Freya Finnerty has had a life long interest in art and design.  She has studied fine art and graphics for many years and has received numerous awards for her work, among them The Weybridge Chamber of Commerce Award for Art and Design.  Freya has also won competitions that have allowed her work to be displayed in the Tate Modern.

Recently Freya has been investigating the idea of cityscapes and exploring ways of encapsulating both the bustling vibrancy and metropolitan diversity she feels they have to offer.  Through this she has travelled not only around England but to many European cities as well, artistically engaging with the classical architecture of Paris and Rome, the dreamlike shimmerings of Venetian waterways and the Arabic influences written through Turkey's temples and ruins.

Freya says "My aim is to sum up the beauty through my work. I like to emphasise particular components that go towards making up a city - the sky, the buildings, the river or the sea and then allow the culture and history, the sense of the place that I get from being there, to influence the colours and style that I use - it is always hard to use one canvas to represent an entire cultural reference but I prefer to think of my paintings as an expression of a place rather than a photographic record."

Freya's paintings focus on the ascethetics that communicate the deeper conventions of these urban landscapes, often creating the dreamlike quality of a fond memory that is coloured by the experiences had there.