In this workshop participants create patterns from scratch.

Patterns exist in all different manuscripts, carpets, wall decorations and paintings around the globe.

The bases to create patterns start from geometric shapes.

Participants will learn how to start creating a pattern by repeating simple shapes in special orders.

Note: This workshop is suitable for participants over 14 years old.

It is beginner friendly and open to all levels.

Duration: 120 minutes including 15 minutes break.

The first 15 minutes of the session, participants will view books and slide show about patterns. Introduction about tools we use in this workshop.

Roxana will provide books to look at and some printed examples for practicing.

By the end of the workshop participants create their own pattern inspired by Arabesque or Mandala patterns.

Roxana Manouchehri is an Iranian/Irish multidisciplinary artist, art advisor, writer, translator and mentor based in Dublin. She has received an MFA in fine art from the Tehran University of Art.

She has been teaching art and giving talks and workshops, since 1995 in different universities and museums in Tehran, Seoul and Dublin, including Trinity College, the Chester Beatty Museum, IMMA (Irish museum of modern art), Open House Dublin, Rua Red and The Hugh Lane Gallery.

She has had more than 50 group exhibitions internationally and 17 solo exhibitions worldwide.

She is the winner of diversity award from Solstice Art Center and Arts Council Ireland,2021.

Her ongoing research on European medieval and Persian manuscripts are the main resources in her practice.

Beside her studio based individual practice she is interested in socially engaged and community-based projects.

Roxana is a founder of Transnational Arts Ireland which is an online platform to exchange art between Ireland and other countries including Iran.

She translated ‘Non-Dubliners’ by Jinoos Taghizadeh from Farsi to English, published by Avolon in Dublin 2018. She translated ‘why the moon travels’ by Oein De bhairduin from English/Gammon to Farsi published by Nazar publication in Iran 2025.

Currently she works on her illustrated book ‘This is not a cook book’ with Skein press in Dublin.