Garden Sculpture

Garden designers and landscape consultants Brown Earth Landscapes consider garden sculptural features to be a key ingredient when contemplating the design of a garden.

Here Claire Reading of Brown Earth Landscapes takes a closer look at the world of garden sculptural features.

Sculptural features come in an extremely wide variety of styles, ranging from wall paintings, to sculptures, fountains, wall hangings, decorative planters, and architectural features such as garden arches. They can be formal or informal, traditional or modern, serious or frivolous, expensive and exclusive, or cheap and mass produced. Used wisely, any of these can greatly enhance your outdoor space.

Sculptural style depends largely on personal preference and the look of your house and garden. Sculpture can govern and manipulate the movement of the eye around the garden and careful positioning of a piece of sculpture or a sculptural feature can breathe life into a garden.

A small split-level garden such as this urban garden in the centre of Edinburgh needs a central feature to hold the eye within the space. This sleek, contemporary sculptural piece is used to maximum effect to create a strong focal point, while the use of bamboo adds height and an exotic feel to the garden. Spotlit at night, an interesting sculptural feature such as this can give your living space inside a whole new dimension and unify the whole inside/outside concept.

This custom designed slate water feature was made from a single piece of stone and made a strong and dynamic focal point for this contemporary space.