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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: 60cm (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. The sculpture was to be installed beside their pool for her husband's 40th birthday.

Her design brief was to carve a fully clothed Lifesaver in stone without the use of colour. 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 costs 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 what I was going to carve any thought until I looked at the stone. Oracle evolved from a simple shape that popped into my head by looking at a blank stone.

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:

The stone itself inspired this sculpture. The boulder marble was quite an unusual shape. It looked like a giant sharks tooth. The Idea behind the face was to sculpt a godly portrait looking up at the stars.

Thorn won first prize at the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show and has been published in various newspapers and also caught the attention of Better Homes and Gardens, at the 2010 Garden Show, where Thorn received air time on TV.

Price: Price on application

Title: Serpent

Material: Mount Gambier Limestone

Dimensions: T.B.A

Weight: 40kg

Edition: 1/1

What inspired this sculpture:

Price: Price on application