The Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School teaches the fundamentals of sculpture which can in more advanced stages be applied to a wide variety of expression.

The fundamentals are the understanding and recognition of form and the relationship of one form to another in a total complex of relationships - the process of evolving a composition. 

The essence of this is drawing – sculpture is the ultimate drawing of form in three dimensions.

The processes used are mainly modelling and carving as these are recognised as the primary vehicles for the learning the fundamentals.

The pedagogical characteristic of the Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is that it is a workshop school in which students work in an apprenticeship – master relationship with the teacher. 

Each student is treated in an individual way.  There is no curriculum – each student is helped to find out what it Is that they want to do and to bring this about.  The result is that at any one time a wide range and variety of work is being done – students are encouraged to learn from the processes other students are engaged in.

The Life study is the ultimate learning process for the student to develop the skill of seeing and of understanding form, as the life figure is regarded as the most perfect possibility for looking at natural form with all its complexity.   

Knowledge and familiarity of natural form is the very basis of the sculptural vocabulary.  Natural form is looked at abstractly, not anatomically which means that it is really seen it without being labelled.  It also enables the student to learn about the value of proportion, rhythm, harmony, movement and the relationships between forms.

Tom Bass has devoted his life to giving expression to community needs, aspiration and characteristics as a totemic sculptor.  The continuation of this tradition is encouraged.