Jose Garcia Martin

We found a little sculpture park, and went to explore when on a day out to the Sunday Market in Teguise. I've been having fun looking for alphabet letters and this statue was perfect for my 'Z'. You can see the finished A-Z here!

Info about the sculpture garden and it's creator is copied from here

This is the work of ‘outsider artist’, Jose Garcia Martin. Not much is known about the man the islanders called Don Pillimpo, except that he was poor, reclusive and possibly illiterate and at some point in his life he started populating his garden with figurative sculptures. Made from clay and rendered in white plaster, they are set around his now-abandoned villa, among palm trees, crucifixes and junk (rusty furniture, toys, irons, old TVs and computers, the odd lavatory…). With its statues on plinths and religious crosses, there is something cemetery-like about the place but, aside from the occasional disembodied mannequin (and a teddy bear chained to a tree), it’s also charming, comic and rather joyful.