About the artist

“I'm interested in the visual languages we use to organise and classify the world, and how these systems meet with the unpredictability of nature.”

Lorna Freytag is a mixed media artist based in Oban on the north west coast of Scotland. Originally from Edinburgh Lorna studied at Gray’s School of Art and her work has taken her to New York, Sydney, Dubai and London.

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

Across modular canvases, oversprayed works and flag-based forms, she draws inspiration from colour charts, industrial palettes, botanical classification and symbolic systems to examine how nature is categorised, controlled and visually ordered.

Her work moves between the slow, traditional process of flower pressing and the more forceful acts of overspraying paint and arranging panels into precise grids and geometric forms, setting natural variation against human systems of order.

(For Lorna’s Illustration work and alphabet prints please visit www.lornafreytag.com)