Tanvi Kant is a contemporary textiles artist and jeweller exploring simple hand-constructed techniques in textiles & mixed-media. She has over ten years experience in running workshops within a variety of settings including galleries, museums, education, women's charities, public spaces and more recently nursing and residential care homes. She encourages responding to and working instinctively with materials and colour, with a focus on experimenting to uncover a core personal language.

Tanvi will join us to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of light, in a workshop inspired by Rangoli - an artform for creating decorative and symbolic patterns with coloured ground rice or powdered chalks on the floor particularly at the threshold or entrance of the family home. Rangoli designs are created on auspicious occasions. The colourful and often intricate patterns may include flowers for the beauty of nature, geometric patterns with cosmic symbols.

Learn simple hand-stitching techniques to create your own appliqué sampler of cotton on colourful fabrics. You will embroider over a pre-cut template of geometric shapes layered on sari fabrics and cottons. The sampler will be held within a small wooden embroidery hoop, all of which you can take away with you, so you can continue stitching, along with an illustrated handout.

All materials provided. Twelve places available.

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 Breaks 9: Textile Appliqué Workshop inspired by Rangoli patterns