David Cass

In class we had a visit from David Cass, he is from Stow,  in the Scottish Borders. His main interests are painting and drawing but also widens his range by using photography,  film and sculpture in his work. What I found interesting about David, is he uses different wooden materials to work on,  such as old coffee drawers,  wooden chests, table tops and old doors.  He likes to paint sea and landscape paintings.  He uses alot of gouache in his work aswell. David has travelled to many different places to find inspiration for his work. One art collection I found incredible was 'tonight rain, tomorrow mud', this was inspired by the great flood in Florence in 1966 when two dams burst and water flooded the city and ruined buildings,  streets,  houses.  I found David's work to be different from what ive seen before but it was very interesting to see a different style  of art.