Freya Marton is an artist and designer based in Richmond, London, and the founder of Black Lion Workshops, where she makes hand-painted lamps, furniture and murals.

With an interior designer for a mother, an architect for a grandfather and a stonemason for a great-grandfather, Freya feels very lucky to have grown up with such a rich frame of artistic, architectural and historical reference. As a teenager, she became obsessed with William Morris and taught herself repeat pattern by reworking his designs into her own. When the pandemic sent her home from studying Fine Art at Newcastle University, she began painting everything in sight, including her bedside lamps, which quickly developed into a practice of sourcing old lamps and giving them a new lease of life.

"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
William Morris

Today, Freya works from a small studio at the foot of her garden, built entirely from reclaimed and salvaged materials. Its surfaces are covered in gentle pattern, inspired by the natural world outside and by a medieval church in Cornwall she visited every year as a child. Her lamps are now turned to her own designs by independent wood turners and carpenters all a stone’s throw from her studio, and each takes weeks, sometimes months, to design and paint. They are art pieces in their own right.

Her lamps and designs have been exhibited at Farrow & Ball Northcote Road, Andrew Berwick’s Antiques on the Lillie Road, Craft Week 2026 with Christopher Farr Cloth, and will be at Sean Pritchard's Atmosfloric Emporium this November until Christmas.

Away from lamps, Freya is a multidisciplinary artist who has worked for Vogue, Dior, Versace, Ganni, Loewe, World of Interiors, Thom Browne and Ffern. She is currently making a film for the Year of the Normans with Invisible Dust and English Heritage, premiering in March 2027.