These outdoor sculptures are sculpted trees in the shape of elephants in the park and they make a fantastic setting. Everyone loves elephants and so why not turn your boring old bushes into a magic piece of artwork like this?

Garden Art and outdoor sculptures create uniqueness to your garden and also provide some personality or flare that makes your garden or yard area interesting. Whether you are an accomplished artist in your own right and you like to create interesting and unique pieces or you just like to obtain and admire quality one off pieces of art created by others for your garden, nothing will give you garden more zing and pizazz than a noticeable, interesting and attention provoking piece of art.

Styles of artwork for gardens comes in many different designs and materials. Some choose to create smaller items of interest from moulds of either clay, concrete, cement or plaster. Others become a lot more creative and use a mix of different material, bronze, brass, tin, steel, and other metals. Part of the character of a piece of outdoors art is to let it naturally weather, for example, iron rusting to its typical rusty brown color often adds a special character to the piece, copper weathering to its typical greeny, blue oxide coloring and then there are those that chose to use what’s already in the environment and create something from rock, or stone or even from the plants themselves (like the image above).

This is a gallery of 27 interesting and thought provoking pieces of garden art and unique sculptures. Some are publicly displayed and others are from private homes. Hopefully these will inspire you to consider commissioning your own unique piece of garden art for your home, or perhaps even creating one yourself.

Colorful display of painted outdoor sculptures of cement snails in a beautiful garden. A very simple, easy and visually effective concept to replicate for the DIY’er in you

The Corridor pin, a giant blue safety pin outdoor piece of artwork. Visually interesting and set in a public park. 

The quality of the finish of these types of sculptures is mind blowing. This is a wooden deer hand made from natural driftwood material where everything is carefully put together with random pieces of driftwood

Cement statues of rabbits in the garden add a great contrast and interest to what would potentially be a very plain outlook. 

Modern outdoor colorful patterned art sculpture situated near a beach. Made from painted metal and embedded in a concrete plinth, the resemblance to nautical sailing and surfing themes is uncanny 

Wire shaped animals in a residential rock garden. Made from recycled barbed, plain or rusty fencing wire.Image source www.wireart.co.nz. 

Individual fingers of a large hand seemingly emanating from the ground holding a mature, mossy laden tree. Image Source www.whale.to

Large bronze garden sculpture of mother and child

Outside metal art work depicting four people sitting at table in a courtyard on a concrete plinth. The natural weathering of this display with rust spots adds to the overall character of the piece

Sculpture in front of a museum of modern art honoring Joan Miro Foundation. 

A common type of garden sculpture used as an outdoor feature for a garden. Many of these types of ornaments in various characters from angels to cupid and even majestic maidens are used to decorate a garden, or add something different to a water feature or a pond. 

Outdoor public park garden art structure

Clay hand sculptures

This is another public piece of art. Crafted in a mozaic style with mirror pieces, this art sculpture piece is of a dragon and features a water element

A contemporary modern outside piece of iron art. Representative of a couple of joined semi circular structures similar to engineering components. The natural weathering rusted effect adds to the appeal

Rusting metal outdoor art piece depicting a woman working at sewing machine. 

Two beautiful young looking majestic bronze horses with water fountains at their feet recreate the visual effect of running through water

Faceless heads, a garden art contemporary spin on ancient art in Rome exhibition

Private collection of modern metal garden art pieces in a courtyard

This piece of contemporary garden art is visually appealing as it look completely natural in its park like setting utilizing a carved out log of wood to create a garden bench seat. 

Interesting and unique outdoors body sculpture by Italian artist

Three garden shrubs with small red flowers shaped and decorated to look like ladybirds sitting on a stony area in a park

Bronze garden art statues of generalized people in specific poses
Abstract garden sculptures made of stone

Abstract sculpture of disproportionate nude woman inside an iron ring on a concrete plinth in a public park

A beautiful set of four hand carved chairs and a hand carved table with some feature horses in a private back yard with a green lawn