David Cass is a scottish artist from Stow that graduated in 2010 from edinburgh College of art. David came to our college to show us some of his work. He showed us a serious of his work that he called Surface. He would find Objects like drawers, Match boxes, table tops and other items that he finds at antique shops, flee markets and skips or bins all over Europe and often France and paints on them with gouache paint.
http://www.davidcass.co.uk/index/
David told us about a project he worked on in Spain. Because of the lack of water the crops would die which inspired him to create "False
puddles" in the ground made of resin plastic, or planting mirrors to symbolise
water,which he said was his "gift to the field
" he also did some work on forrest fires, and historical
floods from this David created a few short films that can be watched on his blog http://www.davidcass.co.uk/blog
David spoke about how he funds his travels and supplies with "the postcard project". Someone will order a postcard and david will paint a postcard, wherever he happens to be at the time and send it.
http://www.postcard-painting.com/
what i loved most about his talk was he told us he carries bottles with him when he travels, fills them with sea water and uses them to paint. i really liked the idea that a painting of a certain location is painted with the location. I also really liked that he uses found objects to paint on as i really like the art of up cycling.
David Cass is a scottish artist from Stow that graduated in 2010 from edinburgh College of art. David came to our college to show us some of his work. He showed us a serious of his work that he called Surface. He would find Objects like drawers, Match boxes, table tops and other items that he finds at antique shops, flee markets and skips or bins all over Europe and often France and paints on them with gouache paint. 
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