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Garden Sculptures

All sculptures are original designs and have been hand carved in natural stone and signed by award winning artist Richard Kloester.

Commissions are welcomed. If you have an idea in mind or you love a sculpture that has already sold. We can work within your budget to create your own unique stone sculpture for your home, garden, office or park.

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Title: Ancient Guardian

Material: Sandstone

Dimensions: 40cm (Height).

Weight: 60kg

Edition: 1/1

What inspired this sculpture:

I wanted to create one of my trademark heads out of sandstone quarried from the Bendigo area, which allows me to sell them much cheaper than my marble heads. I originally designed Ancient Guardian to overlook our house, but my wife didn't want him to actually look into our house. Hence, the closed eyes.

Each head is one-of-a-kind and can be custom designed. Ancient Guardian has been designed to be mounted within stone retaining walls. However, this is just one idea where these can be mounted. i.e. Stand alone garden features, leg-ends for bench. Water feature with water coming from mouth. Could even have your bricklayer or stonemason mount it into your stone or brick house.

Price: Price on application

Similar sculptures can be commissioned

Title: Lifesaver: Commissioned for 40th Birthday

Material: Mount Gambier Limestone

Dimensions: 128cm(h), 28cm(w), 28cm(d)

Weight: 80kg (2 sections at 40kg each)

Edition: 1/1

What inspired this sculpture:

Shona from Sydney commissioned me to create a sculpture, inspired by the Geelong Bollards, originally created by artist Jan Mitchell.

Her design brief was to carve a fully clothed Lifesaver in stone without the use of colour, to be installed beside their pool in time for her husband's 40th birthday.

Details which would normally be easily painted in colours had to be reinvented three-dimensionally to create shadows, and textures also replaced vibrant colours.

I developed the concept where the sculpture comes in 2 pieces to enable easy transportation and installation, which reduces cost considerably.

Mount Gambier Limestone was a perfect choice for her Lifesaver, since limestone was originally from the ocean floor with many small fossils of coral and shells which are revealed once sanded back.

Price: Price on application

If you love this sculpture, a similar sculpture can be commissioned.

Title: Expecting

Material: Mount Gambier Limestone

Dimensions: 64cm (height)

Weight: 8kg

Edition: 1/1

What inspired this sculpture:

My Wife had just given birth to our 2nd daughter. Plus I have always been influenced by Henry Moore.

Price: Price on application

Title: Oracle

Material: Mount Gambier Limestone

Dimensions: 192 cm (height).

Weight: 110kg

Edition: 1/1

What inspired this sculpture:

I was invited as a guest artist to demonstrate the art of stone carving at the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show. I was so busy with my own exhibition I didn't give a thought to what I was going to carve until I looked at the stone. Direct carving was then adopted to carve from the heart without too much thought.

Price: Price on application

Title: Thorn

Material: Chillagoe marble, metal & granite base.

Dimensions: T.B.A

Weight: 200kg

Edition: 1/1

What inspired this sculpture:

"Thorn" was born from the Earth in Chillagoe, Queensland, from a rather unusual looking marble boulder which took the shape of a thorn. Thousands of years of water passing over this marble boulder have sculpted it into what looked human-made. Hence, Thorn was carved to look back up into the sky from where its original sculptor came - rain.

Richard Kloester was awarded 1st prize for Thorn at the 2010 Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show and caught the attention of "Better Homes and Gardens" on TV.

Thorn was also a finalist at the Tesselaar Sculpture Exhibition, at the Tulip festival near Melbourne.

"I never tire of looking at this it is so magnificent - just looking at that face and those eyes - eyes which are soulful with a hint of sadness in them. As if they have seen too much.The lines around the mouth and the lips themselves look as though they have known pain and suffering". - Melbourne Daily Photo

Price: Price on application