MADE BY LAND

My work explores the land from above. In ‘Made by Land’, an ongoing series, I focus on the marks humans leave on the land. Tracks, boundaries, and patterns shaped by work and movement. Often set in Scottish landscapes, but not always, these traces raise questions about their purpose, their history, and where they might lead.

Abstract painting with a large yellow shape, a black and red rectangular object, and white and black textured lines on a beige background.

LAST LIGHT BY THE OLD GATE

Abstract artwork featuring an aerial view of various colored and textured geometric shapes and lines, with some small depicted houses and a dark background area at the top.

HOMESTEAD

Abstract painting with geometric shapes and muted colors, featuring a soccer goal in the top left corner.

SLACK WATER

Abstract painting with geometric shapes and muted colors including beige, black, pink, green, and gray, with a diagonal line dividing sections and some textured patterns.

ROUGH TRACK CUTS

An abstract painting with various geometric shapes and earthy colors, framed and hung on a white wall.

BROKEN PIER & HOME

Abstract landscape painting of a mountain scene with rolling hills, trees, and a winding river in muted colors

MOONCAST

Abstract landscape painting with mountains, a river, and a sky, framed and hung on a white wall.

LEAVING THE ROSS

Abstract landscape painting with various geometric shapes, lines, and colors including dark blue, yellow, green, brown, and white, framed in a light wooden frame.

BEACH PIER INIVEA

Abstract landscape painting with geometric shapes, bold black outlines, and textured, muted colors including black, gray, beige, tan, orange, blue, and white. The artwork is framed in wood and signed by Freytag.

SALT FIELDS

Abstract mixed media artwork in a wooden frame with black, white, gray, and red colors, featuring geometric and organic shapes.

INLAND HAVEN

Mixed media artwork featuring a cracked asphalt road with a dashed white line down the center, overlaid with textured dark and light patches, framed in light wood.

CROSSING INVER

Abstract painting with geometric shapes and muted colors, including blue, black, white, yellow, green, and small red and pink accents.

INIVEA

Abstract geometric painting with large shapes in black, tan, gray, and green, along with a small blue square and black outlined squares, framed and hung on a white wall.

ULVA VILLAGE

Abstract painting with sections of mint green, beige, blue, and black, featuring a small brown rectangular shape and subtle geometric lines.

NEVER COMING BACK

Abstract painting with geometric shapes and textured surfaces, featuring dark tones, a small white square, and a red dot in the upper right corner.

CALM SHORE DARK LAND

Abstract landscape painting in a wooden frame featuring stylized hills, a body of water, and minimalist geometric shapes.

LOOKING NORTH WEST

Abstract painting featuring pink, gray, dark blue, and beige color blocks, with black line outlines and some textured details.

INVER

Abstract landscape painting with gray, black, white, and green areas and small orange dots in a wooden frame.

ENTRANCE

Abstract landscape painting with shades of blue, gray, and white, framed in light wood.

WINTER SHORE BREAKING

Abstract painting with geometric shapes and bold colors, including blue, black, beige, and pink, framed in light wood.

DEEP WATER INLAND

Abstract landscape painting with pastel colors and simple shapes framed in wood.

RIVER WITH THREE FIELDS

Abstract landscape painting with large gray shapes, blue water-like area, black and white lines, and small pink accents.

THE WIND BLOWS THROUGH THIS PLACE

Abstract painting with geometric shapes and bold colors, including blue, yellow, black, gray, and pink areas, with lines and textures.

WHEN THE WATER COMES

Abstract painting with various geometric shapes and colors, including green, gray, black, peach, blue, and red, arranged in a flowy composition.

A RIVER DIVIDES US

Abstract landscape painting with flowing lines and blocks of muted colors, including blue, green, black, gray, and a small red square, framed and displayed on a white wall.

FOUNDLAND

Abstract painting featuring sections of a landscape with a red building, beige hills, gray and black fields, and white lines on dark background.

SHIABA

Large abstract painting on a horizontal canvas depicting a landscape with various geometric shapes, pathways, a river, and patches of greenery, featuring colors like black, green, blue, white, red, and beige.

SCHWARZWALD

An abstract map with colored regions, contour lines, and multiple geometric shapes, framed on a white wall.

BELNAHUA

‘Made by Land’ - a short film exploring how trail running shapes my art, where movement through landscape becomes memory, and memory becomes mark.

EVERYWHERE

LEADS

EVERYWHERE

I love to run through unfamiliar cities. Getting lost is the only way to find what you didn’t know was there. Urban landscapes form intricate, often organic patterns of paths and geometry that create a textured, vibrant terrain. Life is full of repetition; in my work, I try to break that cycle. Running to get lost aligns with my urge for spontaneity — though there’s a strange comfort in knowing that everywhere leads everywhere, eventually.