About Cassie

once upon a time…

I was born in England, grew up in Canada, spent 20 years in Scotland, and now live back in England, with my English husband and our Scottish-born son.  This should mean that we are delightfully multicultural; in reality it means that we forget all three of Canadian Thanksgiving, Guy Fawkes and Burns Night.

I was first introduced to printmaking at a weekly art course for teenagers at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.  When I moved to Edinburgh (in about 1995) I learned the ins and outs of stone lithography at the Edinburgh Printmakers, and then later took a course in textile screenprinting at the Edinburgh College of Art.  Since then I’ve also studied textile dying and printing at Edinburgh Contemporary Crafts, and with the amazing Joanna Kinnersly-Taylor.  Most of the other creative stuff I know I cobbled together from books and YouTube videos and pestering other people to teach me what they knew.

I read a lot.  I love children’s literature, especially picture books.  I also love the seaside, and builder’s tea, and the smell of hot pine needles in the summer time while walking down to a dock on a northern Ontario lake.  I have never met a cheese or a gin that were not to my liking.