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. Drawing and painting exclusively from life , 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 oils, which she started to do at the early age of nine. 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 migrating 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 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. In 2007, she has been juried to participate in the important Salon International exhibition by the International Museum of Contemporary Masters held at the Greenhouse Gallery of Art in San Antonio,Texas.

D.Eleinne Basa lives in Jackson New Jersey with her husband and two children. She is currently represented by The Highlands Art Gallery in Chester, NJ, and Germanton Gallery in Germanton , NC

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

Selected Exhibits

• 2009 American Impressionist Society National Juried Show-Saks Gallery, Denver, CO.
• 2009 OPA Eastern Regional Show, Course Gallery, FL
• 2009 Maynard Dixon Country Invitational -Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts, Mt Carmel, UT "Guest Artist"
• 2009 Salon International - The Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art San Antonio, TX
• 2009 CM Russell Art Auction- CM Russell Museum,Great Falls, MT
• 2009 Richard Schmid Fine Art Auction -Live Auction Artist
• 2009 Paint North Carolina Invitational -Germanton, NC - Blue Water Media Award
• 2009 3rd Annual Wayne Plein Air National Juried Show, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
• 2008 "All Paintings Great and Small" The Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme CT
• 2008 Paint Annapolis , Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, Annapolis, MD - Gamblin Award of Merit
• 2008 Easton Plein Air Art Competition Exhibition, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD - Honorable Mention and Museum purchase by the Academy Art Museum for their Permanent Collection
• 2008 Salon International - The Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art, San Antonio TX - Jury's Top 50 Award
• 2008 2nd Annual Wayne Plein Air Juried Show, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA - 2nd Place
• 2008 Paint America Top Mini 50 Touring Exhibition
• 2008 Paint North Carolina Invitational , Germanton Gallery, Germanton, NC - Triad Framing Co. Award
• 2007 OPA Eastern Regional, The Weatherburn Gallery, Naples FL
• 2007 " All Paintings Great and Small " The Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT
• 2007 Paint Annapolis , Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, Annapolis, MD - Gamblin Award of Merit
• 2007 Easton Plein Air Art Competition Exhibition, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD
• 2007 " The Great American Landcsape", South Street Art Gallery, Easton, MD
• 2007 Salon International - The Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art, San Antonio, TX
• 2007 Raymar Art Online Exhibition finalist for April
• 2006 " All Paintings Great and Small" The Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT
• 2006 D. Eleinne Basa: Solo Exhibit, Barron Arts Center, Woodbridge, NJ
• 2006 Easton Plein Air Art Competition Exhibition: Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD - Honorable Mention Award
• 2005 “Women in Art”  Frederick Gallery. Allenhurst, NJ
• 2005 American Artists professional league Juried show at the Guild of Creative Art. Red Bank, NJ
• 2004 American Artists professional league Juried show at Louise Melrose Gallery. Frenchtown, NJ
• 2002 Hudson Artist of NJ, Inc. 49th Annual Juried Exhibit. Bayonne, NJ - Grumbacher Gold Medallion