Bridport Town Council has formally recognised a generous gift of ten of lifesize sculptures to the town from local artist Greta Berlin.

Eight of the artworks can be seen in Riverside Gardens, East Street.

In welcoming the gift of artworks to Bridport, Mayor Ian Bark commented: "We are honoured to receive such an important body of work from Greta. Having her artworks displayed together in the open air will be a source of interest and at times a challenge for many years to come."

The gift of artworks to Bridport recognises and celebrates the town's long association with and support of the arts.

Greta added: "With the arts in education being eroded and funding vanishingly rare we are in danger of becoming a culturally barren country, I wanted, in some small way to redress the balance. Bridport has a wide reputation as a community for the arts, and a town council sympathetic to our cultural life while looking for a permanent home for my collection where a wider audience would be found."

More information about the gift and the Bridport Sculpture Trail can be found here.