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Continuing to strive for excellence in art has always been Eleinne's goal. She believes painting is a constant learning process; every painting a new set of experiences and discoveries. She tries to immerse herself in great art by constantly soaking in those on display at museums and galleries. Paintings by the likes of Zorn, Sergeant, and Cassatt continue to inspire and motivate her to reach for a certain quality in her paintings.

Eleinne credits much of her knowledge to the classical training she had while growing up in Manila. When she was only seven years old, her parents enrolled her at the Children's Museum and Library where she studied for eight years. It was here that she learned the fundamentals of light and shadow, value scales and colors, and also, the use of different media, from charcoal to oil. At age nine, she
started to dabble in oil paints. She even remembers painting "en plein air."

"The school was situated in the middle of a park and our teacher would always tell us to sit at the park picnic tables with our sketch pads and canvases. Some days we would go on painting field-trips and paint in oils."

In 1994, after relocating with her family to New Jersey, Eleinne joined local art organizations and started including her work in several juried shows. In 2002, she won a Grumbacher Gold Medallion at the Hudson Artists of New Jersey Regional Exhibit. In 2003, she was juried into Exhibiting Artist status at the Guild of Creative Art in Red Bank, NJ. Also in 2004 and 2005, she was included in juried shows of the American Artists Professional League exhibitions. In 2006 She was juried into the Easton Plein Air National Art Competition where she won two honorable mention awards. She is also a member of organizations like the Oil Painters of America and the Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast.

Nowadays, Plein Air painting takes up most of her time. She is very much active in juried and non-juried exhibitions and paint-outs in and around the East Coast.

"It is when painting outdoors that brings me back to those childhood days when painting was pure and comes from some place deep within."