The Three Guardians – Leechwell Garden Sculpture Competition

Rosie Musgrave from Buckfastleigh was the winner of the Leechwell Garden Sculpture Competition. The five judges spent a morning interviewing each of the four candidates in great detail about their proposals for the Garden and many more hours deliberating over the result. It was a very close call with four excellent works to choose from but Rosie’s Three Guardians to be carved from Portland stone won the day.

The white stone will stand out against a background of dark green hedging and will have low evergreen planting at the base. The abstract figures will combine a twenty-first century approach with a traditional link to the water source and the three healing wells known as Snake, Toad and Long Crippler (slow worm). The £5000 award from the Groundwork UK and Big Lottery Fund’s Community Spaces programme was officially presented to Rosie Musgrave in 2011 and the Leechwell Garden Associationthe sculpture was installed in October 2011.

Rosie is an Associate member of The Royal British Society of Sculptors and a Member of Southwest Sculptors.