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Artist Bio

Elin Hauklien (1979) grew up in Lillehammer, a small town in Norway. Always
looking up to the starry night in winter time and thinking about the deep questions of life. With a zeal to create from her youth, Elin achieved her diploma as a Glass Craftwoman in 2001.

A deep passion for people and purpose lead her to use art in working with children and youngsters in Norway and Namibia. That is why beside making art Elin uses most of her time on volunteering. Assisting with design and creative tasks in Southern Africa for more than a decade has broaden her understanding of art in a cultural perspective and her understanding of art as a communication and therapy tool.

Elin express complex emotions through simplicity, and through various mediums, included, upcycled glass and woodcut. Telling stories using raw lines, patterns and
symbolic characters.

“Rough, like life and earthy like the soil, to make me feel grounded”.

Many of her concepts relate to observation of life and human emotions. Contemporary artists like, Ciro Fernandes, William Kentridge, Yayoi Kusama and Edvard Munch has been sources of inspiration.

Artist Statement

A thirst for wisdom, understanding of our inner selves, understanding of what one see, in nature and between one another, motivates Elin’s concepts. A passion to cultivate imagination, expressing serious observations of life and deep emotions in the most simple way.

“You first need to understand yourself to be able to reach the soul of another person.”  

A signature mark of Elin’s style is the use of raw lines creating organic patterns and shapes, and her use of simplified animated characters. Elin expresses herself through a range of different mediums and in her latest works she has connected with her artistic glass roots, experimenting and using up-cycled glass mosaics combined with painted woodcut.

Elin has a core belief that givers are the most happy people. She wants to make art to give, to cultivate imagination and empathy, being a skill-sharer and one that encourages to seek understanding.

“What is the feeling of being touched by another soul? Only the one who explores
will know.”

Exhibitions

  • 2024 Gallery Albin Up, Oslo, Norway
  • 2024, Tswane University of Technology, South Africa
  • 2024 Association of Arts, Pretoria, South Africa

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.

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.

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 Elin 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.