From Cape Town, South Africa, Jo Roets has a background in the film industry, where she worked as an artist in the art department – after matriculating in 1997 from Hoër Meisieskool Bloemhof, she furthered her studies and obtained a Diploma in Art Direction for film and television as well as an Advanced Diploma in Motion Picture Production Design.
She became a full-time artist in 2017.
Roets is a passionate painter, sculptor, and mold maker. Her works, which she calls ” light relief”, are created from an air-drying clay medium that is rolled out to a paper-thin thickness to creat bass reliefs. Then, using toothpicks and needles, she scores the damp surfaces with indents, holes, and incisions.
Roets’ influences come from many different South African cultures.