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Elephant Tower

Bristol Zoo, Bristol                          
Commissioned by Bristol Zoo
        
The Elephant Tower is 4.5m high and was carved from a standing Cedar of Lebanon tree which had started to die.

The work is all based on animals at Bristol Zoo which Phil and Diane spent time observing and drawing.

Phil started the carving in early spring before our working trip to Canada in 2002 and completed it by late Autumn on our return. Sadly Wendy the Elephant had died in the September, so in a way it could be seen as her memorial.

In September 2022 Bristol Zoo closed its Clifton site - to reopen in 2024 in their Wild Place Project's site. Sadly the Elephant Tower was taken down and cut up. However over the twenty years it existed it was viewed by around ten million people.

 

 

© Diane Gorvin Philip Bews 2020