‘Passing on by’, Freya Croissant, 2025, Oil on canvas, 66 x 50 cm
‘In memory of Swanbourne Lake - Arundel’, Freya Croissant, 2024, Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm
Blue Shop Gallery presents
‘Remembering Places Once Trodden’
Freya Croissant
Gallery 2
14th May - 1st June 2025
PV Wednesday 14th May 6-9pm
72 Brixton Road, Oval SW9 6BH
Gallery opening hours: Wed - Sun | 11am - 6pm
Freya Croissant (b.1999) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Brighton. Working across painting, drawing, print, and textiles, her practice explores memory and observation - seeking out moments of emotional familiarity within the act of image-making.
Freya is drawn to the way certain places linger in the mind. Her work often begins with impressions of the outside world, but it is memory - how it softens and reshapes those impressions - that guides her. Through instinctive mark-making and an intuitive approach to colour and material, she creates quiet, reflective compositions that hold space for intimacy and tenderness.
Graduating from Kingston University in 2021 with a degree in Illustration and Animation, Freya spent six years living and working in London as both an artist and educator. In 2024, she relocated to Brighton, where she continues to develop her practice.
Freya has exhibited in group shows with Blue Shop Gallery and Weald Contemporary ahead of her very first solo show this May 2025.
‘Remembering Places Once Trodden’ is a contemplative body of work by Freya Croissant, tracing her enduring connection to the landscape of North Cornwall. Developed through a deeply personal lens, the series evokes a sense of quiet grief, interlaced with memories of childhood innocence, courage, and emotional resonance.
These paintings function as both meditative reflections and visual documents—bearing witness to the terrain that shaped Croissant’s formative years.
Central to her practice is an exploration of the interplay between colour and memory. Croissant is particularly interested in how natural landscapes become internalised, taking root within us emotionally, spiritually, and sensorially. Through painting, drawing, and textiles, she seeks to convey a sense of intimacy and tenderness, inviting the viewer into a dialogue with place, recollection, and belonging.
This approach is grounded in the act of remembering—not simply as a retrospective gesture, but as a means of reanimating the textures, atmospheres, and ephemeral qualities of a landscape held in memory. In doing so, Croissant captures the shifting light, ambient sound, and subtle emotional registers that persist long after a place has been left behind.
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Freya Croissant in her Brighton Studio 2025 by Blue Shop Gallery