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Glassblower & Multidisciplinary Artist

Hi, my Norwegian name is Elin, or Nokuzola, among my Zulu speaking
friends, or Helena by my friends from Mozambique. Welcome to my organic art universe!”

Multidisciplinary Norwegian artist Elin Hauklien has a diploma as certified glasscraftman/glassblower, and she has a Bachelor in Childcare and Welfare. Known for her creativity and someone who empower others through creativity, the name Creativity Booster came to life defining her artistic character.

During the last 14 years Elin has devoted her life to volunteering while living in Namibia and South Africa and while travelling in several African countries. In Namibia Elin Hauklien was the Project Manager for MOT Namibia (a preventative school program) and in South Africa, she has been doing production
design related tasks related to video production, photography and display design and training for an international volunteer organization. Elin Hauklien has during the last two years been trying to establish herself as a freelance multidisciplinary artist, with the intention of supporting her simple living and volunteering abroad.    

Her art style has been shaped and refined through the influence of local and international artists and creatives she has collaborated with during those years till now. Elin loves people, diverse cultures and languages and she has a craving to understand people on a deeper level.

Through a vibrant imagination and intuitive processes, she uses different medias to tell stories through raw lines, patterns and symbolic, animated characters. To Elin, listening and observing our own life and the life of others is essential to having empathy for others, and to build closer connections with others and to increase creativity.

Process

Organic & Intuitive

'Rough, like life and earthy like the soil, to keep us feel grounded.'

Elin Hauklien defines herself as a modern expressionist in the way she expresses different emotions and stories about life with earthy and emotional undertones and overtones.

Elin often creates concepts related to observations and expressions of human emotions, the conditions of people’s life and motivations for living. Contemporary artists like, Brazilian artist Ciro Fernandes, Mozambican artist Ezequiel Mabote, South African artist William Kentridge, Yayoikusama and classic artists like Edvard Munch, Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso are among those who motivate and inspire her art.

Symbolic and abstract, black and white or oversaturated combinations, pop art inspired cartoonish animals, motives with humorous undertones, they all describe how Elin expresses her concepts. From childhood Elin has loved patterns and textures and being exposed to the use of patterns in Africa, she has integrated patterns as part of her signature mark. She likes her art to feel raw, hand drawn and organic. Rough, like life and earthy like the soil, to keep us feel grounded.

Besides working with woodcut prints, Elin expresses herself through mixed medias, glass, digital art, acrylic paint, water color and often times with layers of different textures physically or on a digital canvas.

Woodblock print

Unique Prints

Each of the prints will look slightly different and thereby each of them are unique and numbered according. Some of the prints are developed further with water color and oil pastels. These are mono prints, as there is no art piece alike them.

During the years Elin was working with preventative programs, like MOT, for young people in Norway and Namibia, she used art and creativity as ways to connect with and to motivate young people. Storytelling, role plays, drawing, painting, playing and team activities. They have all been tools she has used to encourage young people to express themselves, create positive goals and deal with difficult emotions.

Elin says: I would like to share all what others have shared with me, striving to be a Creativity Booster for others. I don’t want to be a person that is only able to empathise with and understand other people, I want to be a motivator, motivating others to create, being a Creativity Booster.

International

Collaboration

Interaction and collaboration fosters learning, creativity growth and wisdom. Throughout decades Elin has been interacting closely with international and local creatives, designers and artists. This photo was from a collaboration with artist Ezequiel Mabote.

During the African Glass Safari 2024, arranged by Southern African Glass, Tshwane University of Technology and Smelt Glass I got the chance to collaborate with several local and international experienced glass artists, like Emíl Cováč, Sarah Begg, Lothar Böttcher, Thato Kokwana and Stephen Mofokeng.