Professional info
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Cassy wants to live in a world where every dull space is painted with colourful murals and books come bundled with slabs of mature cheese. She loves justice, is a shameless idealist and knows that the world is only ever changed through action not opinion.
A passionate leader with deep practical & global experience her boundless energy brings extraordinary results. A dynamic communicator with over 25 years of experience in community development, she has worked for local government, corporates, NGO’s, schools and churches around the world. Often in the media, Catherine has featured on TV in the UK and Africa and is a regular presenter on radio.
Currently running 3 companies and 2 charities, Catherine has 2 children, 2 dogs and just the 1 amazingly patient husband! She did her degree in Aesthetics & Epistemology way back in the 90's & has a postgrad' in tertiary education. She is also licensed to drive a dumper truck & bakes a mean chocolate cake. When she’s not championing great causes, she can be found optimistically checking her mailbox for brown paper packages tied up with string.
Awards
Silver, RHS Flower show
Millennium Fellowship Award
WCVA Star people Award
Gold Medal, Floralies de Nantes, (Cities section)
Skills
Painting, mosaicing, glass, sugar sculpture, living willow sculpture, quilting, applique, embroidery, patchwork
2010 - present
2010 - present
Experience
Cassy painted her first mural in Romania in 1989. She and a few friends backpacked across Europe to help out in an orphange. They painted the walls, painted the play equipment and when they ran out of walls painted each other!
Since then she has painted hundreds of walls and believes she is now at well over a thousand art works- though not all have been painted, some were carved, mosaiced or even cut out of glass! Of course initially she wrote them all down, but those of you who still use paper and pens will know just how easy it can be t accidentally use the piece of paper you wrote everything on as a shopping list, where upon the other side is destined for the place where odd socks, teaspoons and Tupperware lids assemble....
One of her favourite things to do is sensory or interactive murals where all the colours are different textures and the whole thing is tactile/kinetic and often even musical! These are really popular with the clients too, especially those who are visually impaired and/or have sensory "issues" themselves. Her most popular sensory mural by far, remains the milkable cow- first featured in Splott's Deaf & Blind School!