{"id":318,"date":"2020-08-04T17:31:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/?page_id=318"},"modified":"2020-08-15T17:19:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T17:19:43","slug":"telly-the-elephant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/?page_id=318","title":{"rendered":"Telly the Elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"318\" class=\"elementor elementor-318\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2519022 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2519022\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-af3df70\" data-id=\"af3df70\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-891468e elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"891468e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/106479573_270920044134316_2244171898205200898_n-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/106479573_270920044134316_2244171898205200898_n-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/106479573_270920044134316_2244171898205200898_n-scaled-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/106479573_270920044134316_2244171898205200898_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/106479573_270920044134316_2244171898205200898_n-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/106479573_270920044134316_2244171898205200898_n-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/106479573_270920044134316_2244171898205200898_n-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-53b24db\" data-id=\"53b24db\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b7296f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3b7296f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>For 11 weeks, 50 big and 114 little individually painted elephant sculptures took over North East England streets, parks and public buildings in the biggest and brightest art trail ever seen in the region.\u00a0<\/p><p>Alfie was commissioned to paint one of them.\u00a0<\/p><p>He came up with the idea of Telly the Elephant, a collection of notable North East personalities, some of whom posed with Telly. The elephants were auctioned and raised over \u00a3180,000 for <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stoswaldsuk.org\/\">St. Oswald&#8217;s Hospice<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p><p>The Elephant trail was inspired by Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, created by children&#8217;s author, David McKee (Mr. Benn, King Rollo, Not Now Bernard). 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