tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9621905038632590672024-03-05T01:09:26.737-08:00magpie of the mind-cas holmesartist and author at casholmestextiles.co.ukCas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962190503863259067.post-85688756858691869122016-11-27T06:50:00.002-08:002016-11-27T07:12:05.628-08:00Winter Blues..Pruning Back<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Winter is fast upon us, yet beauty can still be found in the wonderful changing skies as the light filters through the trees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">I am planning projects through to 2018 yet, as with the burgeoning garden I also need to 'prune back' on some things. Journal updates on this Magpie blog will be cut back. Regular updates on work, inspiration and general news will still continue on my main <a href="http://casholmes.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">blog</a></span><span style="color: #444444;"> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/casholmestextiles/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </span><span style="color: #444444;">page</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have always loved the views of the trees through my window as they change through the season. I have woken up to them for over thirty five years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Love the </span><a href="https://youtu.be/27CKhzC_viA" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">starlings</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> when they come to visit the trees.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial";">So now I am experimenting we ways of interpreting the trees as I see everyday.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the early part of the Autumn I spent a few days in France working with a school and found this amazing car in my hosts garden which is slowly decaying with time. Love the reflections in the window and the hint that Autumn has begun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A short trip to Norfolk last week was a timely reminder that the year is moving on and the landscape is turning to russets, gold and browns as the landscape loses its 'sheen' and decays into mellower tones. I was in Kings Lyn working at <a href="https://eaubrinkstudio.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Eaubrink Studios</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fabulous to just spend a little time surveying the flat lands of my home county. The low lying light across the fields as I wound my way home on the train on Monday. (just how low lying..Eau for water)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial";">Being in a church is a reoccurring theme. I was delighted to be included in an exhibition 'In the Footsteps of Pilgrims' organised by fellow artist <a href="https://rosiejamestextileartist.wordpress.com/about/" target="_blank">Rosie James</a> at <a href="https://rosiejamestextileartist.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/welcome/" target="_blank">St. Mary's Church Wouldham</a>. 17 artists made work in response to the location.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial";">A glimpse below of some of the pieces below demonstrates how effectively work can respond to different spaces with clever use of existing fixtures and pews. This interaction between church and artwork with considered curation created an atmospheric environment outside the formality of gallery walls.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial";">This <a href="https://www.facebook.com/stmarysburham/?pnref=story" target="_blank">link </a>takes you to the Friends of St Mary's facebook page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;">It is these influences that have come to play in more recent work which was recently on show for Concealed with <a href="http://www.arttextilesmadeinbritain.co.uk/group-exhibitions.html" target="_blank">Art Textiles Made in Britain </a>at the Festival of Quilts.(the link show works by all members)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;">Unfolding Landscapes, Cas Holmes looking at what is revealed and concealed at the edges of our paths and roadways throughout the seasons. This work was shown along<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">side <a href="https://rosiejamestextileartist.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Rosie James </a>pieces<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in simple stark con<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">trast <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">looks at Pylons at the power beh<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ind our indus<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">try in cloth<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"> As Autumn enters I am developing new pieces for exhibition in Europe next year. These continue the look at where private and public spaces meets. More about this later meanwhile, you can check out <a href="http://casholmes.blogspot.co.uk/p/exhibitions-and-events.html" target="_blank">current exhibitions</a> on my blog including exhibitions in October in Kent at the Kent Wildlife Trust, <a href="http://www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/sites/default/files/kwt_events_layout_1.pdf" target="_blank">Tyland Barn</a>, a small exhibition and book signing with <a href="http://batsford.com/blog/stitch-stories/" target="_blank">Batsford </a>in their London bookshop and work at the Knitting and Stitching Shows with the <a href="https://embroiderersguild.com/index.php?page_no=278&page_menu=capability-brown-festival" target="_blank">Embroiderer's Guild Capability Brown </a>exhibition.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;">Withdrawing into the shade and view the neighbourhood through the shadows they cast on our windows</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;">Finally but not least, this blog is named after after a chapter in my first book,<a href="http://batsford.com/blog/the-found-object-in-textile-art/" target="_blank"> The Found Object in Textile Art 2010.</a> It is being reprinted for the fourth time as we speak.</span></span></span><br />
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<br />Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962190503863259067.post-42467945116340819632016-06-23T08:54:00.000-07:002016-06-27T02:24:52.796-07:00Making a Point:Needle Museum Redditch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A brief visit to the <a href="http://www.forgemill.org.uk/forgemill.htm">Forge Mill Needle Museum</a>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Machine Needles..some <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a</span>re huge.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beautiful displayed hand embroidery needles</span></span></span></div>
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interviewing Cas Holmes this month she gave some useful advice to
approach things differently. "Before they even start I encourage
students to think about the material they are starting with. Mess
up the fabric or look beyond the sanctity of edges,' she explains</i></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Sh<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">orelines, Cas Holmes (3 of 6 panels) <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Photogra<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">phy credit <a href="http://www.vycombe-arts.co.uk/" target="_blank">Art Van Go</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I also had the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">opportunity</span> to take in the Mac and the am<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">azing work of<a href="https://macbirmingham.co.uk/exhibition/shock-and-awe" target="_blank"> Barbara Walker,</a> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">well very nearly. It was a Monday, the Mac was open<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, the gallery closed and I felt like a child l<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ooking th<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rough the sweetie shop window! </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the closing day of the exhibition, 3rd July, join Barbara Walker as she removes this and other drawings from the walls: <i> washing away the
charcoal and exploring further the notions of visibility and erasure in
the work.</i></span></span>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><i><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Acknowledging an absence of representation over the past 100 years,
Walker’s exhibition concentrates upon the contribution of Black
servicemen and women to the British Armed Forces and war efforts from
1914 to the present day. It reflects upon contemporary British conflict
alongside historical events of warfare involving Britain and the
colonised nations of the British Empire. As the world commemorates the
centenary of World War I, this remarkable body of work addresses the
stories that remain largely untold.
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">discovered the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">community</span> project<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://macbirmingham.co.uk/exhibition/connecting-spaces" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">C</span>onnecting <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">S</span>paces</a> st<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ill on (advertised to finish in April). </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Connecting Spaces is borne out of a passion to engage residents from the
Hall Green district (encompassing Sparkbrook, Springfield, Moseley and
Kings Heath, and Hall Green) in arts activities locally and at mac.
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(With thanks to the <a href="https://macbirmingham.co.uk/exhibition/shock-and-awe" target="_blank">Mac</a> for the text refe<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rences.)</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My grandmother, a Romany would have been familiar with the pegs and peg dolls. Love the dive<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rsity ref<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">le</span>cting the the comm<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">unities and cultures who <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">dressed their doll<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s for a 'C<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">inderella Day'</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962190503863259067.post-42081100006234381092016-05-28T08:08:00.000-07:002016-05-28T08:32:00.073-07:00The Nature of Image and 7th Quilt Festival Luxembourg<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Early in May I <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in</span> Luxembourg wh<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ere I was guest artist at the</span></span></span> <a href="http://www.quiltfestival.lu/lu/ausstellungen" target="_blank">7 International Quilt Festival </a>(more on this later)</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. I </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="color: #444444;"><span class="_58cl"></span></span></a></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">stayed in <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span class="_58cl"></span></a><a href="http://www.clervauximage.lu/" target="_blank"><span class="_58cm">Clervaux</span></a> which had an annual exhibition of phot<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">o<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">graphs</span></span> <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span class="_58cl"></span></a>. <a href="http://www.clervauximage.lu/" target="_blank">Clervaux - cité de l' image </a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We sometimes take image for granted. It is so easy just to take a 'snap' in these digital days. This stunning exhibition set beautifully in the landscape of the small town demanded attention raising the questions on how we record the world around us, the 'nature' of that world and our place in it.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">The view of Clervaux Castle has been a constant companion.I slept at night with it as my nightlight through the window. This is where
the Battle of the Bulge was fought 16 Dec 1944. The castle has been
rebuilt after the town was reduced to rubble</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The festival itself took place over several villages in the region. Details of some of the works in Centre Communal, Wilwerwiltz, <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/wilwerwitz?source=feed_text&story_id=1150905468276562"><span class="_58cl"></span></a>taken at end of set up.Works below by by <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/casholmes?source=feed_text&story_id=1150905468276562"><span class="_58cl"></span></a> <span class="_58cl"></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span class="_58cm">fellow artists sharing the space.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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had little time to see other works here a few of works further afield.I
managed a brief walk to the neighbouring village Enshaerange and caught
these pieces in the local fire station by the Norwegian group 'Sting'.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"> and Grenzenlo(o)s Dutch Ger<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">man </span>collaboration in <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the </span>historic flour mill:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">All for now, I am taking time to<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>work on new pieces for <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Co<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cealed' the </span></span></span>forthcoming exhibition with <a href="http://www.arttextilesmadeinbritain.co.uk/" target="_blank">Art Textiles Made in Britain </a>at<a href="http://www.thefestivalofquilts.co.uk/galleries" target="_blank"> Festival of Quilts </a>this Summer.I also have wo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rk in the</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>6th European Quilt Triennial at the show.</span></span></span><br />
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Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962190503863259067.post-84615597855969402182016-04-15T21:19:00.000-07:002016-04-21T09:31:51.498-07:00South West Wandering, California Dreaming<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I come to my last few days in California preparing to return home I am equally saddened to wave goodbye to good friends. I complete my trip with an exhibition 'Stitch Stories at <a href="http://www.visionsartmuseum.org/" target="_blank">Visions Art Museum.</a>( Sneak image preview below.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;">I also went for a walk around the neighbourhood where I have been staying. The majestic Palo Verde are in bloom. They provide wonderful shelter in the washes (arroro) which take the run offs of rain water during the rainy season (usually August)<br />Although very hot for my more sensitive English skin, I arrived during a relative school spell. I was able to take in exhibitions at the <a href="http://www.tucsonmuseumofart.org/" target="_blank">Tucson Museum of Art</a>. I loved Ellen Wagener's Big Skies/Hidden Stories. Beautiful majestic landscapes in pastel.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444;">And this painting of three girls by Mary Wyant.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRr6vy862viuXwiqJoH4NGpOQ6YT5_0OE-YH0LLzEObdxFaJIRcZeZZ73K7oz_lGohC6KQD4OuNd0LfSCXunWIPfWrrK8NoTcUHW70TsSBtOpQ-U0VAj96c56AeHd-C8lizPheAMnj_X0/s1600/IMG_6480.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRr6vy862viuXwiqJoH4NGpOQ6YT5_0OE-YH0LLzEObdxFaJIRcZeZZ73K7oz_lGohC6KQD4OuNd0LfSCXunWIPfWrrK8NoTcUHW70TsSBtOpQ-U0VAj96c56AeHd-C8lizPheAMnj_X0/s400/IMG_6480.jpg" width="400" /></span></a><span style="color: #444444;">There was also a Textile exhibit, String Theory:Contemporary Ary and the Fiber Legacy which I would urge anyone in the vicinity to see. On until June 19.</span><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;">Sedona always remains a special place for me . I was delighted to return and spend time with friends. I was also delighted to work with the Sedona Arts Center over the Easter weekend.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-weight: normal;">Paula Clarke</span> </h2>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-weight: normal;">Suzette Young</span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444;">Lorie Garver</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444;">Kathy Przkopp</span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-weight: normal;">CC Landauer</span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;">Ann Crossland</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444;">Irene Peake</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;">I am looking forward to my exhibition opening of Stitch<br /> Stories and book signing at <a href="http://www.visionsartmuseum.org/" target="_blank">Visions Art Museum</a> on 16 April. Pop in to see it if you can. I will be at the Open Event from 5-7pm. There will also be the opportunity to see work by Gay Lasher, Edie Greenberg and The Jury is In and Visions Members challenge Geometric. I will also be giving a talk on my work on Friday 8 April as well as running workshops with San Diego Book Arts and 'Sense of Place'. Full details on this <a href="http://casholmes.blogspot.com/p/workshops-and-education.html" target="_blank">link</a></span></span></h2>
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Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962190503863259067.post-90911636714780133222016-03-13T08:33:00.000-07:002016-03-27T06:41:06.778-07:00On the Edges of Things<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is as I prepare for trip to the<a href="http://www.casholmes.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/telling-stories.html" target="_blank"> USA</a> I realise it is precisely 6 months since my return from Australia Often, when I travel as much as I am involved I often feel on the 'Edges of Things' and leave friendships and experiences behind. Yet, many of these experiences are interaction with the world are shared with others. </span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://magpieofthemind.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/edges-of-australiawildflowers-wild.html" target="_blank"></a><br /></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whilst
in Australia, I worked on drawings and gathered pieces of fabric from
my friends to make physical some of the experiences and the
conversations I had about life and everything. I called this piece 'The
Edges of Australia' and unrolled it is around 4 metres in length. It
brings back Tea in<a href="http://magpieofthemind.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/the-edges-of-australia-ice-cold-in.html" target="_blank"> Tasmania </a>to ward off the cold, The wonderful early mornings in<a href="http://magpieofthemind.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/the-edges-of-australia-stitching-in.html" target="_blank"> Queensland </a>and misty views. The incredible Loy Yang power station in <a href="http://magpieofthemind.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/edges-of-australia-power-in-victoria.html" target="_blank">Traralgon </a></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which had a strange beauty all of their own and the birds visiting the empty bird cages in my an eccentric garden in <a href="http://magpieofthemind.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/edges-of-australiawildflowers-wild.html" target="_blank">Perth</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"> (I am looking to return in 2018</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"> if I can manage it).</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;">Appearing in the exhibition (and in the detail above) is Memory Cloth #12, Numbers Lost, by<a href="http://glenysmann.jigsy.com/" target="_blank"> Glenys Mann</a>, marking the loss of life in the Australian bush fires of 2009</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i>My work is inspired by emotions of the environment, the world events and emotions of everyday lif</i>e Glenys Mann</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCFEMlGNhETK5RETCqzgL63zOX_CoqObcSOJL0QAYmxTMLczywbDCSGN_PXIsrb-XAhDlAEbyakbtlBGEhWXuvRAs8oIrYNu8vdlR0hV3nx_5LCWvOzUKdXdLplPxiZrTeZfIEidz9d4M/s1600/Sally+Chinea+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCFEMlGNhETK5RETCqzgL63zOX_CoqObcSOJL0QAYmxTMLczywbDCSGN_PXIsrb-XAhDlAEbyakbtlBGEhWXuvRAs8oIrYNu8vdlR0hV3nx_5LCWvOzUKdXdLplPxiZrTeZfIEidz9d4M/s320/Sally+Chinea+2.jpg" width="226" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Often this 'emotion of the everyday' is that feeling of being 'on the edge' and not being able to 'control' things which you care about you but are simply not in your control to change. Dealing with illness and change equally makes us feel we have no control. We all have close family members and friends who are being lost to us..I am no exception. In her work for the shortly to be opened<a href="http://www.canterbury.co.uk/Beaney/whats_on/Exhibitions.aspx" target="_blank"> Prescription</a>s at the Beaney Gallery</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="_5yl5">Artist <a href="http://www.sallychinea.com/" target="_blank">Sally Chinea</a> talks about the loss of her friend at a young age from breast cancer:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span class="_5yl5"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><i><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span class="_5yl5"><span style="color: #444444;">The fragile textile cubes, portray life, hanging by a thread, the images show a small selection of my friend's work as well as poignant messages and moments from our friendship</span>. </span></i></span><br />
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;">The exhibition focuses on the book art of <a href="http://www.une.edu/mwwc/research/featured-writers/martha-.-hall-collection-1998-2003" target="_blank">Martha Hall,</a> on loan from
the University of New England, and linked to a <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk/english/research/conferences/artistsbooks.html" target="_blank">University of Kent </a>symposium. Hall’s books documents her experiences with breast cancer and
interactions with the medical community, and are accompanied by a
curated show of artists books responding to themes of art, empathy and
wellbeing. </span></span></span><em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;">Supported by the Wellcome Foundation.</span></span></span></em><br />
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written up for treatment of a patient using ingredients collected and sourced from the natural world around us. During the ‘Great War’ children and adults grew and collected medicinal plants and herbs </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background: White none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">from the roadside edges</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background: White none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"> and the wild places (to
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962190503863259067.post-60881792694276417842016-02-04T03:00:00.001-08:002016-02-04T03:00:30.930-08:00Marks on the Medway<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">I spent a morning revisiting my old stomping ground. I worked in the Medway towns as a Community Artist with Spiral Arts from the early eighties and this long association continues I have always drawn to the wide reaches of the river as the Medway broadens on its way to sea. The mood of the river went from a deeply grey morning to sunshine in a space of a few minutes taking these images. The tide, debris and birds making their own marks in the riverbed</span></span><br />
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edges of the river where<a href="http://www.casholmes.blogspot.co.uk/p/places-spaces-and-traces.html" target="_blank"> Nature and the Urban </a>working life of the river
meets have always held a strange fascination not surprising <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">given the rain we have had</span> and I was drawn to make a
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Artist Stephen Turner equally shares a long fascination for the Medway<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. I reme<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mber his working on can<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">vases <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">painted with Medway <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">m</span>ud (way back) when we worked together in Gillingha<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">m</span> and it still seems he <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">making m<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">arks as reported in the Mudlark Magazi<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ne..<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the</span> extract appears <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i</span>n </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="byline"><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="author" title="View all posts by Carol Donaldson">Carol Donaldson</a></span></span>' s<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://naturegirlblogdotcom.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/an-interview-with-stephen-turner-in-the-mudlark/" target="_blank">Naturegirl</a> blog. Steph<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">en</span> also spent a year</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> in the guise of 'The Beaulieu Beadle', on the <a href="http://exburyegg.me/" target="_blank">Exbury Egg</a> working on, in and around the Egg for twelve months</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also had time to take in the wond<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">erful work of </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Shelly Goldsmith,<a href="http://shellygoldsmith.com/drawn-to-ohio-at-the-rochester-gallery/" target="_blank"> 'Drawn to Ohio' </a>exhibition at <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=304928416283207&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/Rochester-Art-Gallery-Craft-Case-304928416283207/" id="js_35">Rochester Art Gallery & Craft Case</a> (until 13th Feb)</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. The marks in cloth mark<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>the fragility of our interaction with the wor<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ld around us through the clothing we wear</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the weathering of mark<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s on cloth are </span>reminiscent</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> of the sc<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ra</span>tches in the mud I had seen ea<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rlier.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. It also marks the emotional distance between the area of Nort<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">h Kent and Thanet</span> where the art<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ist lives and her connection to fa<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mily in Ohio.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">'Queen of Clouds' - reclaimed 1950's women's jacket with woven text tape above <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">left<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> an<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d abo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">v<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e-d</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">etail of </span></span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">'Inner Storm' - reclaimed wedding dress with woven text tape </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> Detail of Shorelines (this piece appears in <a href="http://www.casholmes.blogspot.co.uk/p/articles-reviews-and-print.html" target="_blank">Stitch Stories)</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (The book is currently being reprinted</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, the reprint is due at the end of February and will be available again,
thereafter from all good bookshops and online retailers)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">For people on the road, good shoes are a must. With those shoes comes their own stories. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">My old boots, worn for over 20 years reflect my times walking in the Kentish Countryside and much further afield just had to be sketched and now act as reference for drawing in my <a href="http://magpieofthemind.blogspot.co.uk/p/adult-education.html" target="_blank">Adult Education </a>class.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">My sister had her own dreams of ballet dancing as child, we all love the elegance (and maybe the tutus) These paper shoes are inscribed with the poem with 'Rings on her finger and bells on her toes' from <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176332" target="_blank">Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross, </a>Horses were equally important modes of travel for my grandmother. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Still, ballet shoes have to be well made as this short video of <a href="http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/short-film-showcase/ballet-shoes-the-craft-before-the-dance?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_fb20151211video-balletvod&utm_campaign=Content&sf16828291=1" target="_blank">Freed the Ballet Shoe</a> maker in London testifies</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">On a recent but brief visit to the British Museum I discovered a lovely little exhibition of shoes in the <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/life_and_sole.aspx" target="_blank">Life and sole:footwear from the the Islamic world</a>. Beautifully worked, with fine embroidery and leather tooling, my gran would have approved. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">The little Riversoft shoes I found brand new in a charity shop at the end of my Australian trip (to replace a pair I had worn out) could do with some of the embellishments in the ones above.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">I was very privileged to include images of work by Rosalind Wyatt from her project the <a href="http://www.rosalindwyatt.com/portfolio/stitch-lives-london" target="_blank">Stitch Lives of London </a>in 'Stitch Stories'. This includes an Edwardian Satin dancing shoes embroidered with the story of Mary Pearse, the pauper daughter of a London shoemaker.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Exhib<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">itions, the launch of<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stitch-Stories-Personal-Places-Textile/dp/1849942749/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450346897&sr=8-1&keywords=cas+holmes" target="_blank"> Stitch Stories</a> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and wor<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">k have kept me on my feet<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, from an old military building in <a href="http://casholmes.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/uncommon-spaces.html" target="_blank">France</a>, to<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> my curre<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nt<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>local<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>exhib<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ition <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Common <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">P<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lace, Common Land' </span></span></span></span>in <a href="http://casholmes.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/plantlife-and-our-common-places.html" target="_blank">Maidstone</a></span></span></span></span>. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span>n the Summer</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> worked </span>with <a href="http://www.fibrearts.jigsy.com/" target="_blank">Fibre Arts Australia</a> and extensively travelled around the 'Edges of Australia' (which you can read <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">about in earlier posts on this blog<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span>, </span>and felt a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n Australian <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">W</span>inter 'cold' for the first time complete with frost! </span></span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i>My carefree Romany childhood and our life on the open road had come to end end. However, we did not know know then that in the aftermath of the 'war to end all ward' life in Britain would be irrevocably changed. Throughout my long life </i>(my grandmother died in 1995)<i> I came to view my Romany years as an age of innocence, not just for us children, but for a nation'.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">It seems I not only inherited the love of the 'Open road' from my gran but also her ability to tell stories<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">:</span><i> </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Thankyou to all have hosted me and continued the textile fr<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">iendships in 2105. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am planning new adventures in 2016 <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which</span> will be updated on my other<a href="http://www.casholmes.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"> blog.</a> </span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">I wish you a Peaceful Christmas and Happy New Year.<span style="font-size: small;"> As you 'walk' through life, I leave you with an old Irish blessing</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">May the road rise up to meet you.<br />
May the wind always be at your back.<br />
May the sun shine warm upon your face,<br />
and rains fall soft upon your fields.<br />
And until we meet again,<br />
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"></span></span>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962190503863259067.post-29407537517926928622015-10-05T06:23:00.000-07:002015-10-05T06:24:03.370-07:00LV21 Marks on Cloth:Charting your Course<span class="yiv6934972546" id="yiv6934972546yui_3_16_0_1_1443960610618_3038" style="color: #444444;"><span class="yiv6934972546" id="yiv6934972546yui_3_16_0_1_1443960610618_3040" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv6934972546" id="yiv6934972546yui_3_16_0_1_1443960610618_3042" style="font-size: small;">Last
weekend was full of nautical surprises. I found my way back to my old
stomping ground in the Medway towns where I trained as a community
artist and was welcomed </span><span class="yiv6934972546" id="yiv6934972546yui_3_16_0_1_1443960610618_3044" style="font-size: small;">aboard<a class="yiv6934972546" href="http://www.lv21.co.uk/lv21-a-stitch-story/" id="yiv6934972546yui_3_16_0_1_1443960610618_3046" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"> LV21</a> to celebrate the publication of <a href="http://www.casholmes.blogspot.co.uk/p/articles-reviews-and-print.html" target="_blank">Stitch Stories</a> </span><span class="yiv6934972546" id="yiv6934972546yui_3_16_0_1_1443960610618_3048" style="font-size: small;">as part of the <a class="yiv6934972546" href="http://www.lv21.co.uk/event/marks-on-cloth-stitch-stories/" id="yiv6934972546yui_3_16_0_1_1443960610618_3050" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">Fun Palaces</a> weekend. A misty day soon gave way to wonderful Autumn sunshine. </span></span></span><br />
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installation as a visual record of the experiences aboard the
ship. We started by exploring the ship’s surroundings and the different textures
and features on board, then transferred our findings onto cloth samplers,
learning about different stitching techniques and blending these with
traditional nautical communication methods, such as Morse code,
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the colours to those featured on the ship, red, cream and black and
using sailcloth as a base gave a continuity to the new signs and signals
being marked on the cloth with drawing and stitch. </span></span></span></div>
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board were also some of the artists featured in the book including
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/JollyNiceCreations" target="_blank">Sheilagh Dyson</a> (who also provided some of the images on this blog), <a href="http://www.nicolaflower.co.uk/" target="_blank">Nicola Flower </a>and the ship's captain, Paivi Seppala who
all have a strong connection with the Medway.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Sheilagh Dyson, Sandling Ghosts</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Nicola Flower, Purses form the River Medway</span></span></td></tr>
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one of the valiant little ships which ferried people across from Dunkirk,
and an old Sailing Barge 'Cambria' with its lovely red cloth canvas. Medway indeed
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am back in the UK adjusting to the time and place The last leg of the journey in Western Australia staying with a friend in
Perth gave me some free time before returning to the UK</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. Her amazing garden is hung with all kinds of collected objects from bird cages to skulls collected from the bush.</span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS3o-uBssPmdr2RnUiBmaGoJKyOl-3kZWzcpIP6dyV0iubDO17-zbjgxnvhNGQtigzOsonF8Cf84kEaGoCVqEe6-1LPruWy-p8Dh3_vfBDVwOObttHgqFLI00JRYzfiA1zNsYsnvBMfMk/s1600/IMG_20150903_092339.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS3o-uBssPmdr2RnUiBmaGoJKyOl-3kZWzcpIP6dyV0iubDO17-zbjgxnvhNGQtigzOsonF8Cf84kEaGoCVqEe6-1LPruWy-p8Dh3_vfBDVwOObttHgqFLI00JRYzfiA1zNsYsnvBMfMk/s640/IMG_20150903_092339.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht9Nw6eX_8TfyUU_zAsHYQxLRHLuKnfixHXmvqi2kWSRNX62xh6eW8pRqW8YHYF3fQEG__JBGa3ltSPk-zmAHRC1vCHeO-3znbIM_w_78HwZXOZF6NPRALcDWZg7qtq55e5qS4B63KX-4/s1600/IMG_20150903_092147-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht9Nw6eX_8TfyUU_zAsHYQxLRHLuKnfixHXmvqi2kWSRNX62xh6eW8pRqW8YHYF3fQEG__JBGa3ltSPk-zmAHRC1vCHeO-3znbIM_w_78HwZXOZF6NPRALcDWZg7qtq55e5qS4B63KX-4/s640/IMG_20150903_092147-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Only a week ago I was walking around small,
intimate reserves in the suburbs allowed time to explore wildflowers
growing in the warming Spring weather. (would be good summer
temperatures in the UK). Reserves can be a track of land beside a road
or much larger pieces of land where development is not allowed.</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"> And then the big days out to see the wonderful <a href="http://www.australiascoralcoast.com/destinations/cervantes-jurien-bay-region/the-pinnacles-and-nambung-national-park" target="_blank"> Pinnacles</a> country</span></span><span style="color: #444444;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">at Nambung National Park</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>to see the Pinnacles in the desert </span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">and the <a href="http://www.visitpinnaclescountry.com.au/pages/lake-thetis-and-stromatolites/" target="_blank">Stramatolites</a> at Lake Thetis in Cervantes. These are the billions of years old bacteria famously talked about by <span style="color: #444444;">Dr Brian Cox in his programme for the BBC in the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0276pxp" target="_blank">Human Universe.</a></span></span></span><br />
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I had a brief visit and found this compelling image appeared in a small sample for demonstration. I am keeping a selection of these small pieces as a recording of my visit around the 'Edges of Australia ' In Melbourne I was able to visit one of my favourite Australian artist John Wolesely in his exhibition Heartlands and Headwaters at the National Gallery. His Heron at Loy Yang reflects his love of the land and its complexity. <a href="http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/" target="_blank">National Gallery of Victoria </a><br />
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I loved my quiet journey on the train in typical winter weather. I had time to reflect and prepare for the next stage my trip. The colours were reflected in the print colours at the Tralorgan workshop.<br />
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The sketches below from Opendrawer below made a good start to a project investigating cloth.Tcloth.Thankyou to Glenys Mann at Tralorgan and the workshop team at Opendrawer or all their help on this stage. <br />
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Ice cold in Hobart when I arrived but the welcome was very warm. It was not all work. I had time to go and see the Art Gallery at <a href="https://www.mona.net.au/" target="_blank">MONA</a>. Taking the ferry complete with cows and sheep.</div>
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Set underground for the most part the gallery with Old and New Art was eerily strange and at times very disturbing. The White Library a room of blank books, and Maso Okabe's and Chihiro Minato's installation of rubbings from railway sleepers from Hiroshima were haunting. A visit of surprises and challenge. I am giving nothing more away. </div>
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I was delighted to be back with Stitching and Beyond. They were featured in an article by <a href="http://artwearpublications.com.au/subscriptions/textile-fibre-forum-magazine.html" target="_blank">Textile Fibre Forum</a> looking at the success of the group in providing valuable textile focus in the Tasmania scene. <br />
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Some of the work in progress on the 'hbook Development' workshop and 'From the Land' is shown below. Thankyou to the participants for allowing me to share their work.<br />
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Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962190503863259067.post-12634996620516758152015-08-05T03:36:00.000-07:002015-08-08T05:05:47.589-07:00The Edges of Australia. A Road Well Travelled<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have just had a few days in Sydney working with <a href="http://www.atasda.org.au/nsw.htm" target="_blank">ATASDA</a>. New South Wales </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I stayed in Frenchs Forest area overlooking Sydney and the coast in the distance.</span><br />
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<br />Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962190503863259067.post-8524774802279712542015-07-29T01:44:00.001-07:002015-07-29T01:44:18.704-07:00The Edges of Australia, Stitching in Queensland<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A week in Australia on the wonderful Queensland coast. I worked and played, including a motorbike ride along the coast near Rockhampton and some fabulous landscape. A chance to catch up with old friends and new. Great to meet with a former colleague from the UK in the days we both worked for Spiral Arts as community artists </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">The journey started with a brief stopover in Singapore where I was able to see the amazing <a href="https://youtu.be/PvKXe4P7AcE" target="_blank">Garden in the Park</a> lightshow.</span><br />
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I went to see Peta Lloyds wonderful Crocodile Series exhibition at the <span id="goog_434336530"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Rockhampton Art Gallery.. <span id="goog_434336531"></span></a>You can find out more about her work in <a href="http://conversations.jigsy.com/peta-lloyd" target="_blank">Conversations with the Makers</a> by Glenys Mann of <a href="http://fibrearts.jigsy.com/" target="_blank">Fibre Arts Australia</a></div>
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The workshop hosted by the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Capricornia.Printmakers" target="_blank">Capricornia Printmakers</a> was a wonderful warm welcome to Australia. It was great to work in the studio and stitch our by the Fraser river in 'Winter</div>
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Peta and I had a studio day and made a drawings of cups and played with collages</div>
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I am equally delighted to have her work included in <a href="http://casholmes.blogspot.com.au/p/articles-reviews-and-print.html" target="_blank">Stitch Stories</a> which is out on 6th August . Here she is looking at the advance copy.</div>
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<br />Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962190503863259067.post-55856302037691718672015-06-14T05:38:00.000-07:002015-06-15T01:56:13.008-07:00Flaming June and memories of the Lot Valley<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A little over a week ago I was over in France in blazing sunshine delivering workshops for <a href="http://www.studiopreniac.com/" target="_blank">Studio Preniac.</a> It all seem so far away now in both time and warmth.<a href="http://www.tourisme-lot.com/en" target="_blank">The Lot </a>Valley lying a little to the south
of the Dordogne is an inviting landscape of rolling
hills and valleys, picturesque villages and towns.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Safely tucked away in my attic bedroom after a wonderful supper by our generous hosts Billy and Liz. I awoke early to the gradual change of the morning from dawn blue blush which I tried to capture in my first captured sketch between workshops. This set me for a week of exploration<span style="font-size: small;"> of Shadows, Layer and Line in Cloth beginning with a sketching session in the nearby village of <a href="http://www.tourisme-montcuq.com/gb/home.html" target="_blank">Montuq</a> for the Sunday market. Carrying our sketchbooks to snatch studies as we walked and bought materials for use in the workshop.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We also had a chance to see the hidden gardens of <a href="http://www.tourisme-lot.com/en/646/pages/d/0/cahors" target="_blank">Cahors</a> and visit the nearby town of </span><a href="http://Saint Antonin Noble Val " target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">Saint Antonin Noble Val</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> before flying back last week </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Hidden courtyard in Noble Val<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">France had not quite left me, in the same week, my advance copy of the <a href="http://casholmes.blogspot.com/p/articles-reviews-and-print.html" target="_blank">'Stitch Stories' </a>arrived brightening up a grey morning and a little bit of this lovely place is recorded in the book in the work of Ros Woodhead (above)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thankyou Bill from Studio Preniac for the additional images and to all the workshop participants for permission to use photographs</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finally, breaking news, I am to be one of eight artists featured in the next issue of the wonderful John Hopper's<a href="http://thetextileblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/artists-to-be-featured-in-issue-5-of.html" target="_blank"> Inspirational </a>Magazine..yippee.</span></span><br />
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change in the weather and with it blue skies. I was recently invited to exhibit at the
Prague Patchwork Meeting with Anne Kelly as part o<a href="http://resonanttextile.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">f ResonantTextiles.</a> An opportunity to experience the world of stitch from
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There were representations by internationally recognized artists.The glorious colour work in the textiles of <a href="http://www.kaffefassett.com/Home.html" target="_blank">Kaffe Fassett</a> and<a href="http://www.brandonmably.com/Home.html" target="_blank"> Brandon Mably </a>were among the star attractions but equally, the high
standard textile work by the Czech contributors was to be greatly admired. The quality of stitch was beautiful and I paused to reflect if this
may be partly due to the fact that creating domestic items for the home and clothing for your family is
still very much a part of </span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Czech culture. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The competitions, 'Grandmother's Garden', 'Czech Quilt' and 'Architecture' reflected this
in stunning quilts of considered complexity.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">One
of my favourite exhibitions, 'Blue is Good' project had
contributions from all over the Czech Republic. It
demonstrated the potential of simple theme to create a wall of colour
which in clarity reflects the colours of the famous native blue glass. (The
proceeds from an auction of
the quilts later in the year will support </span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">PORTUS, a Czech charity seeking to </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">sheltered housing for the mentally challenged.) </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.janasterbova.com/vitejte/" target="_blank">Jana Sterbova's</a> stunning 'Red'
exhibition equally exhibited the strength of one dominant colour in
quilting</span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
international group exhibitions included 'Imagine' (first seen last year
at the <a href="http://international-threads.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/pictures-of-exhibition-in-prague.html" target="_blank">European Patchwork Meeting</a>),<a href="http://international-threads.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/pictures-of-exhibition-in-prague.html" target="_blank"> </a></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://international-threads.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/pictures-of-exhibition-in-prague.html" target="_blank">'International Threads</a>' and 'Radiation' all reflected a response
to themed work.There was also some lovely textile collages by French artist <a href="http://www.martine-apaolaza.odexpo.com/" target="_blank">Martine Apaolaza.</a></span></span></span></span></span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444;">Marie Curie </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;">by <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Gabi Fischer</a> (two on Left) and Birgit Schrader</span>,<span style="color: #444444;"> Radiation exhibition </span></td></tr>
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</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> A few shots of my gallery at the show. <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">As part of the workshop programme I offered a short taster session on the theme of 'Layers, Lines and Image' looking at shadows and patterns based on garden views through a window.</span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429027911181_2322"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429027911181_2321">The challenges I </span></span>set were responded<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429027911181_2330"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429027911181_2329"> to warmly, with humour and a great deal of talent. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429027911181_2330"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429027911181_2329">Helena
Geitel gives here own review of the course <a href="http://fincolorist.blogspot.de/2015/04/cas-holmes-workshop-layers-lines-and.html" target="_blank">here</a> Thankyou also to Eva</span></span> Brabcova for a fantastic job interpreting and her husband Vladimir for the wonderful images of the work below:</span></span></span><br />
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Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962190503863259067.post-38766354154309737982015-03-09T05:24:00.001-07:002015-03-10T10:56:39.914-07:00Making your Mark<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Making marks is a human instinct, we sign, doodle and even draw. This<a href="http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/articles/cartherin-bertola-installing-a-carpet-of-dust/" target="_blank"> time-lapse film </a>is of artist Catherine Bertola installing
Unfurling Splendour (V) - making her marks to form a carpet made entirely of dust - in Bilston
Craft Gallery in February 2015 as part of the two-week <a href="http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/acts-of-making" target="_blank">Acts of Making festival</a> of craft and performance.</span></span><br />
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(Acts of Making is in Bilston until 28 February before going on to
Gateshead from 7-21 March and Plymouth from 14-26 September 2015.) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Over the last few weeks I have been working on a number of courses which look at different approaches to making your mark and developing sketchbooks. Creating texture and finding texture in the landscape as inspiration is equally stimulating. The collaborative mark making in this piece was made from just listening to simple directions.This first evening introduction on Personal Journals, Sourcing Inspiration for Textiles, (one of my <a href="https://www.westdean.org.uk/CollegeChannel/ShortCourses/Courses/Textiles.aspx" target="_blank">West Dean </a>courses) gave surprising landscape mapping textures.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"> Chrissie Hart, Marks relating to Birdsong</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"> Issy Bean Folded drawings</span></div>
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Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962190503863259067.post-82051241473704278922015-01-28T10:26:00.002-08:002015-01-29T13:11:08.892-08:00Protest and Survival<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The 'Creative process' has always had a role to play both as a means of protest and of survival</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I loved the concept of ‘Book Bloc’ – groups carrying protest shields painted to resemble book
covers as they pushed through police lines; originating in 2010 at a
student demonstration in Rome, these were rapidly adopted by groups in
the UK, US, Spain and Canada.Knowledge and words symbols of power for people. The scope of the exhibition was wide and included <a href="http://Chilean arpilleras" target="_blank">Chilean <i>arpilleras</i></a>
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disappearances and torture during the military dictatorship of 1973-90.These often had poignant messages stitched into the back</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Finally, my own little act of quiet protest. Californian Poppy the flower of hope. </span></span></span>Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962190503863259067.post-77308462037670980362014-12-18T02:39:00.000-08:002014-12-18T02:39:21.922-08:00Lace Lines<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;">I have had a busy Autumn as we head into winter and as the days grow colder we see the lacy lines of trees and plants more clearly 'etched against the skies' and shadows of trees strongly cast against the sides of buildings.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;">I was fortunate enough to be invited to run a workshop in their wonderful studio space and we looked at ideas relating to lace, lines and layers. A few details of work in progress below by kind permission of the students, including making rubbings in the factory and cutting up lace scraps.This workshop was full. I am returning to the Netherlands with <a href="http://www.zijdelings.eu/index-en.html" target="_blank">Zijdelings</a> in Tilburg </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;">in mid March with full details on my <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">blog</a></span></span></span><br />
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Cas Holmeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18239132558786837719noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962190503863259067.post-27495166309038783702014-10-29T06:43:00.001-07:002014-10-29T06:43:32.639-07:00Edgelands and Autumn<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We are well into the Autumn and enjoying the latent warm weather of an Indian Summer. The days although bright in Kent are getting shorter. November is around the corner and this year more than any other we think of the past. 'The Gardens and War' exhibition continues at the <a href="http://gardenmuseum.org.uk/page/gardens-and-war-02-10-2014-04-01-2015" target="_blank">Garden Museum</a><span style="color: #444444;"> until January.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have had my head down getting back to teaching at Adult Education and handed the copy in for my next book in this month but also managed to squeeze in a lovely visit to<a href="http://sewnotstrawberryjam.co.uk/" target="_blank"> S<span style="color: #444444;">ew</span> Not Strawberry Jam</a> in the middle of the Kent Countryside to run two one day workshops with a look at the surrounding hedges and landscape for inspiration.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have just returned from a week in St Marie aux Mines in the Alsace as part of the <a href="http://www.patchwork-europe.com/actualites.php?language=GB" target="_blank">European Patchwork Meeting</a>. I spent most of the summer flying around and doing 'my stuff'.(more about that later) It makes me realise that freedom to be who we are is often taken for granted which is why I am delighted to support this fundraising </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">event</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> organised by<a href="http://stpeters-church.org.uk/" target="_blank"> St Peter's Church</a> at Boughton Monchelsea village Hall. You can own an original Ralph Steadman or even a Cas Holmes You can send closed bids by email to <a href="mailto:stpeters.church@btinternet.com">stpeters.church@btinternet.com</a> (with your contact details)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The prizewinning piece by Monika Schiwy,Breaking Through for the competition Imagine left and</span><br /><span class="userContent">Marianne Burr (USA), Cosmic Communication who won the </span><br /><span class="userContent">Apliquick's Prize</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You can see more on Gudrun Heinz<a href="http://blog.bernina.com/de/2014/09/europaeisches-patchwork-meeting-impressionen/" target="_blank"> Bernina </a>blog</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And of course, I exhibited as well in Spaces, Places and Traces. A glimpse of some of 40 yards and Flowers of the Field, plus <a href="http://magpieofthemind.blogspot.co.uk/p/tea-floratales.html" target="_blank">Tea Flora Tales </a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At this time of the year after the longest day as passed, I am drawn to think about what is new and what becomes a memory. I have spent the last few weeks working on pieces from my future exhibition in<a href="http://www.patchwork-europe.com/artistes-2014.php?id=76" target="_blank"> Alsace</a> and for the<a href="http://www.arttextilesmadeinbritain.co.uk/" target="_blank"> Art Textiles:Made in Britain at the Festival of Quilts</a> later in the week. This is a significant time, when we need to mark the events over 100 years ago but the one thing I have discovered whilst travelling is how alike, rather than different we are. In <a href="http://www.greencity.freiburg.de/servlet/PB/menu/1203162_l2/index.html" target="_blank">Freiburg</a>, I spent last Sunday walking around small allotments where families, gardened, children played and just relaxed in the sun. I did the same with my grandfather who would keep one row of veggies in his garden just for us to do pick and eat when we wanted. Most were beautifully kept but my eyes were drawn to one with a lonely bench and weeds growing through. I wondered who gardens, or had gardened there? </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I ran a workshop in<a href="http://www.greencity.freiburg.de/servlet/PB/menu/1203162_l2/index.html" target="_blank"> St Ulrich</a> with <a href="http://www.quiltstar.de/ausstellung.php" target="_blank">Quiltstar </a>which explored the notions of imperfection in 'New from Old Textiles' each student used an old fragment of cloth and reconstructed it anew in a short exercise</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Sophie Maechler (left) and Eliane Schurgast (right)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sometimes the juxtaposition of 'opposites' or looking at things from a different perspective can provide a new source of ideas and lead to new directions for your work. I recently visited the house of a friend and was drawn to a set of glasses placed in a window which also looked out onto a garden.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Similarly, I enjoyed sketching this collection of objects through a window of a greenhouse.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Similarly, these wonderful Indian panels are worthy of a backside look.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Bringing the outside in has been demonstrated in the wonderfully framing of one of my crows by the owners. He is placed in the trees and more relevant shares a space with<a href="http://www.charleston.org.uk/history-and-collection/research/quentin-bells-pottery/" target="_blank"> Quintin Bell's </a>characterful ceramics. Bell was also a writer and the biography
of his famous aunt, <i>Virginia Woolf: A Biography</i>, 2 vols (London: Hogarth Press, 1972)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Above sits a striking print by<a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ceri-richards-1836" target="_blank"> Ceri Richards </a>showing a detail of a Crane (below sits my Dungeness stitch sketch)</span><span style="color: #444444;">.</span><span style="color: #444444;"> He was commissioned to illustrate the poem <i>The force that through the green fuse</i> (1933) by Dylan Thomas for <i>Poetry London</i> (xi/3, 1947) which led to further paintings and lithographs related to Thomas's writings and to the work of other poets such as Vernon Watkins. Bringing together different forms of artwork and interesting juxtaposition of styles</span>.<span style="color: #444444;"> (wonderful to be in such exulted company</span>)</span></span><br />
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I trained in Fine Art as a painter but use cloth as my medium,
paradoxically things have gone full circle and II now 'paint with cloth'. Often these disciplines are
seen as 'opposites' in the creative field....I prefer to see their
connections</span></span></span></span></span></span> . This detail of 'Crane', one in the series o<a href="http://www.patchwork-europe.com/artistes-2014.php?id=76" target="_blank">f 40 yards</a>, uses the backside of a lace curtain and leaf print for the starting point</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;">.</span></span></span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finally, serendipity sometimes plays a part. As I was writing this, I was working in Wales on a one day workshop with <a href="http://itchyfingersart.webs.com/apps/blog/" target="_blank">Itchy Fingers</a> textile group. The focus being either <a href="http://www.dylanthomas.com/" target="_blank">Dylan Thomas</a> or Serendipity.(Images permission of the group)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> And not forgetting poetry and music, the stuff of life.</span></span></div>
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Though I am more of Sylvia Plath Fan: from her poem <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178965" target="_blank">Blackberrying:</a></span></span><br />
<i><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Overhead go the choughs in black, cacophonous flocks— </span></span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bits of burnt paper wheeling in a blown sky. </span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theirs is the only voice, protesting, protesting. </span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Inside out, back to front, back to the beginning</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.'Art is not real? it is a representation.' and equally, the artist's studio...the world is out there. see my<a href="http://www.textileartist.org/travel-textile-art/" target="_blank"> Extreme Stitching </a>article. on Textileartist.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b>Hempel's ravens (the confirmation paradox)</b>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"> While taking a group of benefactors on a tour through the new aviary
they had just helped to build, a noted ornithologist commented, "And
here we have two of the finest examples of ravens that I have ever seen.
Notice the lustrous black plumage for which all ravens are famous." The
ornithologist continued his lecture, commenting on the corvine feeding
and nesting habits as well as on the birds' legendary role as harbingers
of ill fortune.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">When the ornithologist had finished, a young man said, "Sir, excuse me, but did you say that 'All ravens are black'?" </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">"I don't know if I said exactly that, but it's true. All ravens are black." </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">"But, how do you know that - for certain, I mean?" asked the young man.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"> "Well, I've seen a few hundred ravens in my day and every one of them has been black."</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">"Yes, but a few hundred are not all. How many ravens are there, anyway?" </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">"I would guess several million. As for your question, many other
scientists, and non-scientists for that matter, have observed ravens
over thousands of years and so far the birds have all been black. At
least, I don't know of a single instance in which someone has produced a
non-black raven." </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">"That's true, but it's still not all - just most." </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">"True, but there is other evidence. For example, take all these
lovely multicolored birds we have seen today - the parrots,
toucans, the peacocks -" </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">"They're lovely, but what do they have to do with your claim that all ravens are black?" </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">"Don't you see?" asked the ornithologist. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">"No, I don't see. Please explain." </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">"Well, you accept the idea that every new instance of another black
raven that is observed adds to the support of the generalization that
all ravens are black?" </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">"Yes, of course." </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">"Well then, the statement 'All ravens are black' is logically
equivalent to the statement 'All non-black things are non-ravens.' This
being so and because whatever confirms a statement also confirms any
logically equivalent statement, it's clear that any non-black non-raven
supports the generalization 'All ravens are black.' Hence, all these
colorful, non-black non-ravens also support the generalization." </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">"That's ridiculous," chided the young man. "In that case you might as
well say that your blue jacket and gray pants also confirm the
statement 'All ravens are black.' After all, they're also non-black
non-ravens." </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">"That's correct," said the ornithologist. "Now you're beginning to think like a true scientist." </span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Who is reasoning correctly, the ornithologist or the young man?</span></span><br />
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<td align="right" width="96%"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><a href="http://www.paradoxes.co.uk/#Falletta">Falletta</a>, pp. 126-73</span></span></td></tr>
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