Gozo-based artist Jackie Roberts has just returned from Scotland after the successful opening of her second solo exhibition The Nature of Metal.

The exhibition runs until April 29 at the award-winning Dawyck Botanic Garden in the Scottish Borders. Dawyck is a historic arboretum and specialist garden of the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh.

The exhibition of over 30 works in metal reflects elements of the character and diversity of the botanic garden alongside the artist’s influences and inspiration from Gozo, Scotland, Africa and New Zealand.

The exhibition will then tour to Logan Botanic Garden, near Stranraer in the south-west of Scotland from May 4 to July 1.

Originally from the UK, Roberts creates art in metal from a small workshop in Għasri.

Before moving to Gozo in 2001, she learned artistic metalwork with the ‘Arcangels’ group at Edinburgh’s Telford College, pursuing her passion for metal after a long professional career.

Since Roberts’ first solo exhibition, Go Fish, at the art..e Gallery, Victoria, in 2007, she has collaborated in six successful joint exhibitions, including Masks and Mirrors at the Citadella Centre for Culture and the Arts in 2009, and contributed work to numerous collective exhibitions in Malta and in Scotland.

Last year, Roberts was awarded a prize by the Malta Crafts Council for her innovation and creativity.

In addition to her work, the exhibition showcases work by two other Gozo-based designer/makers with whom she often collaborates: textile designer Pat Holtom and jeweller Rachel Robinson.

To view more images from the exhibition, visit Jackie Roberts’ Facebook profile or e-mail her at robertsj@maltanet.net.

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