Artist

Lorna Freytag

Colour & Contradiction

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Place without Possession

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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 pressed flowers, paint and natural materials, she creates structured, modular works that explore colour, visual languages and the human impulse to organise and control the natural world.

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Pressed flowers on canvas panels, over-sprayed with acrylic paint. Made up of 2 modular panels.⁠ ⁠ 62 × 41 cm⁠ ⁠ (Part of the beauty of this piece is that the colours of the unsprayed section of flowers will change and fade further over time.)⁠
‘Drift’ 25x75cm Pressed flowers on canvas oversprayed with acrylic paint (dark navy, blue and white). #contemporaryart #conceptualart #pressedflowers #colourstudies #naturalvssynthetic
'Descent'⁠ ⁠ 25 x 75cm⁠ Pressed flowers on canvas over-sprayed with acrylic paint.⁠ Made of three panels
One of the pieces from my series ‘Place Without Ppssession’ reimagining traditional flags (both national and nautical) using delicate, hand-pressed flowers. I love that contrast. Using something natural and fragile to recreate symbols th
'Yellow and White'⁠ ⁠ Pressed flowers on canvas over-sprayed with acrylic paint.⁠ 25cm x 50cm⁠ (made up of two square panels)⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #contemporaryart⁠ #conceptualart⁠ #botanicalart⁠ #pressedflowers⁠ #colourstudies⁠ #materialpractice⁠ #artprocess⁠ #inst
Perfect light in Lisbon. “Colour Field - Red” 50cm x 50cm Pressed flowers on canvas oversprayed with acrylic paint. (made up of four panels) #contemporaryart #conceptualart #pressedflowers #colourstudies #naturalvssynthetic processbas