Welcome! I'm Robert.

Have a sculpture made especially for you.

An individually designed Eco-friendly wooden sculpture of a kiwi bird made by Ingrained Culture

Garden Sculpture

Ethical, local & sustainable garden sculpture, made from British grown wood and suitable for permanent outside installation.

Click here if you're ready to begin the design process. Or here to ask Robert a question or start a conversation (no obligation).
Hand carved thistle finial made by Ingrained Culture

Life Size Peacock

Sculpture

A wooden garden statue sitting with a real British woman

Life Size

figurative

sculpture

Giant wooden insect garden sculpture by Ingrained Culture

Giant Insect

for high drama

sculpture

A public art sculpture of a seal pup by Ingrained Culture

Realistic &

full size

animal sculpture

Free exciting design process |  Highly personal service | 100% legal & sustainable wood Grown in Britain

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The service I offer you, is to make the sculpture that you have in your mind's eye. We shall design it together and you will be involved with every decision along the way as I make it.

How to choose an exquisite wooden garden sculpture.

The best starting point is to decide what subject will make you smile every time you look at it.

So what do they cost?

 Well, everyone is different and unique and so there isn't just one price. Most people spend somewhere between £350 and £2,500 - but a life size and life like human starts at £7,000.

Have your garden sculpture made for you.

It's different here, be involved with the design and its progress all the way. Wooden art for the garden only works if it takes account of your garden setting and your personal taste. You don't have to settle for something ready made, something that other people want you to buy.

Guarantee:

Once I've finished making your garden sculpture, you'll get the chance to see it through video and decide whether it meets your expectations or not. You decide whether to buy it or not - simple as that - every time

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Table top figurative sculpture

A black woman table top sculpture by Ingrained Culture

Table Top

yacht sculpture

A yacht sculpture by Ingrained Culture

Life size figurative sculpture

Life size figurative sculpture by Ingrained Culture

Small & Modest

garden sculpture

Small scale garden sculpture of a robin by Ingrained Culture

To get in touch with Robert, either email or fill in the contact form below and he will reply promptly - promise,

(even on Sundays).

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Winner:  Best Eco-friendly Wood Carving Business 2024
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: UK Enterprise Customer Care Excellence Award 2024

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Large carved wooden animals for garden - a speciality.

Eco Art and Design, it's all about natural ethical and sustainable, locally grown wood. Low carbon processes and handmade traditional or contemporary sculpture, designed and made by hand & eye alone. But, suitable for permanent outside installation.

Video design consultations and regular video progress updates, are included in the price.

All handmade UK Garden Sculptures.

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One of the highest accolades for an artist/sculptor, is to have your work accepted into the Public Collection.

The Public Collection.


In May 2021, Robert's sculpture 'COVID CLOUDS' was taken into the Public Collection by Aberdeen City Council 'to be conserved for future generations'. It is now the property of Aberdeen's Public Art Gallery.


If you'd like to read more, click here to read Aberdeen's Public Art Gallery's pages relating to Robert. Please note Robert moved from Johnshaven to Girvan in 2022.


Robert makes garden wooden sculptures and wooden carvings for the garden.

A statement piece of Garden sculpture.

High impact statement piece of wooden garden sculpture by Ingrained Culture.

Large scale statement piece garden sculptures.  Really let your imagination go wild.  British high impact garden sculpture and design.

Contemporary individual garden sculpture.

Covid Clouds sculpture by Robert Lawrence of Ingrained Culture

Or, if you want to be right up to date, modern and contemporary, let's design together, a bespoke individual sculpture of a kind no one else has.

Contemporary wooden figurative sculpture.

Contemporary figurative sculpture by Ingrained Culture

This life size figurative sculpture was made from a single photograph. You may like to consider an Eco-friendly wooden figurative sculpture from your own  family or simply your imagination. 


Design your own garden sculpture.

A Eco-friendly kiwi bird garden sculpture by Ingrained Culture.

This life size sculpture of a Kiwi Bird standing on a fern leaf, was entirely the idea of my client. The design  was achieved through  a consultative video design process where I advised on the practicalities, but essentially the whole concept and pose etc belongs to my client. 

Wooden garden sculptures

Have you thought about sculptural decoration of your garden buildings?

Contemporary architectural sculpture by Ingrained Culture

A small sculpture can make a big impact.

A small figurative sculpture on a garden building by Ingrained Culture
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  • How do I choose a garden sculpture?

    Firstly, decide what's important to you, family animals, nature, flora etc. You can buy something already made, but in doing so, you end up with what someone else thought was good taste. Why not be involved with designing your own and have it made for you. Click here to find out more. 

  • Can I have a garden sculpture made to my design?

    Oh yes you can.  As an artificer, Robert of Ingrained Culture, will happily make sculpture to your design.

  • I want an Ecofriendly garden sculpture.

    Robert of Ingrained Culture makes all manner of garden sculpture exclusively from 100% legal and sustainable British grown wood. It's all about climate crisis mitigation.

  • What is Garden Sculpture?

    Well, it can be almost anything. Even some plants are sculptural. What makes you stop, look and think, what  visually makes you linger for more than a few seconds? That would be a good place to start when thinking about what you would like as a garden sculpture.  

  • I sort of know what I want, but I can't draw.

    No problem, just describe your sculpture design in words, and Robert of Ingrained Culture, will draw it, over and over again if necassary, until we get it right between us.

  • Can I have a unique, personalised garden sculpture?

    Every garden sculpture Robert of Ingrained Culture has made so far has been an exclusive one off.

  • Do you cover the whole UK?

    Ingrained Culture uses a speacialist fine arts courier who will deliver anywhere in the UK.

  • How much does garden sculpture cost?

    Most private clients of Ingrained Culture, spend between £350 and £1,500 for smaller nature based garden sculpture. Life size and life like wooden people cost from £7,000 per adult figure.

  • Can I get a free quotation?

    Certainly, fill in the form on this page and Robert will tell you how much it is to have your garden sculpture made. Free estimates and quotations.

  • I would like to know how you make my garden sculpture.

    Good! You will receieve from me regular video updates as your sculpture progresses, and give some demonstrations along the way. You'll always know at what stage the piece has reached as the making process continues.

Beautiful wooden sculpture for garden settings.

  • This is all about proper, right up to date environmentally responsible garden sculpture
  • Climate Crisis mitigation, here now & today.
  • Contemporary garden sculptures, or traditional fashions and styles.
  • Unusual garden ornaments made in the UK exclusively from British grown wood.
  • Low carbon, practical, all weather, Eco alternative to high carbon materials
  • Everything I make, is made from 100% legal and sustainable British grown, local wood.
  • As an artificer, I make what you want, not what I think you should have.
  • I can make your design, or we can design it together.

.......we're looking for a new and better world, aren't we?

Gardens all over the world have been ornamented by art & sculpture, probably for as long as there have been gardens. I guess, when we first think of garden sculpture, we either bring to mind the classical figures of ancient Greece or the ubiquitous garden gnome. The gnome has a place, and if you would like a wooden one, I'll make it for you, but I like to make individual one off pieces that have meaning and fit their locations and surrounding environment, but it goes much deeper than that. If you're looking for a sculpture to draw on the emotions, in my experience, a human figure can do that best. Wooden figures, have an air of real life about them, bronze figures may be perfect from all aspects, but they are almost always completely inert. 


Contemporary British Garden Sculpture.





An all weather coating making them suitable for permanent outside installation.

wooden garden sculpture made in the UK

So what's different, what's NOW about my work?


It's largely about climate change responsibility, my sculpture is made from British grown 100% legal and sustainable wood. It's not just any wood, it consists of carefully chosen species, careful use of specialist techniques, heavily built and robust. For pieces that will be installed in the open and unprotected from all weathers, I coat the whole piece in a marine grade coating for extended longevity. The end result is a natural appearance and an air of real life, something only obtainable by using wood.


Why do I not make Bronze sculpture?


The short answer is that Bronze was right for the Victorian period of industrialisation and Gothic splendour, concrete and steel were right for the modernist period of brutal architecture and science fiction, but today, the use of these (and other high carbon materials) are simply all out of date and some may even say irresponsible. It is fair to say the use of  bronze, steel, iron or concrete, will last longer than wood and require no maintenance, so it comes down to what your priorities are.


You may be a garden owner or garden designer, either way you'll have a passion for design and commissioning a sculpture for the garden, isn't easy, there's a lot riding on it. Perhaps, you would like a sculpture to be really NOW. As an artificer, I positively encourage your design ideas. I can make your design or we can design it together.


Points to consider:

 

  • The whole garden, what is its aim?  
  • Do you have a theme in mind i.e. abstract, animal, insect, human figure life like or fictitious?
  • Have you decided where the sculpture is to be installed - can I have a few photos?
  • Do you want your piece to be about drama, soothing, nature, love, erotic, exotic, shocking?
  • Do you want it to passively convey a message i.e. emotions, pain, love, loss, gain wealth, success?
  • Is it to be high brow, folklore, classical, modernist or a memorial?
  • How large or small, almost anything is possible and small can be as effective as large.

 


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