Eleanor Flegg discusses the work of Roger Bennett, chosen by a panel of experts on behalf of the Crafts Council of Ireland to acknowledge consistency in design excellence
Woodturning is not an exact science. Wood is an organic and unpredictable material, subject to a range of irregularities, and prone to twist and turn of its own accord as it assumes a new shape
Many woodturners celebrate these qualities, the woodiness of wood, creating pieces that unashamedly declare that they originate in trees. Not so Roger Bennett, whose wooden bowls first appeared in 1994, remarkable both for their delicacy and for their colour, paper-thin flared vessels resting on their narrow bases as lightly as butterflies
