Cats, chaos and small universes. Freja Erixån’s winding, distinctive and distinctly naïve visual language feels right at home at Fine Little Day. Over the years, her playful motifs have found their way onto trays, posters and textiles – for both children and grown-ups.
Freja Erixån (born 1990) is a visual artist and illustrator based in Malmö, Sweden. She studied design at HDK – Academy of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg, where she completed her master’s degree in 2018. Her work has been exhibited at, among others, Liljevalchs Vårsalong in Stockholm (2025), Inkonst in Malmö (2022), Galleri Thomassen in Gothenburg (2021), Stenungsunds konsthall (2020) and Sandvikens konsthall (2016).
She has published two graphic novels, Över min döda kropp (2019) and Bakom begäret bredvid behaget (2021), and in 2026 she made her debut as a children’s book author and illustrator with the picture book Vi gräver.
Freja primarily works with oil pastel, charcoal, watercolour and acrylic. She lets animals, people and strange little worlds tangle together – with humour, warmth and a touch of chaos. In an earlier interview with Elisabeth, Freja shares more about her artistic practice.
Q: Did you always know that you wanted to be an artist professionally? Do you come from a family of artists?
A: My mother and my older sister are both artists, and I always knew I wanted to work as an author and with something in the artistic field even though I'm very grateful and surprised every day that it's actually possible.
Q: What inspires that incisiveness humor that we see in what you do?
A: I don't know, I started using irony early in life and in my imagery as a kind of tool to capture emotions around and to grasp situations. People often laugh at my most serious sides, drawings or texts, I have been told that it depends on my tone.
Q: What do you think are the opportunities and challenges of being an artist?
A: It’s a challenge to continue regardless of the response, and you often put a lot of time in projects that generates small results, not the least financially. But to live on what you create, draw, think and write beats everything for me.
Q: What would you do if you had unlimited cash?
A: I would buy a mansion on the countryside and use half of it as a studio and the other half to raise my dogs and my children.
