Elin Isaksson

Elin was grew up in the north of Sweden near the Lapland border where summers are warm and bright, and winters are long and dark.

At the age of 19, during art studies, she visited a glass studio and had the opportunity to give glassblowing a try. This was the start of a life long 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). She went on to graduate with an MA in Applied Arts in 2006 and continued at ECA as Artist in Residence teaching undergraduates the basics of glassblowing whilst building her portfolio of commissions. Further training followed, including master classes with Dante Marioni and Simon Moore at North Lands Glass Centre in Lybster.

Elin 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.

Her colour palette is inspired by the moody Scottish landscape and also by her time spent in India, which has brought splashes of bright pink and gold leaf 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.