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| Inspire - Becoming a Sculpture Vulture |
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Page 1 of 2 Joanna Trezise shows you how to liven up a winter-weathered garden for spring Have you ventured into your garden of late? Some light pruning has probably been far from your mind during the frosty winter months. With spring around the corner, however, thoughts turn to planting, weeding and general improvements to the outdoor room. Increasingly, gardeners are looking for alternative ways to enhance the beauty of their gardens. Having designed ourselves to distraction within our own four walls, attention has begun to focus on how we can express ourselves in our outside space.  A view of Rosemundy Garden, a recent extension to Galerie Pelar's Sculpture Garden. For centuries, sculpture has created intriguing focal points in gardens, enhancing existing planting, or acting as a feature around which to create a new garden style. The environment interacts with sculptural form to create an impressive, often grand, impact. Unlike paintings, which rely on visual impression first and foremost, sculpture also encourages the viewer to deploy other senses – touch and, in the case of water or wind-based sculptures, sound. Mainstream garden centres have not been slow to recognise the sales opportunity, although some caution may need to be exercised around mass-produced concrete squirrels. However large or small your garden, sculpture can create a space with unique character and style. |
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