Elise Eekhout - A Place to Linger

This unique, recently made landscape painting named ‘A Place to Linger’ is part of the series 'Abstract Landscapes' by Elise Eekhout. In this artwork, the artist has captured the essence of a tempestuous 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) 30 cm
- Framed dimensions: (height) 33 × (width) 33 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 is rooted in a background in graphic design, where composition, balance and color are essential elements. Eekhouts work brings painting and language together in a layered, nuanced dialogue. Inspired by literature, memory, and landscape, she creates paintings in which text and image coexist—sometimes clearly present, sometimes subtly embedded within the surface. Letters function both as carriers of meaning and as visual forms, dissolving as soon as they are read.
Working primarily with acrylic paint and silkscreen printing, Eekhout builds richly layered surfaces in which words are woven into fields of color, texture, and gesture. The texts do not dominate the image but become part of its rhythm, allowing the painting to shift between reading and seeing. As the viewer spends time with the work, different layers reveal themselves.
Themes of memory, transformation, and humanity’s relationship with nature recur throughout her practice. Eekhout’s paintings invite slow looking and quiet reflection, offering collectors works that unfold gradually and continue to resonate within a space over time.
Elise Eekhout graduated at St. Joost Art School, Breda, Netherlands (2002). Before focusing on painting, she worked for as a graphic designer and illustrator at the Dutch design studio 2 MAAL EE.

Selection of exhibitions:
2026 | ‘Diverse Visions, Common Values’, Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing, Germany
2026 | ‘Nous Voilá’, BaZtille, Zoetermeer, Netherlands
2026 | ‘Waleffe en Fête 2026’, Chateau Waleffe, Faimes, Belgium
2026 | ‘Small Formats’, Passage des Créatures, Cerney-la-Ville, France
2026 | ‘The World in the Embrace of Mila’, Int. Art Exhibition, Moubarak El-Mili Cultural Center, Mila, Algeria
2025 | Galerie Wind, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2025 | Artoui Concept Gallery, München, Germany
2025 | ‘Makersmomenten’, Kunstgarage Franx, Zoetermeer, Netherlands
2024 | Solo exhibition, Kiki at Franx, Zoetermeer, Netherlands
2024 | ‘Post Art’, L’esquisse Hôtel Culturel, Barbizon, France
2024 | ‘Laubengespräche’, Gallery RAUMdurchKUNST, Sindelsdorf, Germany
2024 | ‘Hanakotoba’, Flower Art Museum, Aalsmeer, Netherlands
2024 | ‘Please leave a ligth on’, Dunoon, Scotland, UK
2024 | Solo exhibition Route079, Zoetermeer, Netherlands
2023 | Gallery ArtFusion, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023 | Solo exhibition Kastanjehof, Westland, Netherlands
2023 | Solo exhibition Kunsthalte 6, Naaldwijk, Netherlands
2023 | ‘Schoonheid van imperfectie’, Hofboerderij, Wateringen, Netherlands
2022 | MicksArt Gallery, Emmen, Netherlands
2022 | Solo exhibition Gallery Bram van Baalen, Spijkenisse, Netherlands
2021 | Rajasthan Lalit Kala Academy, guest artist, Jaipur, India
2021 | Raja Ravi Verma Art Gallery, guest artist, Subharti University of Fine Arts, Meerut, India