Maravilha
Jo Roets is a passionate sculptor, painter and mould maker. Art has always been a central theme in Jo's life and art practises are interwoven in her education and professional careers.
She calls her clay artworks 'light relief sculptures'. The way Jo uses the medium is unique. The artworks are created from self-drying natural stone clay, which is rolled out to a paper-thin thickness to create delicate bass relief sculptures.
Using unusual sculpting tools such as toothpicks and needles, she scores the damp surface with indents, holes and incisions. Part of her creative challenge is to push the medium to its breaking point, encouraging it to warp in the process. This warping quality is unique to the each artwork and unplanned.