MOVEMENT AND REST"
"Eline de Jonge is good at watching. She takes a seat, somewhere in one of her favourite world cities, and then she observes everyday life. People nervously running back and forth, trying to catch a train, skating, doing business, talking, sauntering. Or cars tearing around flowerbeds. All these movements she captures on canvas. Although, capture is not the right word. They do not become literal ‘prints’, but translations.
In De Jonge's brain, the masses in the city become a kind of shadows of movements. The figures seem to be very artfully rendered with a built-in delay, creating for the viewer a synthesis of haste and contemplation, of movement and stillness. Her canvases exude a curious kind of tranquillity, while the surroundings are not exactly inviting. That tension is the strength of her work."
(Review Time Out The Hague)