It is of Gods tree; a gift to us. In the selecting abandoned pre-cut trees as sculptural material. Antonius Roberts is clearly aware of the "already presence" of these objects.

Roberts is guided by two respects, one of the importance of nature and natural forms, and the other of the rich creative soil of his ancestral Africa.

While he draws on a wide and cosmopolitan knowledge as an artist, his link with Africa is more than skin deep. We are not talking about African artifacts as curiosity, but of those strong and highly advanced expressions of art that have rejuvenated the world's modern art movements.

Painter/Sculpture, Roberts seems to adopt discarded wood, rather than own it. Often he will be patient enough to lure out some character or spirit inherent in the wood, and with the wood's permission, add of him, a marriage that changes them forever. No longer firewood of for cooking the become ideas of fire, the food itself.

Roberts magic is not of idol making, but rather works of praise and homage to the one Creator and great seed maker.