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Artist Statement for Carol Amy Roth
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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 me experience the wild ride of being totally immersed in the color, texture, form and spirit of each piece of wood. I never know what a piece will become until I've finished turning it. It is always a wondrous surprise. One of the most significant gifts my wood-turning has given to me and let me share with others, is the way each piece reveals the incredible beauty and secrets which lie within ‘just another piece of dead, rotted wood.’
"They are my offering - an elegy for each unappreciated tree on this earth.”
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Each of my pieces is signed and dated. They are priced by taking in account the technical difficulty necessary to complete the piece, wood species availability, size of piece and how rare and spectacular the grain of the wood is.
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