New creative talent has always been captured and nurtured throughout Liberty’s trading history. Promoting innovative and fresh aesthetics is central to Liberty’s ethos blending the modern and antique in a unique environment.
The most recent inauguration of this artistic vision is the specially commissioned mural by artist Hugo Dalton, which joins the Lower ground floor to the First floor of the Eastern Staircase. It is a visual focal point within one of the stores main entrances from the onset communicating Liberty’s history as not just a store but a rich artistic emporium.
Hugo Dalton’s unique commission celebrates the urban existence of Liberty itself. Thin black lines of an ancient vine combine with the wooden features that are prominent throughout the Tudor House. Electrical wires form patterns against a backdrop of neon orchids from which industrial elements protrude. Raining down over delicate petal forms and clean lines of industrial machinery, Swarovski crystals twinkle lending an ethereal quality to the mural and quirkily the silhouettes of two London tourists repeat throughout the interlinked industrial and natural forms.
Dalton’s Liberty mural allows the viewer to be transported beyond the immediate confines of the space. The concurrence of industrial and natural elements anchor the mural in reality but the manipulation of line, colour and detailing create an ethereal and dramatic visual story.
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