Outdoor sculpture can do much to elevate parts of the garden but unless you have specific knowledge of the topic, it can be hard to know how to choose a piece. A reliable way to discover your taste, from style through material to finish, is to see plenty of it and to see it in situ rather than in a showroom or studio.
As with art for interiors, there is a tremendous selection of garden sculpture on the market, with an accordant price range: expect to pay in the low hundreds for smaller items produced in volume and hundreds of thousands of pounds for large, singular pieces created by artists of note. Wood, stone, bronze and more affordable bronze resin are popular choices, but
