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Dame Elisabeth Frink, one of Britain's most important post-war sculptors, and arguably its greatest female sculptor, died on April 18th, 1993, in Dorset. This year, on the thirtieth anniversary of her death, Dorset Museum and Art Gallery in Dorchester are presenting 'Elisabeth Frink: A View From Within', the museum's first-ever exhibition to focus on Frink's life and work in Dorset. In 1976, visiting friends in Sherborne with her husband Alex, Frink happened across a neglected, secluded house for sale. She had lived in Dorset as a child from the age of 11 when her father, an army officer, was stationed in the county. She loved the Dorset landscape, and this house she saw, and its spacious grounds – provided the perfect site for her large-scale works, and the light essential for her work, as well as land to keep horses. Thus, it was Woolland House, near Blandford Forum – around ten miles from Dorchester - which became her home and studio for sixteen years fr ....

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