Join artist Mags Orson to create your own decorative design inspired by the principles and techniques of William Morris.
Drawing beautiful flora and foliage, you will explore pattern-making through repeats, tonal studies, and a limited color palette, using both drawing and painting techniques to develop your design. By the end of the workshop, you will have created a finished motif that could be developed into a repeating pattern for fabric or wallpaper.
Mags will also introduce the digital tools she uses to transform her own designs into printed textiles, which she then uses to create handmade garments.
Mags Orson is a creative artist teacher, spending most of her working life at Charterhouse, Surrey.
Observation is always the beginning. A sunrise during the Spring Equinox, a neolithic burial chamber, or profound experiences such as birth or grief. Her work is primarily autobiographical and emotional. She works thematically using whatever medium is appropriate, painting, mixed media, printmaking, film, installation, or sculpture.
Although techniques vary, there are recurring preoccupations: transience, liminal spaces and the tension that can exist between space and matter.
Since 2020, her focus has been creating fabric designs based on the garden. After taking Rebecca Street’s Pattern Cutting course, she has started developing a new body of work called “Wearing the Garden”.
www.magsorson.com