Jon Roberts uses salvaged green wood to make pieces for the garden and the home. It is a slow process of uncovering and simplification. He gets to know the piece, looks, cuts and shapes with gouges and rasps. In the end, sometimes, a piece emerges with a life of its own. Recently, he has been exploring other materials such as metal and studio sweepings, and ways of joining them together.

It's not the things that are difficult to make but to put ourselves in a condition to make them