David Cass

Today, we had an artist come into do a presentation and it was interesting to see another artist and how their styles are different. David Cass was the artist who came to give his talk for he class, he is a painter and also uses other media's like photography. Cass went to Edinburgh College of Art after leaving school and quickly knew the style of art he likes and has continued to use it; his style is painting on old wood, landscapes or cities. his media is gouache, a type of quite dry paint with a crumbly texture, he also uses water from the sea, often collecting from his travels, I found this creative and it mad his work more unique. Cass used so many different objects that he picked up abroad in flee markets for his work such as old match boxes and working larger on table tops often very old. Cass often goes abroad for his work; taking pictures and sketching, he went to Florence, Paris and Berlin. He used historical information for one set of work such as the Florence flood of 1966. One piece of work I liked was the puddles he created in a farm of which there had been a drought, so it was like a mirage this work did remind me a bit of Oliver Reed who came into speak a few weeks ago. I also found it interesting how he documents his journey and uses this as part of his work, he records where he goes and films and takes images of this. He also creates postcards for £60 each. which I have just looked and I think It is very creative. Overall I found it very interesting the work he showed the class.