Ella Freire

Ella Freire is a screen printing artist, who has been working out of her London based studio for the last 14 years. She has been inspired by classic cars, vintage cameras and a huge collection of 60’s and 70’s bus and airplane luggage tags, train and bus tickets.

A few years ago she had the time to delve back in to her large collection of Pan Am luggage tags with their wonderful graphics and iconic designs from the “Golden Age” of travel. She had always wanted to do really large prints of these, which have always appealed to her because of their simplicity and bold colours.

Ella has replicated the tags as closely as possible to the originals with their bright colour palette. The artwork is printed on 100% cotton archival paper, then mounted on to card and cut out to shape, including the perforated edges, punched hole through a reinforced tab overlaid on the print. The labels are printed in a very limited editions of 25 for each of the large and small sizes.

Ella is licensed by Pan Am Brands to create these limited edition prints. Her highly sought after artwork is held in collections all over the world and also displayed in the Pan Am Museum Gallery in New York. 

She has also been recently licensed by American Airlines to create the wonderful vintage TWA luggage tags as well as the iconic Braniff International which are now added to her collection and shown for the first at the 20126 The Other Art Fair in Chicago.

Ella has exhibited at the prestigious Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2024 and has been shortlisted for this year’s exhibition, 2026, in London.

Ella is represented exclusively in the UK by Air Contemporary in London; her work is also available at J. Nuñez Gallery in New Jersey, and AZart Gallery in Woodstock, New York, USA.