Bowls, candlesticks, lamps, sculptures, fruit — all of them hand-turned in a variety of woods by Llewellyn Emery, and all of them included in his first exhibition since 2001, which opens this evening at the Masterworks Foundation's Rose Garden Gallery in the Botanical Gardens.

Mr. Emery is well-known for the beauty of his Bermuda cedar work, and there will be some very fine examples of this in the collection, including a globe of the world, but during the eight months of preparation for this exhibition he has also experimented with many other woods, including fiddlewood, poinciana, cyprus, avocado, ebony and olivewood, as well as wood laminates. Each has its own characteristics, and some proved easier to work with than others — with poinciana being the most difficult because, in its dried state, it was "corky".

"Fiddlewood was the most pleasant surprise, because it dries as a very hard wood which is lovely for turning, and great for staining and dieing," Mr. Emery says. "I am so proud of the natural-edged, fiddlewood bowl, stained green with an aniline dye. The bark edge is natural contour of the brown bark of the tree."

Unlike paint, analine dye does not obscure the natural grain of the wood, although in the case of fiddlewood, which the artist describes as "bland" and lacking in the natural swirls of Bermuda cedar, it does enhance visual interest.

A section of the show is entitled 'Fabian Collection', so-called because the items were made from scavenged wood post Hurricane Fabian.

Renowned for his Bermuda cedar apples, Mr. Emery will surely not disappoint his fans this time around, for he has created a collection of about 17, each of which is different in colour, texture and wood grains.–"That has been a lovely extra treat for me to do because it has been so inspirational," he says. "I kept getting ideas for another colour or style, and if I had time I probably would have done 25!"

Even so, the pièce de résistance for this artist is the revolving Bermuda cedar globe with stand which he created especially for a show marking the Craft Market at Dockyard's twentieth anniversary earlier this year. Entitled 'Bermuda cedar is another world' and immaculately executed and finished over countless hours, Mr. Emery calls it his "pride and joy".

"I had the idea in my mind for so long, then it was a case of, 'This is the perfect opportunity, and if it is still around after the craft show I will make it the centrepiece of my Masterworks exhibition'."

Asked if he would be consider working in other materials, Mr. Emery said he hadn't ruled it out.

"It is just that there is so much to do in wood that I haven't gotten around to other things."

Which means, of course, that his favoured art form will be around for a long time to come.