During his career of over 40 years, Garland successfully sculpted a diverse body of work. His range includes sculpting astronauts to cowboys and soldiers; doctors, preachers, and firemen to pool players, nudes, and police officers; cats and mice to grandmothers; horses and dogs to grasshoppers, dung beetles, and Texas horned lizards. However, he always returns to sculpting the human figure as his personal benchmark, which he thinks is Mother Nature's finest work. This is where Garland finds his heart and soul with personal, emotive, and artistic visions. His scale ranges from paperweights to tabletop sculptures, maquettes, portrait busts, full length life size sculptures, and monuments greater than life.

Garland also achieved two of his professional sculpting goals. The National Sculpture Society selected him in 1990 for full membership and then advanced him to status of “Fellow” in 2004 with electing him to the Board of Directors in 2009. In addition, Garland gained full membership to the National Academy of Western Art in 1990. Other sculpting honors include the Texas State Legislature honoring him as the Official Sculptor of Texas in 1995. He was also an award-winning member and past president of the Texas Cowboy Artists Association, along with having membership in the prestigious Mountain Oyster Club in Tucson and the National Academy of Western Art. In addition, Garland was the Kenan Master Sculptor in Residence in 2002 at Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina. Since then, he helps upcoming artists by teaching a sculpting workshop every summer at Brookgreen Gardens.

Garland’s sculptures of note include a life-size monument of "Old Yeller" memorializing the author Fred Gipson, a life-size monument at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson, Kansas, memorializing the astronaut Gene Cernan (the last man to step off the moon), and sculptures for the Texas Medical Association in Austin, the Shannon Surgery Clinic in San Angelo, and a commemorative sculpture for the Lake City Community Museum in Lake City, South Carolina. In Lubbock, Texas, he has just unveiled a grouping of 3 life-size figures in his "First Responders" Memorial.

His historical figures include a life-size portrait of U.S. Army General Adna R. Chaffee, a life-size Revolutionary War memorial honoring General Francis Marion (The Swamp Fox) in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, as well as a sculpture on the campus of Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina. He also created a life-size WWII Infantry soldier memorial in Tyler, Texas and a life size portrait bust of Brigadier General Peter Horry in Horry County, South Carolina.

Other sculptures include a larger than life portrait bust of Mr. Preston Smith, former Governor of Texas, a life-size portrait bust of Berlin G. Myers, Honorable Mayor of Summerville, South Carolina, and a ram's head fountain for Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. He sculpted a life-size figure portrait of legendary football coach Curtis "Dike" Rose of San Jacinto High School in Houston, Texas and a one-and-a-quarter life-size monument of early 20th century settlers of the Wichita Falls area in north central Texas.