Above is an early work from the series painted in watercolour. In this case, gouache and egg tempera. Concert is painted onto a wooden box-lid, and measures 50 × 71cm. This piece is unframed.

Gallery: £1750 / Studio: £1275

Like those listed at the top of the webpage, the three artworks below – also painted onto a mix of canvas and wood – are each hand-framed in stained oak. The majority of these paintings use bus-blinds as their surface, found mostly in Brussels. Bus-blinds are a type of “roll sign”, made of canvas or linen. Pre-digital, they would have been rotated by the driver (of a bus or tram) to indicate the direction of travel. Unrolled and pasted to board (or stretched like a canvas) they become an ideal recycled surface for painting onto.

Exhibited in Venice, Santa Fe, Fife, Edinburgh, Sussex, Suffolk & Essex, these “tin paintings” are now available directly from the studio as a set of forty—each named for days of the year.

Originally exhibited at Venice Biennale, these miniatures – painted onto antique metal tins from around the world – pay homage to the sea. They speak of time past, present and future; of function and the daily coming and going of the tide. These forty fleeting moments come together to describe a bigger picture, a collective memory.

“Each painting contains a different body of water, where the horizon line, time of day, and weather conditions vary in every unique view”, writes Kate Reeve-Edwards. “The painting process reacts and enhances the objects, working with them to create a new life. A circular ecosystem of reuse and repair is what Cass is gently encouraging. The hand-held world of the tin is regenerated: these small objects which once contained tobacco, mints, or teabags now convey new, bigger ideas...”