Always creative, Londoner Lucy McGrath initially wanted to become an illustrator, but during her time at Brighton University she realised it wasn’t for her. “It just didn’t click with me. What did click with me was making things,” she says. The university had a bindery, and she became fascinated with binding her own sketches into books. Later, while on holiday in Turkey, she took a workshop on Turkish paper marbling and fell in love with it. These two passions have come together in her own business, Marmor Paperie, which sees Lucy making her own marbled papers and using them to create bound notebooks, guestbooks and other products. As one of the few marblers in the UK, Lucy aims to show that this ancient craft can used in a thoroughly contemporary way.
Lucy McGrath