“Occasionally, a landscape enchants with winding vistas, fragrant aromas, the company of loved ones, and dynamic light and weather conditions. Freya Douglas-Morris captures and enhances the magic of these atmospheres, inviting one to settle down to wonder and rest with her poetic paintings. While her landscapes are often catalyzed by her encounters with real places, they become surreal and inexact as they are transformed by the painter’s memory and imagination. Through her fluid paint application, the artist’s landscapes appear to be internally illuminated, pulsing with resonant rhythmic light.”

Kirsten Cave, associate director, Alexander Berggruen Gallery

“A painting by Freya Douglas-Morris begins somewhere between memory and alienation, the landscape at once all too familiar and yet estranged from her surroundings. Colour and depth work together to help burrow the viewer deeper into each scene. Despite being grounded with far reaching plants and trees, the paint bleeds and stretches across the canvas as if it could keep going, will never dry and hence never bring each sprawling reverie to a close. A disturbing, slightly distorted sense of scale reminds the viewer of when, as a child, everything seemed either too large or intangible…”

Olivia Fletcher, writer & editor

“Freya Douglas-Morris’ painting hints at a distant paradisiacal terrain. With subtle abstractions and glowing colours, she alludes to alternate worlds in which nature plays a prominent part…these scenes are at once familiar and foreign. Rich allusive environments steeped in suggestion. Both imagination and memory feed into creating these evocative scenes. With her playful spin on time and space, Douglas-Morris blurs the line between memory and myth. Day seeps into night. Spiritual and material worlds intersect”

Kate Neave, writer & curator

Freya Douglas-Morris studied Fine Art at Brighton University before receiving an MA from the Royal College of Art in 2013. She has work featured in ‘The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painitng 2’ the ‘100 Painters of Tomorrow’ and ‘Paper’ Saatchi Gallery. Douglas-Morris recently published a book to mark her 2023 solo show with Alexander Berggruen Gallery, NY, titled ‘This star I give to you’. She lives and works in London and has 2 children, Harper Rose & Felix.