Roger Bennett is an Irish woodturner with a growing international reputation.

His Coloured Collection consists of a range of very distinctive one-off bowls and vessels, usually thin-walled and coloured with water-based woodstains. Roger works mostly in sycamore, whose pale, rather bland surface is an excellent canvas for his colouring techniques. He finishes the pieces with Danish oil, which creates a lustrous protective sheen.

Roger attempts to create a sense of lightness and delicacy in his bowls. His signature shape resembles an inverted cone, with the rim flaring out gracefully from a narrow base.

To create his Inlay Collection, Roger adds silver or gold, by filling hundreds of individually drilled holes with dots of sterling silver or 18-carat gold wire. The patterns created range from 'controlled random' concentrations to flowing lines based on the spiral.

Some of his newest bowls are in a more traditional concave shape: textured on the outside, and designed to fit comfortably in the hand, these are filled with points of silver which glow like constellations of stars in a night sky.