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Carol Amy Roth is a self-taught woodturner who works at her 200 year old home in rural Vermont. Each of her bowls, vessels and natural edge vases is unique. In her old barn, each piece is turned from wood that others would most likely have rejected as either too gnarly or rotted to use.
After moving into her old farmhouse, she began collecting and using rustic antique tools while learning woodworking and cabinetmaking from early twentieth century books. In 1998 Carol found the antique treadle lathe that would introduce her to a love of woodturning. By early the next year, what began as a spark of interest became an absolute obsession. After reading, researching and experimenting over and over again, she began to turn and sell her bowls, vases and vessels.
Her work has been shown at The Southern Vermont Art Center; Stratton Arts and Fine Craft Festivals; KAOS Fine Art Gallery in Wilmington, Vermont; Frog Hollow in Middlebury, Vermont; the 2004 and 2005 “Envisioned in a Pastoral Setting” shows held at Shelburne Farms; and at the Gallery on the Green, also in Shelburne, Vermont.
“Wood-turning has brought together all of my strengths as an artist and let ...
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Motherhood, 2003
Woodworking (original artwork),
16 x 8 X 14 inches
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Gaea, 2002
Woodworking (original artwork),
14 x 5 X 10 inches
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Wounded Eagle, 2003
Wood Sculpture (original artwork),
14 x 10 X 18 inches
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Cupids Arrow , 2003
Wood Sculpture (original artwork),
7 x 12 X 6 inches
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