Lorna Freytag is a Scottish mixed media artist working with natural materials, including pressed flowers, paint and modular forms, to explore the relationship between nature and human systems of control. Originally from Edinburgh she is now based in Oban on Scotland’s west coast. Freytag studied at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen and her creative career has taken her to New York, Sydney, Dubai and London. Inspired by gardens, botanical collections, colour charts and symbolic visual languages, her work examines themes of preservation, identity, permanence and change. By collecting and pressing flowers, she transforms fragile organic materials into carefully structured compositions that exist between the living and the preserved. Recent series, including Colour and Contradiction, investigate the contrast between nature and synthetic perfection through over-sprayed, modular grids of pressed flowers, alongside areas left exposed to evolve naturally over time. While her work engages with ideas of control, categorisation and preservation, it remains visually joyful and immersive. Lorna invites people to enjoy the colour and structure whilst also taking time to notice what’s real beneath the surface.