Making Connections provides you with the space to…
Connect Drawing to Stitch
Learn new ways to observe and evaluate your world and fall in love with sketching. Everyday objects will stimulate the narrative in your work and you’ll see how everything is connected.
Create Your Own Story
Through Cas’s playful nature, you’ll learn to let go of the outcome, embracing uncertainty as part of the investigative and discovery process that leads to invention and experimentation.
Find Meaning in the Process
Learn methods to transform raw materials and found objects into individually designed mixed media and textile works that have a connection to a place, landscape or family history.
Inside Your Course
LEARN AT YOUR OWN PACE - UNLIMITED ACCESS:
Once enrolled, you’ll gain instant and lifetime access to hours of beautifully filmed content, with behind-the-scenes insights through a comprehensive workshop that would be impossible to share within the time limitations of a live class.
By fully engaging with the course content, you will try different techniques while being encouraged to engage your senses, experiment with materials, and ultimately expand your creative toolbox with fresh ideas and concepts to incorporate into your art practice.
Having lifetime access means our online method allows you to slow down, take your time, and dig into the modules and learnings that speak to you, embedding your learning. You have endless opportunities to take the lessons – to come back, re-watch, and learn more as your own ideas and techniques evolve.
A final note from Cas
My application of material and media has been described as ‘painting with cloth’. Bridging the worlds of textiles and colour, mark and stitch I find this liminal space a rich and challenging ‘in-between world’ in which to practice and welcome you in joining me there on this ‘Making Connections’ course.
My references come from the everyday, the world around me, and of course, the landscape.
The depth and tactile nature of textiles and their manipulation with colour and mixed media is particularly apt when trying to portray the shapes and forms we see in the world around us. In turn, the texture, details, shapes and colours of the outside world provide an infinite stimulus for the artist to draw upon.
Where these two worlds meet, the world of the painter and that of the stitcher, is where I ask you to engage with the course, drawing upon the subjects that stimulate your imagination as you ask what if? What next?
This course is not so much a ‘how to’ as opposed to a ‘why to’. I look forward to seeing how your work evolves and your understanding deepens, as you translate your learning into the art you want to create.
By way of explanation, according to the Oxford English Dictionary the word liminal comes from the Latin word limen, meaning threshold, relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process, or occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold. A liminal space is the time between the ‘what was’ and the ‘next.’ a place of transition, waiting, and not knowing.
