For a more detailed resume, please click here to download the attached pdf file.

Eline de Jonge is an award winning, internationally exhibiting artist in Europe and the United States. She lived in New York as a student, where her fascination and relationship with this city started. Later she moved there again for another seven years. She was often caught up in the energy of the people and intrigued by the ever-changing neighborhoods. The effect of the bright and sunny days in any season of the year on the shadows and movement of the people and buildings adds more drama to that sensation.

Her fascination resulted in a series of paintings depicting scenes such as Grand Central Terminal, street scenes with moving taxicabs, the ice skaters in the Wolman rink in Central Park and many Cityscapes, mixing architecture and people in a dynamic way. 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 also led to numerous commissions from the United States, Europe and Hong Kong and her work is in private and corporate collections.

Since Eline has been living in the Netherlands now for the past two years, her favorite European city Paris has been added to her portfolio showing moving people in their urban environment.

Eline’s art education was mainly attained at the School of Fine Arts in Utrecht and Art History at Trinity College 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”.

Her work in the series of New York, Paris and Rome" will be on view in 2010 at various international art fairs and exhibitions (re: list of upcoming exhibitions below- click here to view)

Quote:

“Unlike most representational artists of the current decade, Eline de Jonge does not begin her own creative voyages from a particular visual prerequisite.

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

October 2008

Quote from “UIT Den Haag” November 2008 regarding her exhibition in Galerie Beeld:

“BEWEGING EN RUST”
Eline de Jonge kan goed kijken. Ze neemt plaats, ergens in een van haar favoriete wereldsteden, en vervolgens observeert ze het leven van alledag. Mensen die zenuwachtig heen en weer rennen, die een trein willen halen, die schaatsen, zaken doen, praten, slenteren. Of auto’s die om perkjes heen scheuren.
Al die bewegingen legt ze vast op doek. Alhoewel, vastleggen is niet het juiste woord. Het worden geen letterlijke “afdrukken”, maar vertalingen. De massa’s in de stad worden in De Jonge’s brein een soort schaduwen van bewegingen.

Het lijkt alsof de figuren heel kunstig met een ingebouwde vertraging worden weergegeven, zodat voor de kijker een synthese ontstaat van haast en contemplatie, van beweging en stilte. Haar doeken stralen een merkwaardig soort rust uit, terwijl de omgeving nou niet bepaald tot rust uitnodigt. Die spanning is de kracht van haar werk.