4ByKEL5zqetU1k1rbV1h2EDrvsQ5t8xPzhYSDeOTZiBIqD5Gr06Xogt4V_gADGsA2HoRjv6RqzUvhMuTU887=w640-h470" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Workshops</b></span></h2><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuobapMD7HXezWhLhJMOYFro1GEUWWA3SdUfC0dfJ90ckzc1jet-fj076dL9Uxvz1FaexgWoJk3t8LwOydAr49Y_U6VXAcea3uxH2O4_PVeYqfrEkuOZQfRF2IKLQUcsA3g8uYXBk7Oj3rPR4KRpvFyRDCH-6L0B8tY95Tk8hox7hjtwRy8Br7yZVZ/s5184/Discovery%20Map%20(26).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuobapMD7HXezWhLhJMOYFro1GEUWWA3SdUfC0dfJ90ckzc1jet-fj076dL9Uxvz1FaexgWoJk3t8LwOydAr49Y_U6VXAcea3uxH2O4_PVeYqfrEkuOZQfRF2IKLQUcsA3g8uYXBk7Oj3rPR4KRpvFyRDCH-6L0B8tY95Tk8hox7hjtwRy8Br7yZVZ/w640-h426/Discovery%20Map%20(26).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Discovery Maps</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Finally, but not least I am delighted to be able to offer a bespoke online course for West Dean Colleg</span><span style="font-family: arial;">e:</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.westdean.org.uk/study/short-courses/courses/scw12620-live-online-course-create-a-stitch-sketchbook-map?fbclid=IwAR3TW5a63zN5UWLV89ft-7afwyw4CE5b3ZoF9-H3qF-TJFU0mCLL08QRKMk">Create A Stitch-Sketchbook Map-20 and 22 February 2023</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Develop your visual narrative in mixed-media textiles using stitch, paint and collage to create improvisational folding book forms, as you reference ideas surrounding a journey or place.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A limited number of places available on this live via Zoom course on Monday February 20th and Wednesday 22nd February 2023. Tuesday 21st is an untutored day for self-directed study while developing your work. £150</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Fingers crossed, I am currently scheduling a live workshop with West Dean for September 2023</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">All future workshops will be posted on my<a href="https://casholmes.wordpress.com/workshops/"> workshops link</a> on my website.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That my exhibitions and some events have been able to take place has been due to the generousity of my project partners and friends. Private views, talks and workshops have been held virtually where I have not been able to attend personally due to a change in personal circumstances. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I would like to thank them all here for supporting me in the last year enabling me to keep my practice going alongside my role as a carer/enabler.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Who would have known that the skills I developed during the last couple of years of the pandemic would prove so useful now?</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6d7h-KnNE7jwJ1oJbXg_LaS-UWKmS3IyantJp00WqZBzhqAri_0xtY55-4jKsKfcB6oJo18UvwSvz83dh7XaqIWOFVigWebcmdgnjuEbv9GDUpnsutYWv-od0UaQ6adA1Q23-DWVBTdgdqhpKCwIUgfiSgP3rA52WjdYPwJGaNQZ8DnITIPf3J36Z/s809/120550635_2094941850636300_9188857301893652379_n%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="809" data-original-width="711" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6d7h-KnNE7jwJ1oJbXg_LaS-UWKmS3IyantJp00WqZBzhqAri_0xtY55-4jKsKfcB6oJo18UvwSvz83dh7XaqIWOFVigWebcmdgnjuEbv9GDUpnsutYWv-od0UaQ6adA1Q23-DWVBTdgdqhpKCwIUgfiSgP3rA52WjdYPwJGaNQZ8DnITIPf3J36Z/w351-h400/120550635_2094941850636300_9188857301893652379_n%20(2).jpg" width="351" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-32443465858411302462022-10-30T18:16:00.002+00:002022-10-30T18:16:51.486+00:00Colour of Life. Red and Indigo<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As we enter November, there is a dampness in the air combined with peaty smell of the earth to remind us that the days are shortening. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>The Red</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifNKJP4jG4l3AxbsK4EkoVVrKdCNnziNj6NUVTK5EFEw96KkIaYtwQcGLXeIOPBonqP20Iye0nvQ46qmoXAGseWLkSfIsfMqguOxgK2oaW7gsdlJwJz8vH0V_VeS4_HIeREgfZ_X_hLcRRYzBsrg1sBh6dkIRMKDpyOaFL5oPTYcdisxFtsYdtPbrB/s1271/Red%20Trees%202.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="1271" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifNKJP4jG4l3AxbsK4EkoVVrKdCNnziNj6NUVTK5EFEw96KkIaYtwQcGLXeIOPBonqP20Iye0nvQ46qmoXAGseWLkSfIsfMqguOxgK2oaW7gsdlJwJz8vH0V_VeS4_HIeREgfZ_X_hLcRRYzBsrg1sBh6dkIRMKDpyOaFL5oPTYcdisxFtsYdtPbrB/w640-h398/Red%20Trees%202.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This piece, Red Trees made with collected fabrics given to me by local friends, marks the long familiar narrow lanes discovered in my walks near Maidstone. The trees casting shadows over over me as I think of the ancients who have trod its path before me.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Pilgrims Way was thought to be an ancient trading route</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> dating back to Neolithic times</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> long before it was adopted for Pilgrimage. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Neolithic monuments Kit’s Coty and the Coffin Stone sit close by the route in Maidstone and are examples of </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Long barrows, also known as chambered tombs</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Thus trade and salvation sat side by side on this ancient path</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In ancient times, tin, bronze and copper was traded along the length of route. The wealth of Medieval England was founded on its tracks in which all kinds of desired goods </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">including the dye Madder sought for the wool trade, and semi-precious stones and perfumes </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">from the 'exotic' East</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The piece is currently on exhibition in </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Tutankhamun and t</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">he Field of Reeds t</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">o mark the centenary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The scroll marks the sacredness of ancient footways and our connection to the past.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpb7NpM7JEV4Ao33X5UjtmH9xjKnfMreFkXhm8ZZabVUKYUkigQwXdDcOM7aDFB6Yyi45851syQJsVo4erYIbjAGIGkRt9LLnGpyTRBCx9TLLQOa5pHITDPausSmzx9W4PyU3mGmiO0HTSQoyqkq-jyBFmLnTnWdyofH2p32bXIaTyYu02mlZp3HdC/s1052/Red%20Trees%201.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="834" data-original-width="1052" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpb7NpM7JEV4Ao33X5UjtmH9xjKnfMreFkXhm8ZZabVUKYUkigQwXdDcOM7aDFB6Yyi45851syQJsVo4erYIbjAGIGkRt9LLnGpyTRBCx9TLLQOa5pHITDPausSmzx9W4PyU3mGmiO0HTSQoyqkq-jyBFmLnTnWdyofH2p32bXIaTyYu02mlZp3HdC/w640-h508/Red%20Trees%201.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Red Trees seen with the Muttering bird on the left is by <a href="http://www.robertrace.co.uk/">Robert Race</a>, mask is by Guerrino Lovato and the Ibis (head) on the right by Madeleine Mars. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Photographs courtesy of Julia Toms</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUKTp4gnpF-GSnqA1oDkZ-S6UcsMVqBgzeBB5ryez4XQeUhtaom8CGZhcIfV1nO07_qEN33uNoCGwjKKBtwAhKdSh1kaF-JDDH4JVf4fJadgue2DjfJEQgztpRq26ljGZfOdK7u_tvGW6LNE5i80r7XQ_WxGSx83tl63EM-fQ6aETMqoAqbaCQQCPv/s1249/Red%20Trees%204.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="1249" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUKTp4gnpF-GSnqA1oDkZ-S6UcsMVqBgzeBB5ryez4XQeUhtaom8CGZhcIfV1nO07_qEN33uNoCGwjKKBtwAhKdSh1kaF-JDDH4JVf4fJadgue2DjfJEQgztpRq26ljGZfOdK7u_tvGW6LNE5i80r7XQ_WxGSx83tl63EM-fQ6aETMqoAqbaCQQCPv/w640-h388/Red%20Trees%204.png" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The exhibition runs from the 4 November 2022 to 7 January 2023, by appointment only at the Barn near Chichester. If oyu would like to go or to attend the </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> Private View on Friday, 4 November 2022, 3-7pm please contact the </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">organiser </span><a href="mailto:sharon@sharonmichi.com" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Dr Sharon-Michi Kusunok</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">i, </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxXuXKNsSxxAdQIg9HKoAcpi_VLoH23vKT19hX8ZMD136P5ksUYE4nZyoPDTx5TTeU7lXaivjDbYYvcvBucNCPFYHY-udtbo2uIRG2jGiGPjusHmYctQH_tdi87YqbDoCFTuav7jL2MfLFEHp_58zJO2NRqPplLX12tgXE967wy1u9tb3Ls8LueQ0k/s800/Screenshot%20(273).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="545" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxXuXKNsSxxAdQIg9HKoAcpi_VLoH23vKT19hX8ZMD136P5ksUYE4nZyoPDTx5TTeU7lXaivjDbYYvcvBucNCPFYHY-udtbo2uIRG2jGiGPjusHmYctQH_tdi87YqbDoCFTuav7jL2MfLFEHp_58zJO2NRqPplLX12tgXE967wy1u9tb3Ls8LueQ0k/w436-h640/Screenshot%20(273).png" width="436" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGVZMzWGvUcDTP1loaX45VfS823qp00dEStaUUW3Xr-dDfiNeMPa5UPxIwIBh5z77DqdpZgGE_gqwv4uQaXGiuYgMvbTjvHWPPIo6Ifmpf96X97HNfNXX04S0lGu27nc8N_Nfr66gNZI4GXhwZbBm7OlRejfcSRQjU9ZsvOIcnliWu8t2fD4V6fS2c/s713/Screenshot%20(274).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="713" data-original-width="542" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGVZMzWGvUcDTP1loaX45VfS823qp00dEStaUUW3Xr-dDfiNeMPa5UPxIwIBh5z77DqdpZgGE_gqwv4uQaXGiuYgMvbTjvHWPPIo6Ifmpf96X97HNfNXX04S0lGu27nc8N_Nfr66gNZI4GXhwZbBm7OlRejfcSRQjU9ZsvOIcnliWu8t2fD4V6fS2c/w486-h640/Screenshot%20(274).png" width="486" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Indigo</b></span></h2><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I have just read An <a href="https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/an-indigo-summer/">Indigo Summer by Ellie Evelyn Orrel</a>l. (University of Wales Press 2022)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I was hooked within the first few pages where here writing effortlessly and lyrically dances across the page like a Welsh Bard. Out of a summer of dyeing Indigo cloth with her mother, artist <a href="https://jeanetteorrell.bigcartel.com/">Jeanette Orelle </a>unfolds a story reflecting a love of simple things, loss and creativity </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The roots of her story </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">echo my own studies in Japan, adaptation of process, and a love of 'things imperfect' I attribute to my Romani grandmother</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAeVc5pNd9ajkLmv-bcbvkqXJzNI-G81GLtA65hgs4qmLjXc5pRv2rN6qzunCxoazHu2X7dDyr3dstvuK2TgNt9oU0qKG9-kTNuXP4f0lbFZ6vnYKMI7Z9fBgULnbF-Bpizy_St5rupQaZkweReniuZNOXb2CYI-G_BB4Rv-gkl5wOzsGEq7ylvE4O/s3493/IMG_20221030_164302.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2615" data-original-width="3493" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAeVc5pNd9ajkLmv-bcbvkqXJzNI-G81GLtA65hgs4qmLjXc5pRv2rN6qzunCxoazHu2X7dDyr3dstvuK2TgNt9oU0qKG9-kTNuXP4f0lbFZ6vnYKMI7Z9fBgULnbF-Bpizy_St5rupQaZkweReniuZNOXb2CYI-G_BB4Rv-gkl5wOzsGEq7ylvE4O/w640-h480/IMG_20221030_164302.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-55233666390575788392022-10-11T13:00:00.001+01:002022-10-11T13:00:52.414+01:00A Brief Day at the Knitting and Stitching Show<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I was able to visit the <a href="https://www.theknittingandstitchingshow.com/london/">Knitting and Stitching Show </a>last Friday and whilst there took some images of pieces which caught my eye. First <a href="https://www.theknittingandstitchingshow.com/london/fata-winners-2022/">The Fine Arts Textiles Awar</a>d</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXn8oSVZP3xGYo4M7k9AGDPZiqLeyu5BsE5xwL6nk6kjbzLPiDSJkuI_A2FTi0OtlvfjjaBeMiPYE-wk8kkJVKElAYUkakgsINniGSz2e53181VeG489WqolqScGpdo8d0Ny_Cqp-6Xk9TvGqNE3LaPEvS94-JJWSWgPotpBHz3Bgy5ywhzcKNwjwH/s4160/Mandy%20Coppes%20Martin%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXn8oSVZP3xGYo4M7k9AGDPZiqLeyu5BsE5xwL6nk6kjbzLPiDSJkuI_A2FTi0OtlvfjjaBeMiPYE-wk8kkJVKElAYUkakgsINniGSz2e53181VeG489WqolqScGpdo8d0Ny_Cqp-6Xk9TvGqNE3LaPEvS94-JJWSWgPotpBHz3Bgy5ywhzcKNwjwH/w480-h640/Mandy%20Coppes%20Martin%20(1).jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3532" data-original-width="2954" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS7CcCy8IQCllntnyLw3XgTnBlhyXFdA_zby31q5h0ilOp7Y4aNS3yVge1N4-P-48gAafRGy7tnEnof2gExLGMnt47HbOzuQDl4hrL6suSebWNhSebbI94eOQNs72Az0xaSmuqKuP5XGLfYGW1qX12Of2hD8jhMs1LdC8rYpk8q-nyx5_r0lA7XM42/w335-h400/Mandy%20Coppes%20Martin%20(2).jpg" width="335" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mandy Coppes-Martin Transient Myopia</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpLt0i_jTEDW139OKDXnTMY58k1r-BHoerT4DzlNdAjsjeyxSYQ6j2kHTeuk8jYYExVD5P8y6p5CAUDzTUM2eBbBnUO-0mJ9v-9CxMMpE4UstqVQ83vUVdScSL_kHlEj7XMilNk25DIeTuvWE3eEqVZ-ko41ShouPJipl544hyGYpKO6_hgIUwEG2t/s4160/Marian%20Jazmik.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpLt0i_jTEDW139OKDXnTMY58k1r-BHoerT4DzlNdAjsjeyxSYQ6j2kHTeuk8jYYExVD5P8y6p5CAUDzTUM2eBbBnUO-0mJ9v-9CxMMpE4UstqVQ83vUVdScSL_kHlEj7XMilNk25DIeTuvWE3eEqVZ-ko41ShouPJipl544hyGYpKO6_hgIUwEG2t/w640-h480/Marian%20Jazmik.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Marian Jazmik Stems and Stalks</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR-YH7FUhTPTJ0dp-S9UxF3tDGmS-BKgF4tAuSeGc183bPDwiguLP3HTpF2-Bm71tC19r6EtMV2yRDsI4_fxa_vooLLpiHlM-dQr1FsFSf_KEdzw6358lyQ-pwn-hbHXlJasXopd3g1rtiduuGh9aJqqOkwvvbj0ABFJqaPKXNLTpIjLsAzLe9UClV/s4160/Jess%20Blaustein%20Table%20Settings%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR-YH7FUhTPTJ0dp-S9UxF3tDGmS-BKgF4tAuSeGc183bPDwiguLP3HTpF2-Bm71tC19r6EtMV2yRDsI4_fxa_vooLLpiHlM-dQr1FsFSf_KEdzw6358lyQ-pwn-hbHXlJasXopd3g1rtiduuGh9aJqqOkwvvbj0ABFJqaPKXNLTpIjLsAzLe9UClV/w480-h640/Jess%20Blaustein%20Table%20Settings%20(2).jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Jess Blaustein Table Settings The winning piece</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia6N39MoX7WftgbpsqtnUQfwRjX0dX0_5ClXPpISifXUwLh4igp8yGO-CPE3714LyEKpPNKoBtoPLAVPYIwVeMu7g5XiPij3BQTO83gbxdFM6x-fJ3yeqT-ehqUREGnanDJPc4L0G_kHnW02qEd5v7ICpWkJS9-xIvXkKd-YycKqxOAOOCILtNjkY9/s3809/Jane%20Walkley%20Rhythm%20of%20the%20Weave%203.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3809" data-original-width="3107" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia6N39MoX7WftgbpsqtnUQfwRjX0dX0_5ClXPpISifXUwLh4igp8yGO-CPE3714LyEKpPNKoBtoPLAVPYIwVeMu7g5XiPij3BQTO83gbxdFM6x-fJ3yeqT-ehqUREGnanDJPc4L0G_kHnW02qEd5v7ICpWkJS9-xIvXkKd-YycKqxOAOOCILtNjkY9/w522-h640/Jane%20Walkley%20Rhythm%20of%20the%20Weave%203.jpg" width="522" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div>Jane Walkley Rhythm of the Weave III</div><h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">A lot of the galleries featured figurative work this year</span></h4></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt7vqP4W8Cqatf5Eb68pmnnxgcwej2l3_wbWo0J9HBp1AISGR310u43FPDqCPwVewnQxjnZH1hNwId9p-Vmk9I3q5UQIJdvKFc3Sdegmmo-Mw2nWE_-KpOP6osXvmCm7WqoS33rReCNo46CMoIyqV-fDAnMoeqsZ7cSlcKWJB6GlpYYEdYQwIKIrVs/w480-h640/Damasque%20Wells%20(3).jpg" width="480" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Damasque Wells</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Damasque Wells work particularly felt like a contemporary take on some of the pieces echoed in the Embroiderer's Guild Collections exhibition </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">in celebration of Embroidery magazine having been in print for 90 years. The exhibition illustrates how embroidery has developed through the decades.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioVi5YHCC2tuwcr33e6FA_ku0oKaB2hGk-ecQJl64vgQpeLGK6EB1aSr5OorddY2bq_jXpG3KMYZDmbI3fG1Ags-XsVM_jRbdqzMCSae__sa7TZ6ZEMtlNlSm88FYWyu2tCoy_rYGmc8HgYWEtvq7asA0qB0DiwAzBpHLI6ngkYC2y3JA2lNPDz1rJ/s3217/Mary%20Rhodes%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3217" data-original-width="2435" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioVi5YHCC2tuwcr33e6FA_ku0oKaB2hGk-ecQJl64vgQpeLGK6EB1aSr5OorddY2bq_jXpG3KMYZDmbI3fG1Ags-XsVM_jRbdqzMCSae__sa7TZ6ZEMtlNlSm88FYWyu2tCoy_rYGmc8HgYWEtvq7asA0qB0DiwAzBpHLI6ngkYC2y3JA2lNPDz1rJ/w484-h640/Mary%20Rhodes%20(2).jpg" width="484" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mary Rhodes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9JmaqpqjYoncOfsX-yx2ha5lGKZSOjrHiQvfUpAAmqbelQ9Y7pXKAxGUGVEjsxGyLhUuTXC-2KtcKmHbiXQMdSnwdGpkZhIvXd8uY01S9skSWwf0kt2W5J0YXfiEU-ZpBSGebUE227SCbl17Hqc8MULfvgecG9cCSpWCmr8OKY-IQMV3-nA-JwijV/s3939/Audrey%20Walker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3939" data-original-width="2670" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9JmaqpqjYoncOfsX-yx2ha5lGKZSOjrHiQvfUpAAmqbelQ9Y7pXKAxGUGVEjsxGyLhUuTXC-2KtcKmHbiXQMdSnwdGpkZhIvXd8uY01S9skSWwf0kt2W5J0YXfiEU-ZpBSGebUE227SCbl17Hqc8MULfvgecG9cCSpWCmr8OKY-IQMV3-nA-JwijV/w434-h640/Audrey%20Walker.jpg" width="434" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Audrey Walker</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCxe2VnSYtq5ejkNHvK0v3BWH0t6UyQsZIIeAPwUg5bpQn5_NJ61DWbXUifhAnZJbLzpYj_WMvYEXKMKKuEHzz42V_LXK6SGPWwrUiGf9XecO3lEFZqT_URQ4zCCxxGgstzjRYSBJhVJnIlO0qkWH4Zq9xtgX9DoTA0DEUldiA2oyQzksdIyQLBzL7/s1350/310949075_578317927472366_3890841578550044726_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCxe2VnSYtq5ejkNHvK0v3BWH0t6UyQsZIIeAPwUg5bpQn5_NJ61DWbXUifhAnZJbLzpYj_WMvYEXKMKKuEHzz42V_LXK6SGPWwrUiGf9XecO3lEFZqT_URQ4zCCxxGgstzjRYSBJhVJnIlO0qkWH4Zq9xtgX9DoTA0DEUldiA2oyQzksdIyQLBzL7/w512-h640/310949075_578317927472366_3890841578550044726_n.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: left;">I also had a piece in the Collections exhibtion seen alongside <a href="https://www.shelleyrhodes.co.uk/">Shelley Rhodes</a> exquisite small pieces. It is called <a href="https://youtu.be/U2m3yDFYAj0">Emakimono and you can hear more about it here.</a></div></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and caught up with book signing on the <a href="https://www.batsfordbooks.com/contributor/cas-holmes-2/">Batsford stand.</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwvoGM0im85QSfne4uf9B2DgFRwErmQc6jldcSH-7YggdyvJPc-XovqOLaRo8hK4HVlOBH6XWqYLckNDjPCD4c0eu4VFfpKjWdp9jqD8LIJva_jjE3JnSzHGtnmQJ09GhRmz-dJ2th8znYAcA1GEwT_NJHTY9cP1eC6S0rby9Ov5an4Zofb_wtqyhE/s1800/310425097_503655351770976_5140479194139334193_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwvoGM0im85QSfne4uf9B2DgFRwErmQc6jldcSH-7YggdyvJPc-XovqOLaRo8hK4HVlOBH6XWqYLckNDjPCD4c0eu4VFfpKjWdp9jqD8LIJva_jjE3JnSzHGtnmQJ09GhRmz-dJ2th8znYAcA1GEwT_NJHTY9cP1eC6S0rby9Ov5an4Zofb_wtqyhE/w320-h400/310425097_503655351770976_5140479194139334193_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I am sure with my short stay I missed so much. It was good to be with my textile family if for a short time.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhirV7zS3AWhykGVRUFSZKyoLFXqKO_8EDmbts3w2w4pKP8wOkpP4ciP64NLGnvQulIKcIpR57AA9nQJxyZWuu4BS0u8cn8DJTGglqZHxCa0Jl_nonS3HH83w555h4ZPdHnf6y75ar3N-u6S8vVb2qTTl9_By91rh6TFTbiypvtJvs4oi5piVsDDnop/s4160/IMG_20221007_133135.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhirV7zS3AWhykGVRUFSZKyoLFXqKO_8EDmbts3w2w4pKP8wOkpP4ciP64NLGnvQulIKcIpR57AA9nQJxyZWuu4BS0u8cn8DJTGglqZHxCa0Jl_nonS3HH83w555h4ZPdHnf6y75ar3N-u6S8vVb2qTTl9_By91rh6TFTbiypvtJvs4oi5piVsDDnop/w640-h480/IMG_20221007_133135.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-34998250924156338632022-09-28T13:22:00.004+01:002022-10-11T11:41:01.126+01:00London and Sweet September<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTY-I1JuqpeQkhGPHuH6Oi9eYI-MeyoPFPu6fua6P_Qec-uCLk6Z66TWQopFqN2aqTPix3i-ABYXxN-IHJIvAqp8-6y-acrRkBcPGOGjL_4Bk5SyMQQjiQgVwsJum8zHWIU0tqGqRB9e9zlrquqhCW4Hvav4o0i8IAgMSB5I3G_D5vTojkXGiwAY-T/s4160/IMG_20220922_154915.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTY-I1JuqpeQkhGPHuH6Oi9eYI-MeyoPFPu6fua6P_Qec-uCLk6Z66TWQopFqN2aqTPix3i-ABYXxN-IHJIvAqp8-6y-acrRkBcPGOGjL_4Bk5SyMQQjiQgVwsJum8zHWIU0tqGqRB9e9zlrquqhCW4Hvav4o0i8IAgMSB5I3G_D5vTojkXGiwAY-T/w480-h640/IMG_20220922_154915.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Last week was a chance to get out and about for a while whilst Derek was attending the Upper Limb programme at UCLH. I spend most of the time walking and drawing. Sadly however, sweet September proved to have another surprise in store for us. Derek had a fall over the weekend and is now recovering from hip surgery. He is positive and was continuing his arm exercises on his bed.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This time last week, I was in the Mall which was certainly a lot emptier than the previous week.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0lQqk7lz70KrahGADjuxngoF_lY2OzoXaRWXyw6eZNwdX95waPVWLPX_veF3KivAmEoxw8gdRIcJahp50O2-dOPVmldip0BJlWltpmED-wvBF2urRbOcUNA4_KfOwniXkmpFbjAPPXlHBYpvdG03Q6wTmaZWkcFAReq2hvu3Dmodhcauw_T4IWLHf/s4160/IMG_20220921_100206.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0lQqk7lz70KrahGADjuxngoF_lY2OzoXaRWXyw6eZNwdX95waPVWLPX_veF3KivAmEoxw8gdRIcJahp50O2-dOPVmldip0BJlWltpmED-wvBF2urRbOcUNA4_KfOwniXkmpFbjAPPXlHBYpvdG03Q6wTmaZWkcFAReq2hvu3Dmodhcauw_T4IWLHf/w640-h480/IMG_20220921_100206.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">I enjoyed a walk around <a href="https://www.frieze.com/article/open-now-frieze-sculpture-2022">Regents Park and the Frieze Sculpture 2022 </a>curated by Clare Lilley (Yorkshire Sculpture Park Director) for the tenth consecutive year</span></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>I, as my dad would have said, 'walked for Britain'. </span></span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_R-pM0lFmnlXwylGG4JIrNQ3X-sK7c2E6rt3j1WXTLnkvPgZMt-_KRmGfxLim_B2483NXgyoUI_fCEpz4DTsC2XtNb73G6rMvyLrUtoeEURCQrzg-lexef0Wqu08lTroLFAUqiHderZYC9lGkNRCs2ujOnyE803MIUrMSE0Gqwj5OwJ1mkZbq3Hup/s4160/IMG_20220922_153056.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_R-pM0lFmnlXwylGG4JIrNQ3X-sK7c2E6rt3j1WXTLnkvPgZMt-_KRmGfxLim_B2483NXgyoUI_fCEpz4DTsC2XtNb73G6rMvyLrUtoeEURCQrzg-lexef0Wqu08lTroLFAUqiHderZYC9lGkNRCs2ujOnyE803MIUrMSE0Gqwj5OwJ1mkZbq3Hup/w640-h480/IMG_20220922_153056.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And will save my 'London Sketchbook' for my next visit.</span></span></div>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810088873088869652.post-54962400948270665782022-09-05T15:43:00.004+01:002022-09-05T15:43:53.137+01:00Marking the Positive: Life Goes On<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I was so pleased to be marking the publication of<a href="https://casholmes.wordpress.com/shop/"> Embroidering the Everyday</a>, for <a href="https://www.batsfordbooks.com/contributor/cas-holmes-2/">Batsford books</a> this time last year little knowing life at home was about to change. My life partner Derek had a massive stroke. We have worked on his recovering as much mobility as he can and I have needed to learn how to adapt my creative practice</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">. I finally feel able to celebrate the books publication</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLUfD_AX3Fkz4ONp-JJvMKraqKZHj3NZ86X8ePExNVYTgkaEOzwZy9t7f9S-f-DmM8h7xcoGmuVAgNrOPd83kkRTprqs6absW8RGaC5NjTFGsmF0XEq7NgZmDxfXGQoEyAdE7Dat-K5HXL1xsjtfYvM4Ibc4Rpf2LdC7LN4d29r3oWZmbi_qPoBp4m/s1375/Emb%20everyday%20cover%201%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="841" data-original-width="1375" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLUfD_AX3Fkz4ONp-JJvMKraqKZHj3NZ86X8ePExNVYTgkaEOzwZy9t7f9S-f-DmM8h7xcoGmuVAgNrOPd83kkRTprqs6absW8RGaC5NjTFGsmF0XEq7NgZmDxfXGQoEyAdE7Dat-K5HXL1xsjtfYvM4Ibc4Rpf2LdC7LN4d29r3oWZmbi_qPoBp4m/w640-h392/Emb%20everyday%20cover%201%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><p><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Support from good friends, the brilliant NHS and professional colleagues, means a year on we are in a better place despite the struggles.</span></span></p><p><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">I recorded the things of change as I worked in the garden. The secateurs were the first things I saw on the table left there from Derek's pruning just the day before rushed to hospital.</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This formed the first of the stitching I was able to do in short spaces of time as I did undertake many tasks I had not needed to do before. The small pockets of creative time proved so necessary for my for my own well being</span></p><p><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWxvVqGFoI8_WLYXE74HbstHbO0DFd3xWkONGYJjfKnsTScIKxTSwpLVOLTgusaarRmoMBDUQHJeBvjvBBKu74WmN8agad264PdYYOIh5t-ha9j4m6zlmKIu1osAuCQDtVH_Gj71FcbUoDrPr2MdK_F66sPcsOcxkpmIhzOnIS61oUHXF2Qmz6OFGh/s5184/IMG_1099.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWxvVqGFoI8_WLYXE74HbstHbO0DFd3xWkONGYJjfKnsTScIKxTSwpLVOLTgusaarRmoMBDUQHJeBvjvBBKu74WmN8agad264PdYYOIh5t-ha9j4m6zlmKIu1osAuCQDtVH_Gj71FcbUoDrPr2MdK_F66sPcsOcxkpmIhzOnIS61oUHXF2Qmz6OFGh/w640-h426/IMG_1099.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">One of those tasks, working in the garden became a 'comfort' as I continued the Autumn work he had begun. As we progressed through winter, I felt able to focus a little more in the evenings and stitched pieces onto cloth which finally came together as 'Derek's Garden</span><span style="font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">.</span></span></span></p><p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMklOcJhL8VZv96NHEsLK1KKOxpPBAddYcXmDZXanFcRxvW97oBfvvp9FBnXiDWKR-aj6wqYPQY7DeRDPQcGbNAwNxo299UM47VaXS_I8xc_Xcb4tFDRc9k3yZ6n5pR5SBP_vhoNVMyHINoBHIu_r9RhwbRUALZ6f6lB9Bufj0OQjC-Zb6lcrATm-W/s5184/IMG_1096.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMklOcJhL8VZv96NHEsLK1KKOxpPBAddYcXmDZXanFcRxvW97oBfvvp9FBnXiDWKR-aj6wqYPQY7DeRDPQcGbNAwNxo299UM47VaXS_I8xc_Xcb4tFDRc9k3yZ6n5pR5SBP_vhoNVMyHINoBHIu_r9RhwbRUALZ6f6lB9Bufj0OQjC-Zb6lcrATm-W/w640-h426/IMG_1096.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLCoUjC3eVezOPesTBUBWc3wz4rSU61MsDMrBIDavY8GCkG9UaEBXDEH--eCQzTT3QE4JVuzhOKyXDH6r0jQwVh1qpCDAiz2rvFfOn2HaLPnSWvLx8H-oFQ0ojO6iD37Am0FtQVjRDsgqtTGOaFPK5cguaoiIz8YLWYhXKsCozZqg0h5TPtmIFCLu8/s5184/Dereks%20Garden%20Detail%20(7).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLCoUjC3eVezOPesTBUBWc3wz4rSU61MsDMrBIDavY8GCkG9UaEBXDEH--eCQzTT3QE4JVuzhOKyXDH6r0jQwVh1qpCDAiz2rvFfOn2HaLPnSWvLx8H-oFQ0ojO6iD37Am0FtQVjRDsgqtTGOaFPK5cguaoiIz8YLWYhXKsCozZqg0h5TPtmIFCLu8/w640-h426/Dereks%20Garden%20Detail%20(7).JPG" width="640" /></a></div></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCgXfaWg5PzPNwH8wy8OwBobejBrFqk8r9r2nnEkBkjmlbTr9XmvvNLVlcIML-J_0e-rPBnOHp48zFZUg-fqJFdouxhGU5k29yOY4jsgMd7IAcwq_VYLi1vQkdlOIUUJfYUyfy1Rh-ipeFVf98RXqnXMcXX_TlDYqSrYhs9pyrgsQePLR1cPmlk6Fy/s640/IMG_1218%20(3).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="444" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCgXfaWg5PzPNwH8wy8OwBobejBrFqk8r9r2nnEkBkjmlbTr9XmvvNLVlcIML-J_0e-rPBnOHp48zFZUg-fqJFdouxhGU5k29yOY4jsgMd7IAcwq_VYLi1vQkdlOIUUJfYUyfy1Rh-ipeFVf98RXqnXMcXX_TlDYqSrYhs9pyrgsQePLR1cPmlk6Fy/w445-h640/IMG_1218%20(3).JPG" width="445" /></a></span></span></div><p></p></span><span style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><span style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #303030; font-family: "PT Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;">For those unable to see the tour Gypsy Maker 4 in Wales in 2020 some of the pieces were shown at the<a href="https://www.thefestivalofquilts.co.uk/future-dates/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; max-width: unset; text-decoration-line: none;"><b> </b>Festival of Quilts </a>in 2021 as part of the exhibition <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder; max-width: unset;">‘Found’</span> with <a href="https://www.arttextilesmadeinbritain.co.uk/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; max-width: unset;">Art Textiles Made in Britain</a>. The next venue is at the <a href="https://www.forgemill.org.uk/web/exhibitions/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; max-width: unset;">Forge Mill Needles Museum, </a>16th September -30th October.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh48Ec6TYjFe8BygWd-DEdgv5KnnytFnwJWgWSPDKbi8wjAQNkRDrqJsxEtsTZgzkttPFSVtb2VSmLxLNtq3wIfqUbHyrIOSd1al8IIwb-1Kt3c9ofcK6Fo50Fz4ICBvAWVr_qaopX75C4KNUwC-LJCV-oURF54DNNun8Vu2Oc39cz4glZJXbcCtUQU/s1080/thumbnail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh48Ec6TYjFe8BygWd-DEdgv5KnnytFnwJWgWSPDKbi8wjAQNkRDrqJsxEtsTZgzkttPFSVtb2VSmLxLNtq3wIfqUbHyrIOSd1al8IIwb-1Kt3c9ofcK6Fo50Fz4ICBvAWVr_qaopX75C4KNUwC-LJCV-oURF54DNNun8Vu2Oc39cz4glZJXbcCtUQU/w640-h640/thumbnail.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></span></div></span><p></p><p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #444444; font-family: arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Working patterns have changed, as have the things we value</span></p><p><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">Creativity in adversity is possible</span><span style="color: #050505;">. </span></span></span></p>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0