Welcome to Art Parks International, your gateway to an extraordinary collection of contemporary sculptures from talented artists across the UK and around the world.
Founded in 1998 with the support of John Mills, President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, Art Parks International has grown into a premier destination for contemporary sculpture. Our mission is to connect art lovers, collectors, and landscape designers with exceptional sculptures created by both UK-based and international artists.
From the very beginning, our sculptures have found homes across the globe, from the Americas and New Zealand to Europe, Britain, and its islands. With a constantly evolving collection, we are always eager to discover and collaborate with new artists, offering them the opportunity to showcase their work to an engaged and growing audience.
Annual Sculpture Exhibition
Each year, our highly anticipated new exhibition opens in mid-May, launched by a distinguished guest from the world of art, design, and culture. We have been honored to welcome:
- Professor Robert Ward – Director of Sculpture at Bretton Hall, University of Leeds
- Nicola Godden ARBS – Accomplished sculptor
- Martine Gerardin – Travel & Garden correspondent, Le Figaro
- Charles Saumarez Smith – Director of the National Gallery
- John Mills – President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
- The Countess of Sandwich – President of the Garden Scheme, Historic Houses Association of Great Britain
- Roddy Dudley-Smith – Guernsey National Trust
- Anthony Stones – President of the Royal Society of Portrait Sculptors
- Alan Grieve – Director of the Jerwood Foundation
Celebrated by the Media
Our work has been widely recognized in national and international publications, including Country Life, Gardens Illustrated, The English Garden, Le Figaro, Interiors Illustré, Country Landowner, and even The Bangkok Times.
At Art Parks International, we are passionate about sculpture’s power to transform spaces and inspire creativity. Whether you’re seeking a striking centrepiece for a private garden, a public installation, or a curated collection for an estate, we invite you to explore our diverse and ever-expanding portfolio.
Are you an artist looking to showcase your work? We’d love to hear from you! Email Peter at [email protected]
Peter de Sausmarez who Studied Art amongst other things at Radley College near Oxford went on to join the Army, and after serving with the Coldstream Guards in London, Windsor, Aden and Mauritius joined Christies the International Auctioneers where his love of art focused on Sculpture and Oriental Art . The Lack of vacancies did not permit him followingin those directions and so he joined the then brand new Wine department working under the Giants in the trade at the time, Michael Broadbent and Alan Taylor Restell.
He was head hunted by the Sunday Times who were starting an Auctioneers page.Life took another turn as he finished up as Sales Trainer to the outside sales force for the Times.
After doing a number of interesting things which included running a sales force for a local London Paper,property development, running a successful PR and marketing Company he came back to his Ancestral Home In Guernsey to keep it in repair by further opening it to a variety of aspects of Tourism in the summer months whilst being the British Agent for such famous Luxury Fashion houses at the time of Balenciaga, Nina Ricci ,Richard Carrier, Paula Klien etc in the Autumn and Winter.
It was not till he was introduced to two very successful sculptors Guy Portelli and Ev Meynell who sowed the idea of adding a Sculpture Park in the Grounds of Sausmarez Manor that the love of sculpture was rekindled. Much encouraged By John Mills the President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors he set about recruiting top notch sculptors to show in the island
Being the First Stately Home to have a Sculpture Park open to the public was an immediate success with Buyers flying in to to look and buy from all over Europe and Americans on those Early Cruise Ships that were just beginning to visit Guernesy. Some of the visitors were fellow Historic House owners and even a vineyard owner from Australia and a London Auction house came and took the idea home with them.
It was the gift of a new idea at the time, of a website by his eldest son William which was initially used as an Inventory cum Catalogue that changed his life so dramatically when people became more confident buying on line. Artists flocked to join and become a member of ArtParkS hearing of its international success boosting the site to being possibly the largest and most comprehensive dedicated Sculpture Website in Europe if not the World.
It now handles everything from large prestige commissions to small bronzes on a daily basis, with specifiers and buyers in one continent ordering from sculptors in an other halfway round the world, with the confidence born of repeated successes.