Roni Roberts

Artistic Woodcraft

My work aims to be a celebration of local Welsh wood. My love for wood combines with my love for my homeland. I work with both green and seasoned wood and try to allow the wood to have the last say in what is being created. The craft of turning on a lathe, mainly bowls, is the mainstay of my work as the simple form show the wood to great advantage. I also make furniture, and here again I try to work out how the wood can ‘talk’ and be shown off to its best advantage in the most simple way.

“It’s like the ultimate tribute to a tree that, though its growing life has ended, its beauty and usefulness can continue.

Y nod yw darganfod yr harddwch naturiol sydd yn y pren yn barod.”

— Roni