Eleonora Stol (1946-2022) - Verbonden zielen

This work by Eleonora Stol is made with mixed media on canvas.

Eleonora's way of communicating is a sharp antithesis to our technologically impeccable world. Passion is the main theme of her work, which she develops with her vivid colors, full of life and light. It is possible to read love letters in her paintings.

About Eleonora Stol, also known as 'La Roja'.

Let death play violin with his cricket over the strings of gray roads in the howling wind. I turn the cold wind into Spanish fans.

A wink to the white doves to give their cheerful feathers to adorn the skin of my shy nymphs. Occasionally, I marvel at my fragile charcoal along my contours and walk with a butterfly on my walking stick, drawing a journey to a deeper level in the ultramarine celebration. There, I tie red ribbons around cold granite to harden it, and then I listen to how they breathe through singing.

I read to you, but without acronyms, I paint with challenging arabesques—voluptuous clouds dancing in pink lingerie beneath a paper moon of invented candlelight, where love dries up on an Eau de Vie de Mirabelle hanging on a clothesline at nipple height, amid loud slaps of round knees.

With my pictorial greed, I experience a restless world with paint, the liberal chalk blocks, coloring surprised brushes balancing in my hand. I take the risk of slips, extravagant scratches and contours, smudged mascaras, and scars from the occasionally unfortunately crumpled canvas, but it is a scream, an explosion. I open my dream suitcase, and her hands, which direct blobs, chalks, and impossible strokes into my handful of paint. As I hope, ending in beauty.

Here, art theory makes no sense, with its confusing map of the soul that the souls draw up. Art with a capital A does not belong on the operating table of stylized gentlemen and frowning psychologists. With me, the Sun and the Moon shine accessory on voluptuous chandeliers hanging on a rainbow.

This work by Eleonora Stol is an intense portrait that explores the boundary between figuration and inner imagination. With loose, almost sketch-like lines and subtle color nuances in brown, pink, and red, it creates a layered image in which two faces are visible: a masculine, stern, and penetrating head in the foreground, and behind it, a transparent, feminine profile that subtly shimmers through like a shadow.

The lines are unfinished, searching, and expressive—as if Stol aims to make the inner life and emotional complexity of the figures tangible. The use of empty space around the figures enhances the focus on their layered expression. The soft red-pink accents on the shoulder and arm give the work a certain physicality, while the contours of abstract shapes (including a heart-shaped form) emphasize the emotional charge.

The result is a poetic and psychologically charged work that centers on the relationship between man and woman, between identity and shadow image.

Viewing is, of course, possible. Additionally, we have our own in-house framing workshop, which is celebrating its 85th anniversary. Furthermore, we collaborate with restorers from the professional organization: 'Restauratoren Nederland'. If you wish to make use of this service, we would of course be happy to hear from you.