Artist

Lorna Freytag

Botanical Casts

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Place Without Possession

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Colour & Contradiction

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About Lorna

A woman with short brown hair sitting on a wooden stool in front of a white wall with fabric art pieces hanging on it.

Lorna Freytag is a Scottish mixed media artist based in Oban on the north-west coast of Scotland.

Working with natural materials, paint, plaster and pressed flowers, she creates structured, modular works inspired by botanical specimens, classification systems, colour charts and the ways we collect, preserve and organise the natural world.

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Moving from pressed flowers into botanical casting and starting to see where this new work might take me. I love how different the botanical details are in the black jesmonite versus the natural plaster. ⁠ ⁠ #botanicalart #basrelief #contemporaryart
Photo from late summer. 🌸 ⁠ I’m definitely looking at flowers differently since I started casting them, noticing shapes and textures more. Although sometimes I still just choose them because I love the colours. ⁠ ⁠ #botanicalart #flowers #arti
New work: 'Deconstructed - Nettles'⁠ Nine casts made from real nettles, cropped and repositioned across a grid. The casting has picked up so much detail that they almost look like they could still sting you. ⁠ ⁠ #botanicalart #basrelief #nettles #con
Back at one of my happy places...Glasgow Botanic Gardens. 🌿 ⁠ I spent so many rainy days here with my kids when they were toddlers, escaping the Glasgow weather in the warm glasshouses. Lovely to come back now and see it through slightly different e
So excited to have this piece selected for this years ING Discerning Eye @discerningeyeorg at London’s Mall Galleries in November 😁 ‘Becoming’ Pressed flowers on canvas oversprayed with white acrylic paint 31x41cm 🗓️ The Discern
From flowers to plaster… ⁠ I love this part of the process, arranging all the individual flowers before casting them, then seeing which tiny details and imperfections have been captured in the finished piece. ⁠ ⁠ #botanicalart #pressedflowers