Jhy Turley Photography

Max and Abi run a collaborative studio they built themselves in the garden of Max's family home. Hand carving, woodturning, natural dyeing and textile construction are the tools they use to explore and create sculptural objects using natural materials and hand tools.

Mia uses her background in design coupled with artisan skills she learnt as a saddler to design and make bespoke leather accessories.

Part of an on-going project to document designer makers.

After leaving a career in project management, Chris spent a year learning how to make furniture. 6 years on and he is now creating highly crafted bespoke commissions. Working on a new chair design, I watch as he starts to sculpt and refine pieces of walnut by hand that will become a unique chair. 

Part of an on-going project to document designer makers.

Working from her studio that is integrated in the North London home she built with her husband, Cecilie creates a select number of fashion item. Working with carefully chosen yarns and designs she has refined and perfected, each piece is crafted by hand. 

Part of an on-going project to document designer makers.

Master Upholsterer Alex Law has spent years practicing and perfecting his trade craft. Having written books and taught countless people his skills, he's now starting to design his own fabrics. Inspired by his home town of Faversham, the coast and the places he finds old furniture. His designs are bold and colourful using photography and digital manipulation to create them before they are printed onto fabric. He then restores his furniture finds and re-upholsters them with his new fabric.

Part of an on-going project to document designer makers.

Rose has spent her entire career working with fine porcelain clays. Inspired by her love of nature and the flora & fauna of the North Kent marshes, she designs and crafts various decorative and functional items. Her small studio is brimming with natural materials collected for inspiration or use in a future design, as well as work at various stages of completion. Her methodical approach makes it looks easy, but its clear that years of graft and practice are on show.

Part of an on-going project to document designer makers.

Michelle is a successful artist and designer that can boast of exhibiting places that include the Saatchi Gallery and the SOFA show in Chicago. So when visiting her I was surprised to find myself heading down an ally covered in litter leading to a derelict warehouse, through gates and a makeshift set of doors that lead me up a dilapidated staircase and into her studio.  

Michelle's work is the opposite of her work space. Bright, bold and colourful. Inspired by urban scenes and architecture. She talks me through her design process, precise mathematical translation of design to stencils and the hand pulling of each colour screen on to canvas.  

Part of an on-going project to document designer makers.

Rosalie does something quite unique. She take used coffee grounds, mixes them with a resin a compresses them under immense pressure to create her own raw material. She then takes this material, carves and shapes it into a bold, striking geometric block, before setting it in either gold or silver. What was once used coffee grounds is now an elegant yet powerful piece of statement jewellry. She does all of this from her tiny self built work shop in her garden. 

Part of an on-going project to document designer makers.

Mark Petty is a London based artist that uses screen printing to create vivid and thought provoking pieces of art. This series documents him printing his piece 'Mickey Mouse Emojis', for an upcoming exhibition.

Street Performers is an on-going project to document Street Performers, and their acts.