Born in 1999 in Culemborg in the Netherlands, Eline Boerma completed a BA in Fine Art at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht in the Netherlands in 2022 and is finishing her MA Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2026.

In her work Eline Boerma explores nature, the body, and the act of painting itself.

While rooted in the tradition of landscape painting, the paintings don’t aim to represent a specific place. The works appear to be in constant flux. Like wind, light, or water, they resist stillness. The body is present in the work—not as an image, but as energy and movement. Boerma often works on multiple canvases at once, layering quick, searching gestures with slower, deliberate passages. Fantasy and memories intermingle with art history. The abstract gesture becomes a way of relocating experience, moving between inner and outer worlds, and a way to seek freedom.

Boerma works through a cycle of fast, impulsive mark-making, followed by long periods of observation and reflection. Intuition, frustration, and impulse all play a role. Each painting becomes a passage—between thought and touch, memory and surface, presence and distance. It's a conversation (and sometimes argument) with the canvas—until the work stops talking.

Painting is a space for reflection and the works resist quick conclusions, they slowly reveal themselves. The landscape here is not a background—it’s something to move through, something to feel with your whole body.