by Duncan Grant | 5 March 2019 | Blog
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...
by Duncan Grant | 21 February 2019 | Blog
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...
by Duncan Grant | 14 February 2019 | Blog
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...
by Duncan Grant | 30 January 2019 | Blog
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...
