Roni Liberman

I am a practicing psychoanalyst who began woodworking about 17 years ago, making furniture. Seven years ago I began to turn bowls, platters, plates, boxes and works of art. The lathe is now my focus. I love watching the object evolve out of the largely unformed piece of wood. The tree from which the piece came and the figure or grain in the piece determine what the object will become.

I work with many different woods, both domestic and exotic, and some pieces are a laminated version of both. In addition to turning the wood, I have enjoyed embellishing and decorating pieces with crushed semi-precious stone, carving and coloring.