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I'm looking for names of artists who draw/photograph/paint/build etc gardens or the name of artists who make sculptures and statues for gardens.
Links to websites would be really helpful as well! :)

Thanks!

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Ivan Hicks and Patrick Blanc are 2 names featured on the website www.skyarts.co.uk as garden artists of today.
The website www.gardenvisit.com lists garden designers by regions of the UK. Many use art and sculptiyre in their designs.
Another website worth a look is www.sculpture.org.uk which mentions the Sulpture estate at Goodwood, this features 70 works at a time, done by British sculptors of all ages, in a vast variety of materials.
Hope this helps!
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2008-03-09 10:21:01 by MUSE

SculptureCiti® www.sculptureciti.com is an art studio supplying original and unique, hand carved statue replicas, stone statues, garden statues ...

Hows the serenity?!!! Needing Bali/Thai/Sri Lanka style garden statues any suppliers recommended? D.I.Y. Thatch roof, sculptures, water features, water dishes. foot scoop thingys? ( What are they called???) , enough buddas already...wall hangings etc or D.I.Y.? Also love some fragrant smelling flowers - jasmine a must...and the super finest soft grass available ( snow angels bliss under stars...) Thank you!;)

There's a new landscaping nursery just opened up down our way in Dunsborough that could suit all your requests. However, in Perth you might have better luck in Landsdale as most of the larger nurseries are located around there.

2007-04-08 08:00:48 by Looney Girl

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I want to make a lifesize sculpture of my dog that I can have a concrete mould made from for a garden statue. Can someone tell me what materials I should use? Like, what kind of clay, what should I use for the bulk of the sculpture, etc? I've made small clay sculptures, but never anything on such a large scale....I don't think sculpey is what I'm going to need. ;o)
okay, so I would need to use an air drying clay, not one that needs to be baked or fired?

as you want to make a mold of it, you don't have to construct it so it will fire. If you can weld, I would recommend to weld a basic armature together of the correct proportions as the finished piece will be heavy (how big is your dog, dwarf pincher or irish wolfhound?). Then you can use newspaper/straw or whatever other filler you can think of. Chickenwire is useful to keep filler in place. After you modeled approximately what you want with your filler you can put your clay on. If you have a receipe for oil based clay you can make some of that. It's more expensive, but it gives you more time to work on it - which is however not necessarily a good thing. I prefer paper clay as it is easier to fix if it gets to dry, but normal clay will do only you have to be careful so it stays workable.
If you want to have a ceramic piece (which I agree will be nicer than concrete), preferable make your own paper clay. First figure out how big the kiln you have available is. If necessary plan to construct different sections to be put together after firing (look at the work of Viola Frey).
Make slabs. Usually you will have to let them dry over night a bit, so they are not too floppy. Then I would construct the body as a hollow piece. Use pieces of slabs as internal struts to give it stability (obviously never enclosing a space completely, poke a hole through). The key is working slowly but steadily, letting each section dry somewhat (not completely) to stabilize before you build up on it. Then if the body is reasonably firm, I'd build some support to fit (e.g. from bricks) so I could build the legs. Support anything (e.g. head or tail) by pieces of wood or whatever you need until they are hard enough to support their own weight. You can build quite large sculptures (I mananged 5-6 feet high) without any internal metal or wood support structures this way. Which makes firing possible - if you have access to a kiln big enough. Universities can have kilns of the walk in size.

2006-09-22 19:17:45 by Dana

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Ok, so I saw this laughing buddha/hotei statue in a catalog once while looking at it with my girlfriend she really liked it. Her b-day is coming and I really want to get it, but we don't have this catalog anymore and I can't find the statue. I am hoping to find the name of the company that sends these catalogs out so I can call them or check their website and order it.

It was one of those sort of "yoga style" catalogs, not just yoga stuff, but a lot of clothes and items for meditation, etc. It sort of looked like a coldwater creek catalog in layout. And it was a garden sculpture, so it included those kinds of things. Does anyone else get these? Do you know the names of some of these catalogs and maybe I can find it. Whoever gives me the name of the right one first gets the best answer (of course)

Thanks all!

If you live in a larger city, these kinds of statues are commonly found in Chinese curio stores. Sometimes you can find such statues in garden stores or even in antique shops.

Here are some online options:

http://www.holy-statues.com/product/567/
http://www.dharmacrafts.com/100xGS/2ST01 7/hotei-buddha-garden-statue.html
http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/atext/alta r1.html
http://www.mountainvalleycenter.com/stor e/html/fstatue2.htm

You can also shop on eBay:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll ?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=ho tei&category0=
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll ?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&dfsp=1& ;from=R10&_trksid=m37&satitle=la ughing+buddha&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6 &bs=Search&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2& amp;sadis=200&fpos=98115&sabfmts =1&saobfmts=insif&ftrt=1&ftr v=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1 %26fsoo%3D1

2008-02-21 10:57:33 by On the move

www.Neo-Mfg.com hand makes home and garden decor art staute sculpture bust & Wall art. Do buyers want or care if home decor is made in america?

As long as the quality is good, who really cares.

2007-09-14 19:34:39 by imagedrew_ti