{"id":909,"date":"2025-08-01T18:46:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/?p=909"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:06:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:06:01","slug":"kirsty-elsons-spirited-creatures-breathe-new-life-into-weathered-driftwood-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/kirsty-elsons-spirited-creatures-breathe-new-life-into-weathered-driftwood-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirsty Elson\u2019s Spirited Creatures Breathe New Life into Weathered Driftwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Kirsty Elson\u2019s Spirited Creatures Breathe New Life into Weathered Driftwood\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elson-5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Wander into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirstyelson.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kirsty Elson<\/a>\u2019s Cornwall studio, and you\u2019ll likely greet a menagerie of creatures alongside scraps of driftwood and rusted bits of metal. Scouring local beaches and embankments, the artist (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/tags\/kirsty-elson\/\">previously<\/a>) has an impeccable ability to envision a piglet\u2019s ear or a dog\u2019s snout from a weathered hunk of timber. Once in her studio, quirky characters emerge from scratched and worn materials, their lively personalities shining through the signs of age.<\/p>\n<p>Elson sells some of her sculptures on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirstyelson.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">her website<\/a>, and you can follow her work on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kirstyelson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2256\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a lion sculpture made of worn yellow wood\" class=\"wp-image-459699 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elson-1.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1926\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a cat and hummingbird sculpture made of worn blue and brown wood\" class=\"wp-image-459700 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elson-2.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2473\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a dog sculpture made of worn blue and brown wood\" class=\"wp-image-459701 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elson-3.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2077\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a poodle sculpture made of worn blue and brown wood\" class=\"wp-image-459702 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elson-4.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2717\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a monkey sculpture made of worn wood\" class=\"wp-image-459704 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elson-6.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2057\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a dog sculpture made of worn red-brown wood atop a brush\" class=\"wp-image-459705 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elson-7.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2263\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a sheep sculpture made of worn yellow wood splattered with paint\" class=\"wp-image-459706 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elson-8.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1179\" height=\"905\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a dog sculpture made of worn yellow wood\" class=\"wp-image-459707 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elson-9.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\">Colossal Member<\/a> today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2025\/08\/kirsty-elson-wood-animals\/\">Kirsty Elson\u2019s Spirited Creatures Breathe New Life into Weathered Driftwood<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\">Colossal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wander into Kirsty Elson\u2019s Cornwall studio, and you\u2019ll likely greet a menagerie of creatures alongside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}