[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_wp_custommenu nav_menu=”5″ el_class=”sub”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_gallery interval=”3″ images=”10488″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Congratulations to TBSSS Wednesday AM student Simon Harris who was recently selected as a finalist in the Eden Gardens ‘Eden Unearthed’ sculpture competition. Eden Gardens is a large garden centre in Ryde, owned by patrons of the arts Anna and Simon Ainsworth. Simon’s sculpture, Naiad, was constructed with Pal Tiya sculpting cement. Pal Tiya can be sculpted like wet clay for the first half hour after mixing, then it can be carved and filed as it hardens. It is cured by keeping it wet,…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_wp_custommenu nav_menu=”5″ el_class=”sub”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_gallery interval=”3″ images=”10439″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School was founded by Tom Bass AM in 1974. The School started at a magnificent workshop space on Broadway.  Tom occupied the top floor with a Howard Lane entrance that took you up a wonderful old timber (square) spiral staircase to a studio flooded by light. When Tom first took over the space, pigeons had been it’s occupants so there was a lot of cleaning up to do.  He taught there for 24 years till redevelopment forced him…