A tree that was blown down during a winter storm has been turned into a 6m (19.7ft) sculpture of a pouncing fox at a Cornish gardens.<\/p>\n
The Lost Gardens of Heligan unveiled Lowarnes – Cornish for vixen – which was made from the wood of a 150-year-old Cornish Red rhododendron.<\/p>\n
Staff from Heligan helped hand-split 600 pieces of wood for the pouncing fox’s fur, under the direction of Cornish brother and sister artists Sue and Pete Hill and Hal Silvester.<\/p>\n
Laura Smit-Chesterfield, director of visitor experience at the gardens, said the sculpture was “a glorious celebration of Heligan’s wildlife”.<\/p>\n
The tree predated World War One, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
“As the sculpture ages, the wood will fade to a lighter, more silvery tone which reflects what happens to vixens’ fur after they have become mothers,” they said.<\/p>\n
The sculpture is accompanied by a collection of Heligan-inspired poetry from poet laureate Simon Armitage, with both works “highlighting and celebrating the wildlife who make Heligan their home”, Heligan said.<\/p>\n
Ms Hill said Armitage’s poem, Den, “speaks so powerfully of the wild, feral nature of foxes”.<\/p>\n
She said a photograph of a pouncing fox taken on the Heligan estate by Andy Wilson was the artists’ “core inspiration”.<\/p>\n
“Lowarnes has her gaze set on you as her prey,” she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tree that was blown down during a winter storm has been turned into a 6m (19.7ft) sculpture…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-146438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}