This is the first season in which The Outer Space Company and Newington Nurseries have collaborated to showcase work by local artists. The collaboration has been so successful that it will be repeated next year.

The cleverly designed garden rooms and the mature planting in the garden at Newington provide the perfect setting for a wide range of pieces, which work well as part of the planting scheme, as well as making their own statements.

All of the pieces are for sale, some as limited editions, and commissions for pieces similar to those on show are welcomed. Some pieces are made from wood, some from metal and others from clays, such as Becky Paton’s pretty ceramic patterned spheres with patterns. The surface of each sphere is covered with tiles of glass, mirror or smalti. Smalti tiles, better known as Byzantine glass, are attractively cloudy and opaque, due to the metal oxides that are mixed into the molten glass, during manufacture. Autumn Sphere (above) can be seen nestling comfortably in a planting in complementary colours. Other spheres find similar homes, while still more perch on top of plinths created from upturned logs.

A mini grassy meadow provides a successful home for a number of Ruth Moillet’s Pollination Stems, made from stainless steel and anodised aluminium, where art imitates life by creating flower heads and butterflies mounted on steel rods which provide shapes and textures that integrate well into the grasses.

A bolder statement is made by Andrew Thompson who uses mild steel to create Strolling Man and Strolling Woman, three-quarter-size figures, gently exercising their spare forms. Smaller are his three Wise Men, equally definite but discretely placed within the planting.

The exhibition at Newington Nurseries, continues until the end of September, 10am-5pm Tuesday to Sunday and Bank Holidays.