JONO SMART & EMILY STEPHEN

Jono Smart and Emily Stephen are a Scottish based couple who live and work together. Jono works as a potter and Emily as a woodturner. They also combine efforts to make sculptural works and installations. Their studio is a showcase of the things they make and design, their home, their city and the landscape they live in. Both of them have always worked closely with nature. Emily, while working as an architect, designed simple timber buildings, that sat quietly in their landscape. Jono worked as a garden designer using trees, hedges, water, stone and flowers to create structured spaces. In their current work as a potter and a woodturner they depend upon nature for their material. They try to impose as little as possible upon their pieces, allowing the natural surfaces of wood and clay to be at the forefront of all they do.

"Both of us have worked closely with nature. Emily, while working as an architect, designed simple timber buildings, that sat quietly in their landscape. Jono worked with trees, hedges, water, stone and flowers when designing gardens. In our current work as a potter and a woodturner we rely on nature for our material. We try to impose as little as possible upon our pieces. Allowing the natural surfaces of wood and clay to be at the forefront of all we do.”