In this workshop you will craft a spoon from reclaimed timber. You will learn the safest way to use wood carving knives and leave with your very own timber creation. There will be a choice of timber blanks to use on the day.

A kit of sandpaper and a homemade wood balm will be given to continue to care for your spoon when you get home.The wooden goods at Grain & Knot are lovingly hand-crafted by Sophie in her home studio.

Find out more about Sophie's work: http://www.grainandknot.com

Sophie Sellu graduated from the Manchester School of Art in 2009, and now lives and works in London.

In the Summer of 2013, Sophie attended a spoon carving and bushcraft workshop in woodland in the beautiful British countryside. Inspired by the techniques learnt, she returned home the very next day with an axe, much to her family's amusement. After giving some spoons away as gifts, friends and family urged her to pursue this avenue and to create a brand for her woodworking and Grain and Knot was born.

After completing the Prince's Trust Enterprise Scheme, Sophie is now working as a full time woodworker, and is fully supported by the Prince's Trust.

Grain and knot was born from a love of nature, exploration and the need for purpose in creation. It is beautifully tactile, fully functional wooden kitchenware, with each item made from reclaimed timber.

During the workshop you will craft a spoon from reclaimed timber. You will learn the safest way to use wood carving knives and leave with your very own timber creation. There will be a choice of timber blanks to use on the day.

A kit of sandpaper and a homemade wood balm will be given to continue to care for your spoon when you get home.

Please bring an apron to this workshop.

Creative Breaks: making time for creativity in the working day has been developed by Sue Woodward, Angela Maddock and Jenny Oates. It is a well being project supported by King’s Cultural Institute. The project involves weekly hour-long arts-based lunchtime creative breaks over twelve weeks in 2018 for nursing and midwifery faculty staff and students Faculty members are invited to take part in a creative break based on the themes of ‘Five Ways to Wellbeing’: Keep moving, Invest in Relationships, Never stop Learning, Give to others, Savour the moment. The project will finish on 10 December with three separate extended workshops.

Please note: we are evaluating this project. If you take part you will be invited to complete a weekly online survey and some final evaluation. You are under no obligation to take part in the evaluation if you take part in the events.

These workshops are only for the staff and students of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, King’s College London.

Creative Break 13 - : Spoon Carving Workshop