Eolake [eee'-(o)-laik] Stobblehouse is a Danish artist/photographer and writer. Born in 1963 in the small town of Karreb?ksminde, Denmark, his father was a house painter, and his mother an artistically inclined bohemian from Sweden. He studied a number of different kinds of art, including photography, and won titles and medals for his photographic work. An artist and draftsman, Stobblehouse has also written science fiction short stories for American publications, as well as articles about art and Macintosh computers for various magazines.
Eolake Stobblehouse made up his own name and claims the following etymology:" 'Eo' means the earliest or the original of something. 'Lakin' or 'Laik' comes from old English 'to play' or 'move around', and further back from old Norse, 'toy' or 'baby.' Stob means, in old Scottish dialect: (1) a stick, broken off twig, (2) a stump, the remainder or remnant of a rainbow. Stob-thatch is roofing consisting of broom or brushwood laid across the rafters. ... So if we want to get poetic about it, Eolake Stobblehouse would mean 'The original child, son of the rainbow, living with the spirit of play in a thatch-roofed home.'"
Last updated: January 05, 2009.
