Creatives: Jonathan Turton

About Me

What are you listening to?

Currently listening to Slim Harpo and Happy Mondays. Unlikely yet magnificent bedfellows.

Who makes you laugh?

Bob Mortimer. I recently saw a sketch parodying nature enthusiast Ray Mears, where he made a fire in the woods by rubbing his loafers together. Incredible.

What are you reading?

‘Who Let The Dogs In?’ by Molly Ivins. She’s a political columnist based in the US, who enjoys skewering the dangerous bastards they let in the White House. Always with a wry humour, though.

Where's your favourite place to be?

Treaddur Bay, Anglesey. I’ll either be fishing off the rocks, taking photos or drinking a welsh ale with my auld man. All favourable circumstances.

Which object could you not live without?

In order to function as an adult I have to make big, long lists of things to do. So my notebook.

What would you like to see invented?

Nail clippers that catch nails- or do they have them already?

What idea or piece of work do you most wish you had come up with?

The Wire. If aliens come down and want know how we lived at the beginning of the 21st century, they should watch that. 

  

If you could be any character in any book who would you be?

I’d probably go for Atticus Finch- the dad in To Kill A Mockingbird. A man of integrity, intelligence and warmth. Good traits, them.

Who's your favourite artist?

Not sure you’d call him an artist, but Nick Broomfield. Documentary filmmakers should always go for the jugular.

Our Mission:

We are Küla: a collective of multi-disciplinary, independent creatives, working together to deliver amazing results.

Sometimes being a freelance can feel like you are living in a Smiths song. The self-doubt, the isolation, the shyness that is criminally vulgar and the occasional vicar in a tutu. This can stifle the joy of being creative and can teeter you on the edge of being a right miserable git. Küla was born out of shared packets of crisps, disgruntled moaning and, most of all, out of a yearning to be better. We wanted to be better at being the creative, unique, surprising, inspired individuals we fundamentally were. Our frustrations fed our imaginations and we got excited thinking of the kind of work we would love to be part of and the kind of gang we would want to do that work with.

We asked ourselves, what if we collected together freelancers who felt like us and everyone brought their own style and perspective to a brief? What if our creatives were carefully selected, assessing portfolios and working styles to determine how suited candidates are to the way we collaborate - no tyrants, no passengers. What if were all given opportunity to creatively lead a project depending on our suitability to the work? What if our aim was to deliver beautiful, effective results for our clients and both sides enjoyed the experience? What if we were honest, communicative, encouraging, enthusiastic, inspired, approachable and very proud of our work?

What if we called our collective Küla?