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Eleanor Lakelin
Eleanor Lakelin is a wood artist creating contemporary sculptures and art pieces from natively sourced woods. Exploring form and pattern, Eleanor’s work exposes the fissures between creation, decay and the organic chaos that exists within natural materials.
The provenance of her materials is of particular importance to Eleanor and she chooses to only use wood from trees felled in the British Isles. Having worked across Europe and West Africa, Eleanor currently creates from her London studio at Cockpit Arts.
Maker's Story
Eleanor Lakelin is a wood artist creating contemporary sculptures and art pieces from natively sourced woods. Exploring form and pattern, Eleanor’s work exposes the fissures between creation, decay and the organic chaos that exists within natural materials. The provenance of her materials is of particular importance to Eleanor and she chooses to only use wood from trees felled in the British Isles. Having worked across Europe and West Africa, Eleanor currently creates from her London studio at Cockpit Arts.
Maker's Quote
I’m fascinated by wood as a living, breathing substance with its own history of growth and struggle. I’m inspired by the organic mayhem of burred wood. This proliferation of cells, formed over decades or even centuries as a reaction to stress or as a healing mechanism is a rare, mysterious and beautiful act of nature.
Wood Artist
The Process
Eleanor often uses the surface of her vessels to reveal the layers of her wood, applying both modern methods such as sand-blasting and century old woodworking tools such as lathes and chisels to carve and hollow out her abstract, sculptural forms.
The Process