Between Storm and Stillness (2026) Original Acrylic Painting by Elise Eekhout

‘Between Storm and Stillness’ is inspired by the traces of a landscape that no longer exists. During the last Ice Age, large parts of what is now the North Sea were dry land. This prehistoric landscape, known as Doggerland, was inhabited by people and connected what are now Britain and continental Europe. As the climate warmed and sea levels rose, the land was gradually flooded and eventually disappeared beneath the sea.

I am fascinated by the idea that a landscape can exist in our imagination long after it has disappeared physically. The sea we see today carries the memory of a land that was once there, while beneath its surface traces of that earlier landscape remain.

In the painting, I was not trying to reconstruct Doggerland or depict a specific place. Instead, I wanted to capture the impression of a landscape — something sensed and remembered rather than precisely seen. The layered surface and silkscreened elements create fragments that emerge and recede, suggesting a landscape in the process of disappearing.

“Between Storm and Stillness” is therefore about landscape, time and transformation, but also about the fragile boundary between what remains and what is lost. It invites the viewer to imagine a landscape beneath the visible surface — a place that has disappeared, yet continues to exist in our collective imagination.

Materials used:

acrylics and gilding on line

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 80 x 60 x 2cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Organic
• Subject: Abstract and non-figurative