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In this free workshop, textile designer Maria Cooper will help you take your first steps into creating repeat patterns from your artwork – whether this be for use on fabrics or wallpaper…..or on something else entirely!

Over the course of this one-day workshop Maria will:

• Introduce you to how she uses repeat patterns in her own work and how other designers use repeat patterns in theirs
• Help you understand what makes great imagery for use in a repeat pattern and how to manipulate these images to fit a repeat structure
• Introduce you to the different kinds of repeat structures and how to create them.
• Talk about her own work and share insights into how she has generated income from her art

By the end of the day you will have created two repeated artworks.

Maria is a Textile designer from Durham. She graduated from Cleveland college of Art & design in 2004 with a B.A. in Surface Textile design, she then went on to study an M.A. in printed textiles at the Royal college of Art graduating in 2007. For the following 15 years Maria has worked full time in industry for H&M, Zandra Rhodes and Orla Kiely. She moved back to Durham in 2019 and is currently developing her own practice in her studio at Ushaw College. Maria works across Fabric, Paper and Paper Mache. Maria loves colourful, joyous design. At this moment her main influences are, the post-modern design collective Memphis, Art deco, motifs from nature, Josef Frank and Dorothy Draper.

The workshop is free. Refreshments, lunch and the materials required to create your repeat patterns will be provided.