Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is celebrating 50 years! We will be sharing interviews with members of our community to mark this milestone. Today, TBSSS alumni Donna Littlejohn.

Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is celebrating 50 years! We will be sharing interviews with members of our community to mark this milestone. Today, TBSSS alumni William Feez

Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is celebrating 50 years! We will be sharing interviews with members of our community to mark this milestone. Today, sculptor & TBSSS alumni Brendan Toole.

Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is celebrating 50 years! We will be sharing interviews with members of our community to mark this milestone. Today, sculptor, TBSSS alumni & teacher Christine Crimmins.

Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is celebrating 50 years! We will be sharing interviews with members of our community to mark this milestone. Today, sculptor & TBSSS alumni Christophe Cornard.

Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is celebrating 50 years! We will be sharing interviews with members of our community to mark this milestone. Today, sculptor & TBSSS alumni Tony Wong Hee.

Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is celebrating 50 years! We will be sharing interviews with members of our community to mark this milestone. Today, sculptor, TBSSS alumni & teacher Wendy Black.

Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is celebrating 50 years! We will be sharing interviews with members of our community to mark this milestone. Today, sculptor, TBSSS alumni & guest teacher Ingrid Morley.

Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is celebrating 50 years! We will be sharing interviews with members of our community to mark this milestone. Today, sculptor & TBSSS alumni BJ Kim.

Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is celebrating 50 years! We will be sharing interviews with members of our community to mark this milestone. Today, TBSSS alumni Margo Hoekstra.

Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is celebrating 50 years! We will be sharing interviews with members of our community to mark this milestone. Today, sculptor, TBSSS alumni & teacher Peter Bartlett.

Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is celebrating 50 years! We will be sharing interviews with members of our community to mark this milestone. Today, sculptor, TBSSS alumni & guest teacher Carol Crawford.

Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is celebrating 50 years! We will be sharing interviews with members of our community to mark this milestone. Today, sculptor and TBSSS alumni Virginia Lloyd-Tait

Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is celebrating 50 years! We will be sharing interviews with members of our community to mark this milestone. Today, sculptor, TBSSS alumni and fomer TBSSS teacher Bernice Lowe.

Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is celebrating 50 years! We will be sharing interviews with members of our community to mark this milestone. Today, artist and TBSSS alumni Elena Murgia.

Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is celebrating 50 years! We will be sharing interviews with members of our community to mark this milestone. First up, artist and TBSSS alumni Lea Ferris.

“My creative process is fluid and organic. If I am carving stone, it starts with the choice of the raw stone and from there I simplify and if it’s too ‘simple’ I complicate. It’s a very hard thing to articulate as my carving process is more like an inner conversation, between me and the stone where we both speak to each other, listen, and adjust as required…”

“I had an epiphany last year when I suddenly realised that I was creating stone sculptures in my drawings... and that I really should be exploring real sculpture... with real stone. It’s already given me an invaluable insight into the genius of past sculptors from primitive ‘stone age’ carvers to the renaissance…”

Recently, we've heard that a number of people had the opportunity to get themselves out to Orange to see the just closed exhibition Laurence Edwards: A Gathering of Uncertainties, which showed at the Orange Regional Gallery.

So what is sisal, where does it come from, and why is it used in sculpture? Answering this question took me to the most unlikely of places: the Oxford Botanic Gardens…