{"id":66038,"date":"2024-01-29T10:30:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T15:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=66038"},"modified":"2024-01-29T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T15:39:50","slug":"cover-artist-casi-fordham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/cover-artist-casi-fordham\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Artist: Casi Fordham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_66044\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66044\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66044\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Feb24-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Feb24-Cover.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Feb24-Cover-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Feb24-Cover-1024x642.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Feb24-Cover-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Feb24-Cover-320x200.jpg 320w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Feb24-Cover-810x508.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Feb24-Cover-1140x714.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-66044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Sun. Casi Fordham, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Gina Malone<\/p>\n<p>A magical childhood, a move to Asheville, motherhood, a penchant for finding art everywhere and a few real-life fairy godmothers led Casi Fordham to where she is today: a watercolor artist who shares her gift with others. She lived in Germany until she was six years old, traveling all over Western Europe. \u201cMy mother stayed home and made our world so cozy,\u201d she says, \u201ctelling us Brothers Grimm fairy tales and baking. She was pretty creative too. She loved to cross-stitch, making a lot of our Christmas ornaments. Our toys were mostly wooden and handmade locally, and the books she read to us had hand-drawn illustrations.\u201d Fordham attended German pre-school and although she spoke only English was able to communicate with teachers and her fellow students. \u201cI suppose much of communication is non-verbal,\u201d she says. \u201cI think what inspired me in those early years is what still inspires me now. My world has always felt like a storybook. I don\u2019t know how to explain it; it\u2019s just how I think.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_66043\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66043\" class=\"wp-image-66043\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Golden-HOur.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Golden-HOur.jpg 915w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Golden-HOur-172x300.jpg 172w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Golden-HOur-586x1024.jpg 586w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Golden-HOur-768x1343.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Golden-HOur-878x1536.jpg 878w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Golden-HOur-810x1416.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-66043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden Hour. Casi Fordham, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When she moved to Asheville more than 20 years ago, Fordham brought with her the creativity she had always fostered, particularly a love of color and of stories. She worked at Eclipse Salon for more than 14 years, enjoying a workplace that encouraged individuality. \u201cIt was a wonderful space for me to grow inside and out while listening and connecting with the beauty and pain of what it means to be human,\u201d she says. \u201cI loved my clients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An invitation to an art therapy night class seven years ago from one of those clients opened doors for her in ways she did not expect. \u201cI thought it was just an art class,\u201d Fordham says, \u201cbut when I got there I realized it was much deeper. The workshop was designed to inspire us to draw as we journaled, and journal as we drew. It was basically a way to get one\u2019s feelings out.\u201d The watercolor pencils she used introduced her to the watercolor medium. \u201cI honestly felt high at the class,\u201d she says. \u201cIt felt like falling in love, like when you have an amazing first date and you don\u2019t question the connection because you feel it so deeply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From that moment, she began painting every day, creating hand-painted Christmas cards for friends. By spring, she was selling cards on her own and posting them on Facebook. Rebecca Hecht, who owned Lexington Corner Market at the time asked if she could sell them in her store.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes it just takes one person believing in you to make all the difference,\u201d Fordham says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_66040\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66040\" class=\"wp-image-66040\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Fairytale-Mushrooms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Fairytale-Mushrooms.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Fairytale-Mushrooms-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Fairytale-Mushrooms-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Fairytale-Mushrooms-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Fairytale-Mushrooms-810x519.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Fairytale-Mushrooms-1140x731.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-66040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fairytale Mushrooms. Casi Fordham, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Encouraged, she kept painting. \u201cWatercolor isn\u2019t the easiest to learn, but I was determined,\u201d she says. \u201cWithin a year, I was able to paint bigger and looser.\u201d Her first show was held at Eclipse five years ago when her son Wilder was nine months old. \u201cSo much of my first work was inspired by those early days as a mother,\u201d she says. \u201cI was so inspired by this new love. I wanted his whole world to be just as magical as mine.\u201d Painting also helped her to work through postpartum anxiety. \u201cI was thankful then as I am now to have a creative way to get out of my head,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing how therapeutic art can be and needing a way to connect during the pandemic, she began holding small watercolor classes at home, eventually hosting classes at Catawba Brewing at the suggestion of then-owner Jetta Pyatt.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_66042\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66042\" class=\"wp-image-66042\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Ember.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Ember.jpg 1044w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Ember-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Ember-668x1024.jpg 668w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Ember-768x1177.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Ember-1002x1536.jpg 1002w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Cover-Artist-Casi-Fordham-Ember-810x1241.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-66042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ember. Casi Fordham, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During the fall of 2022, Kristen Edge reached out and invited her to teach at ArtPlay in the River Arts District. \u201cWatercolor painting can be intimidating, but Casi always puts people at ease, guiding them each step of the way and providing lots of demos throughout,\u201d says Edge. \u201cHer landscape and botanical classes at ArtPlay always sell out and people come back to keep learning with her. It\u2019s always amazing to see the beautiful pieces people end up creating in her classes.\u201d Upcoming ArtPlay classes with Fordham include Blue Ridge Mountains in Watercolor on Sunday, February 25, 3\u20136 p.m., and Water Botanicals with Fresh Flowers on April 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArtPlay is a beautiful space fostering art education and creativity,\u201d Fordham says. \u201cI love teaching. I love introducing a new skill to someone, but, even more, I love helping people get out of their heads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the natural world around her, Fordham chooses subjects seasonally and embraces the storybook essence that has always been with her. \u201cIn winter, I want to paint snowscapes, and in summer I want to paint whatever is blooming,\u201d she says. \u201cI love painting birds and woodland creatures. When baby bunnies start to appear every spring, of course, I have to paint them. Little snails I see on a hike. Mushrooms everywhere. I\u2019m obsessed!\u201d And, she adds, having a young son who shares that love of nature and, with her, finds art everywhere only heightens her awareness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always believed watercolor is how we see in our dreams,\u201d Fordham says. \u201cI can spend all day hiking, dream at night, then wake up and paint. So maybe my work could be described as fantastically realistic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>To learn more about upcoming classes at ArtPlay, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/ArtPlay-Studio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ArtPlay-Studio.com<\/a>. Find Casi Fordham\u2019s work at her studio Casi Gail Art (Wedge Studios, 129 Roberts Street, Studio 2B7) and at Woolworth in downtown Asheville. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/CasiGailArt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CasiGailArt.com<\/a>, and find her on Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/casi.fordham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Casi Fordham<\/a>) and Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/casigail_art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">casigail_art<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A magical childhood, a move to Asheville, motherhood, a penchant for finding art everywhere and a few real-life fairy godmothers led Casi Fordham to where she is today: a watercolor artist who shares her gift with others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":66327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-visual-arts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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