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Tall as a Spire 04

Elise Eekhout

2024 • Netherlands • Acrylic on Canvas

16 x 20 in

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Elise Eekhout

Netherlands

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Group shows participant
Experienced Artist
Covered by the Press
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Artwork details

Medium : Acrylic on Canvas
Other details : Artwork on cardboard. Artwork framed.
Dimensions : 15.7x19.7in

About this artwork

“Where are forests hot as fire,
Wide as England, tall as a spire”

These lines of verse from R.L. Stevenson inspired Tonke Draft to write a book. Elise Eekhout used this book as an inspiration to make this work of art.

"Even this lovely landscape, partly tamed by human hands, had something alarming about it. The ever-changing clouds and ceaseless wind seemed to make it move. The light was never the same, the shades kept changing. [...] The forests!… They burned out of the frayed gray clouds - red and orange, pink and gold... [...] They waved, the trees; they beckoned." (from "Towering and Miles Wide" by Tonke Dragt)

This colorful painting is made with acrylic on canvas with metallic details. The artist wrote the texts with oxidized copper and gold colored leaf metal.

Elise Eekhout

Netherlands

Credentials

Group shows participant
Experienced Artist
Covered by the Press
Favorited by galleries
Featured in gallery curations
Works on commission

« When you read, you travel to all kinds of places. I try to capture them on canvas. »

Elise Eekhout is a visual artist working at the intersection of painting and graphic design. Her practice explores the language of light, texture, and text. Letters fascinate her not only as carriers of meaning but also as abstract forms — beautiful shapes that dissolve the moment we begin to read them.
By combining traditional techniques with contemporary materials such as gold and silver leaf, she creates layered works that shift with light and perspective. Depending on where the viewer stands, words emerge or vanish, landscapes solidify or dissolve. Her paintings therefore never remain static: they are living surfaces, changing with time, movement, and light.
Recurring themes in her work are memory, transformation, and our relationship with nature. From abstract landscapes to text-based compositions, she seeks to evoke both wonder and reflection. Her art connects the fragility of human stories with the enduring rhythms of the earth, offering viewers a space for contemplation.

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