Cas Holmes

She collects material like cast-off textiles, found or gifted, worn or used objects like garments for her artwork. Her work shows another experimental approach to mixed media textiles used as painting, image or design for a book.

She’s one of the UK’s best-known textile artists according to TextileArtist.org

‚With her rich use of colour, stitch and mixed media, textile artist Cas Holmes exploits the tactile nature of textiles to turn traditional approaches to landscape on its head. Cas guides you through every stage of the creative process, building unique and beautiful works of art through observation and gathering material, experimenting in stitch, collage, screen printing and appliqué, and presenting small pieces and huge installations alike with their own sense of space, time and location.Her fascinating exploration of our relationship with our environment – and the effect of the local landscape on our own memories and imagination. Textile Landscape spans the UK, Europe, USA and Australia, including her own personal, local pieces and travel diaries as well as work from international artists‚, is written about Holmes‘ book ‚ Textile Landscape on her page, http://casholmes.blogspot.com/.