The Extinction Collection

Eleanor Lakelin’s work for The Extinction Collection offers a captivating intersection of history, nature, and art. Her sculptures, Pine Studies 1 and 2, are carved from 875,000 year old wood—found at Happisburgh, Norfolk. 

This prehistoric pine, buried for centuries beneath coastal sediment, and exposed by erosion, has been carefully collected and treated before being transformed into Lakelin’s  thought-provoking sculptures.

It's been an 18 month process.

Stage 1 - collecting, soaking and stabilising the wood. 

Stage two - turning, carving and sanding.

Stage 3 - melting and applying pine rosin to the sculptures, to fill cracks and stabilise the turned wood.

Images: EAE & Eleanor Lakelin

The Extinction Collection