About
Since Elin graduated from her MA in Design&Applied Arts at Edinburgh College of Art, she has been combining teaching with her own glass making practise. Her work includes small batch production for galleries in the UK, through one off bespoke projects for individuals and businesses. Elin combines traditional glass making techniques making contemporary designs and her work often expresses in simple but tactile forms in subtle colourways.
Elin’s work can be found installed on cruise ships, offices and enclosed garden spaces.
Inspiration
Elin draws inspiration from fond memories of her homeland Sweden, like ice fishing and cross-country skiing in the snowy mountains. Her work is also inspired by her early Scandinavian glass training at the Orrefors glass school and the minimalist forms they were thought, which still influence her work today.
Her colour palette is drawn from the Scottish landscape and also from her time spent in India, which has brought splashes of bright pink and gold into her work.
Her designs often reveal a sense of movement, capturing the inherent energy and fluidity of working with molten glass. Blowing glass is a constant battle against heat and gravity and many new ideas are born through observing the behaviour of glass whilst making other work. Developing bespoke work for clients also feeds into new creative ideas and does often lead to a new direction in the material.
About the Artist
Elin was born in the Philippines but was raised in the north of Sweden near the Lapland border.
At the age of 18, during art studies, she visited a glass studio and had the opportunity to give glassblowing a try. She was hooked!
Pursuing her new passion, she enrolled in formal training at the Orrefors Glass School in the famous region of Kingdom of Glass, south of Sweden.
Elin moved to Scotland in 2001 to study for her BA (Hons) in Glass at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA). This move was made possible by Elin being awarded the Swedish J.L Eklunds Crafts Scholarship. She was later awarded the Headley Trust Scholarship to continue her studies and did a MA degree in Applied Arts. Elin continued at ECA as Artist in Residence teaching undergraduates the art of glassblowing, whilst also building on her commission portfolio. Further training followed, including a Bullseye glass fusing class with Rudi Gritsch in San Servolo, Italy and master classes with Dante Marioni and Simon Moore at North Lands Glass Centre in Lybster.
In 2007 Elin was awarded the Shell Livewire, regional winner Entrepreneur of the Year Award which gave her the push to start her own business as a glass maker and designer.
She went on to set up her own glass blowing studio in 2010 and in 2019 the workshop finally found its forever home in the historic town of Dunblane. The studio was initially funded by the Scottish Arts Council, Clackmannanshire Council and Forth Valley Lomond LEADER.
