Sage  Elwell

Boar & Thistle is the creative studio and imprint of Sage Elwell - artist, author, and professor - dedicated to the unruly, the visceral, and beautifully broken.

Here, art and words meet on their own terms: weighty, imperfect, and alive. The work grows from a lifelong engagement with the body in all its forms: its birth and decay, its hungers and desires, its resilience and its breaking points. Every piece, whether cast in metal or language, is a testament to process over product.

The boar is fierce persistence, rooted in the earth and unwilling to be tamed. The thistle, stubborn and sharp, blooms in the margins where least expected. Together, they hold a space for work that resists the polished and the disposable, honoring instead the handmade, the hard-earned, and the defiantly human.

Boar & Thistle is not interested in perfect surfaces. It’s interested in the stories and scars beneath them.