Blog Archive
Liberty update: Book launch and fabric peek
Visit my gallery Last night Liberty launched their brand-new bi-annual publication The Liberty Book at their flagship store and I was invited with the other winners - we appear in the book - along with the great and the arty. More about the book...
Liberty production process and sneak preview of ‘strike offs’
Visit my gallery Liberty have just sent through these photos from our visit to the factory, near Milan. Great shots of the commercial print process on a massive scale... And here we are - me and the other three winners - with the print samples...
Drawing inspiration from the Thames
Visit my gallery A beautiful sunny day with a Force 9 gale battering the prom seemed like the perfect backdrop for a nautical themed Explore and Draw session on the magnificent, retired lightship Light Vessel 21 - LV21 - now moored at St Andrew's Quay in...
Day return to Milan: From design to Liberty fabric
Visit my gallery Early on Tuesday last week, I flew out from Gatwick with my three fellow #Liberty Open Call winners to Gorla Minore, near Milan, to visit Olonia Stamperia, the factory where Liberty prints many of its fabrics. Things were about to get real. We were...
Soundscapes
I wasn't going to post again until after my visit to the Liberty factory in Italy, later this month but I wanted to share these short 'soundscapes' with you. They were made by talented Carlisle-based singer, songwriter and musician, Ian Kirton, using my pictures and...
Nursery tales and ink drawings
Visit my gallery I find children's rhymes quite fascinating - they are still one of the few things that pass down through the generations by word of mouth. Before modern media and even widespread literacy, these rhymes told stories, shared humour and conveyed ...
Liberty Open Call
Visit my gallery In September 2018, Liberty London, the designer department store, invited artists and designers to upload images of their work to Instagram using #LibertyOpenCall to compete for the chance to have that design used in Liberty fabrics. There were over...