Jo Roets is a passionate sculptor, painter and mould maker. Art has always been a central theme in Jo's life and art practises are interwoven in her education and professional careers. She is currently exhibiting at various local and international galleries in South Africa, Spain and UK. Cracks and engravings on some works represent the ancient language of oracle bones and their relation to predictions, while the gold leaf on some works gives a nod to Kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold.

Jo Roets sculptures explore the concept and search for a connection to self, humanity, nature, and a connection to a spiritual world. The works touch on the need to be connected and the deep yearning search for connection when it is lacking. She calls her clay artworks 'light relief sculptures'. They are created from an air-drying clay medium which is rolled out until paper thin to create a delicate bass relief sculpture. Using unusual sculpting tools such as toothpicks and needles, the damp surface of the clay is scored with indents, holes and incisions.

Jo Roets’s signature, intricate and delicate clay sculptures use distinctive patterns and shapes inspired by the numerous visually and symbolically rich indigenous South African cultures. Her key objective is to celebrate the similarities found in diversity. Jo Roets's works exhibit intricate details with complex combinations of pattern and disorder to create a seemingly divergent uniqueness, yet, viewed holistically, each has a calming familiarity, a recognition of something intrinsically known and deliberate. Her work is born from a profound recognition that although our circumstances differ, essentially we all share a common humanity.