Elise Eekhout - Soft Golden Silence 02

This unique, recently made landscape painting named ‘Soft Golden Silence’ is part of the series 'Abstract Landscapes' by Elise Eekhout. In this artwork, the artist has captured the essence of a tempestuous summer landscape with sweeping strokes of acrylic paint and delicate touches of gilding. This blend of expressionism and impressionism evokes a deep sense of tranquility and contemplation. Eekhout paints to invite the viewer into introspection and to appreciate the beauty of subtle, layered textures.

Throughout the day, changing light causes the metallic details to shimmer and fade, transforming the painting as the hours pass.

- Technique: modern, high-quality acrylic painting and gilding on canvas, finished with shellac
- Dimensions: (height) 30 × (width) 40 cm
- Framed dimensions: (height) 33 × (width) 43 cm. The painting is ready to hang.
- Condition: new, painted in 2026
- Provenance: Certificate of Origin from Atelier Elise Eekhout – registered with 2 MAAL EE
- Shipping: insured, safely packed in a custom-made cardboard box and bubble wrap

About the artist:
Elise Eekhout is a visual artist whose work brings painting and language together in a subtle, layered dialogue. Inspired by literature, memory, and landscape, she creates works in which text and image coexist—sometimes clearly visible, sometimes barely perceptible. Letters function both as meaning and as form, dissolving as soon as they are read.
Using acrylics, silkscreen, and precious materials such as gold and silver leaf, Eekhout builds surfaces that respond to light and movement. As the viewer’s position changes, words emerge or disappear and landscapes shift between presence and abstraction. Each work reveals itself slowly over time.
Themes of memory, transformation, and humanity’s connection to nature run through her practice. Eekhout’s paintings invite quiet attention and reward prolonged viewing, offering collectors a contemplative work that continues to unfold long after it enters a space.