Elzbieta Larsten creates colourful and unique glass apples under the name Happy Apples. She brings together glass with unexpected materials such as rusty nails, feathers, silver and 24-carat gold. The result is playful, poetic works of art that radiate joy and capture the magic of nature. Nature is her main source of inspiration, and the contrast between the raw character of metal and the delicate shine of glass has become her signature.

Since 2013, Elzbieta has participated in a number of exhibitions, including at Galleri Movitz in Stockholm. Most recently, her Happy Apples were shown at the Affordable Art Fair in Stockholm this October — a setting where her vibrant, tactile glass pieces were warmly received. In 2016 she worked in Japan as Artist in Residence, concluding her stay with an exhibition in Sapporo, and she later returned to Japan for further shows in 2018 — one in Sapporo in October and another in Tokyo in December.

Elzbieta Larsten was born in 1968 in Poland and has lived in Stockholm since 1991. Her fascination for glass began in childhood — a deeply rooted inner curiosity. She sensed the magic within it: warmth, desire, challenge and creativity. Glass lives its own life, it plays and misleads — it doesn’t always turn out as imagined, yet sometimes it becomes even more beautiful. Her first encounter with glassblowing took place in Kosta in Småland in 2008, and from that moment her dream of working with glass grew into a passion that continues to evolve.