Eline de Jonge is an internationally exhibiting artist in Europe and the United States. Her work is in numerous private and corporate collections, including the headquarters of Loyens & Loeff in Amsterdam.

Her fascination with her favorite city New York, resulted in the series of oil paintings “Shadows New York” and have been recently extended with “Shadows of Paris and Rome”. Her New York paintings depict scenes such as Grand Central Terminal, street scenes with moving taxicabs, ice skaters in Central Park and the New York Stock Exchange. The focal point of her work is from height and distance, showing dramatic shadows and is created with oil or mixed media on large canvases. Her successful New York series has led to many commissions from the United States, to Europe and Hong Kong as well as Cape Town.

Eline has had numerous exhibitions including those at the Weesper Gallery in Amsterdam, The Housatonic Museum in Bridgeport, The Westport Art Center, The Greenwich Art Society and showing her work in the Singer Museum in Laren, the Netherlands. She won several awards including a one-person show at the Westport Art Center. Her art education was attained at the School of Fine Arts in Utrecht and Art History in Cambridge, U.K. She also developed and teaches an art curriculum for children, “Paint-a-masterpiece” and was recently the co-author of the art book “Lessons of Enzo Russo”.

“Unlike most representational artists of the current decade, Eline de Jonge does not begin her own creative
voyages from a particular visual prerequisite, then zig-zag her way through a number of conceptual, desultory
observations, conveniently proffering clues to vague and obscure philosophical notions.

Rather, she moves exactly in the opposite direction. Eline de Jonge begins with one clear cut concept, that
she may find visually stimulating, than, following her questing nature, she seeks a way to express that concept
through the vocabulary of her chosen medium.

For Eline de Jonge, painting is manifestly an act of visual poetry. But it is also an act of passionate involvement
with a creative idea. The intriguing ambiguities of cast shadows, like in Giorgio de Chirico’s work, or the energizing
power of motion and speed, speak eloquently of a distinct fascination with her own era as well as pointing to a
daringly creative personality.”

Enzo Russo
Apprentice of Giorgio de Chirico
University of Florence, Italy