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1 33798* 2 Scaladaqua Tonga* Marius Kalmus William Pye The simple beauty of this Along the Broadwalk you’ll find water sculpture presents a stark a series of artworks related to warning to us all – etched onto water. The name of this water the glass is the number of plant sculpture means ‘curving water species threatened by extinction steps’. On the Upper Broadwalk, in the year 2000, the year the the meandering rill (4) National Botanic Garden of represents the River Tywi which Wales opened. According the flows through Carmarthenshire State of the World’s Plant report whilst the ammonite at the in 2015, 1 in 5 plant species are Circle of Decision (3) is a tribute now threatened with extinction. to 18th century Welsh naturalist, Edward Llwyd.

3 4 5 Osmunda – Living Fossil *** 6 Bluestone Healing Circle Glen Morris Darren Yeaden*** DNA analysis of a 180 million The circle of stones along year old royal fern Osmundia the Broadwalk is made from regalis fossil shows that the the same Preseli bluestone species hasn’t undergone any that provides the inner circle major evolutionary changes of Stonehenge. West Wales since then. Sculpted from sculptor Darren Yeaden invites Kilkenny Limestone, Osmunda you to feel the energy coming was first shown at Sculpture from each rock. Cymru’s 2015 exhibition Weirdstones.com Barcode Sculpture, a response to the Garden’s scientific research. www.glennmorris.co.uk

7 Fishes*** 8 The Dragon*** Sarah Tombs Will Holland Look down into the dipping A popular sculpture with pond in the centre of the Double children, this dragon was Walled Garden. Here you’ll see a made by Will Holland at the metal sculptured circle of fishes Phoenix Forge in Carmarthen. just below the water surface. This is a bespoke metalwork Notice how visitors like to throw and blacksmith’s business a coin onto the fishes and to specialising in traditional and presumably make a wish. Sarah contemporary metalwork. is a Swansea based sculptor. The dragon has been used to @sarahtombs2 symbolise Wales since at least 829AD. phoenixforge.co.uk

9 The Dragonfly 10 PI ** Chris Crane Rawleigh Clay Carmarthenshire based sculptor The name Pi suggests the Chris Crane takes much of his mathematical symbol and inspiration from British wildlife. invites us to consider the layout He works mainly with reclaimed and paths around the whole steel objects, rusty tools that Garden. Is there a mathematical have languished at the back of pattern here? Look at Pi from a shed, bits of metal that have different angles though and you washed up onto the beach, old may also see suggestions of farming equipment, and other altogether different shapes. remnants of the area’s industrial past. chriscranefineart.com

11 Tarw** 12 The Ghost Forest Sally Mathews Angela Palmer Modelled on a Welsh Black bull, These giant tree roots from Tarw looks across to Waun Las Ghana arrived here in Wales NNR where we have a herd of via London’s Trafalgar Square, Welsh Black cattle. It’s stuffed Copenhagen and Oxford with wool from dark fleeced University. Contemporary artist sheep. Sally Methews is a mid- Angela Palmer has used these Wales sculptor who specialises natural sculptures to highlight in depicting animals. the terrible effects of tropical www.sallymathews.co.uk rainforest deforestation and possible solutions – these roots come from a sustainably managed forest.

* Donated by the Derek Williams Trust Don’t miss our art gallery Oriel Yr Ardd. This has been has been showing ** Donated by the Contemporary Arts Society for Wales *** For sale. Please ask in Stable Block shop for details. 5-6 nature themed exhibitions per year since it opened in 2000.