Who could have thought that such beautiful shapes could emerge from the roughly-hewn ‘eggs’ of alabaster stone, all jumbled  together in the large wooden crate transported from Italy to the Tom Bass Studio? Carol Crawford’s recent sold out alabaster carving workshop treated a large number of new and existing TBSSS students to a weekend of carving this translucent and easily-worked stone. Carol’s love of the stone came through strongly in her teaching.  It inspired the students as they used their files and rifflers, encouraging the stone to reveal its secrets. Carol says:  “I enter another world when I…

How long have been at TBSSS?  My first class with TBSSS was sometime ago when Tom was still teaching and I had just moved down south. I then returned recently with a mould I had made way back then to cast it! This is my 3rd term. I just love coming. Where do you travel from each week? I travel from Woonona a little suburb North of Wollongong. What do you do when you’re not sculpting? When I’m not sculpting I’m teaching art classes to children from my little studio…