Artist creates gardens to promote mindfulness in Dumfries

An artist from Dumfries has created six Japanese-inspired rock gardens which have been scattered around the town.Peter Smith hopes the gardens will encourage the public to take a moment to focus on mindfulness, while out for a walk.

The project sees garden designers rake new pattens into the stones every day - which they say symbolises the town reinventing itself after the pandemic.

Project creator Peter Smith said:

The gardens form part of a wider art project called 'Atlas Pandemica' which is crated by the independent community organistion The Stove Network.Its aim to use art to help learn from the experiences of the pandemic.Garden designer Kirsty Turpi said: