Persephone.....

This statue is located in woodland near Chapel of Garioch in Aberdeenshire.
Carved from an 8.5-ton block of millstone grit, the statue was carved in 1961 by Sandy Smith who lived at nearby Crowmallie House. The sensual statue recalls Indian art and carries a hand-mirror an allusion to a similar mirror on the Maiden Stone, a Pictish cross-slab located by the roadside a short distance to the east.