🌷 Dutch Heritage – Tulip Vase
Series: The Quiet Bloom
Oil on panel | Digitally scanned Giclée print
Scan: 40(h) x 60(w) cm | Max print size: 80 x 120 cm
This still life quietly honors the elegance of Dutch culture and the artist’s own journey of integration into the Netherlands. A blue-and-white tulip vase, steeped in tradition, stands proudly on a dark wooden ledge. Beside it lies a bouquet of rare candy-striped tulips—hard to find, deeply cherished. Tucked inside the wrapping is a folded local newspaper featuring Gebouw A (Building A), a national monument nestled in the forest near the artist’s home in Radio Kootwijk.
This painting is not just a study in form and color, but a symbolic welcome—an embrace of place, tradition, and belonging. The candy-striped tulips are the artist’s personal favorite, selected not just for their beauty, but for their rarity and joyful spirit. The paper, the monument, the forest trail: each element is part of her lived experience, subtly woven into the scene.
The atmosphere is timeless and rooted. In a home, this piece adds a sense of elegance, Dutch heritage, and quiet presence—perfect for refined interiors, gallery walls, or rooms that blend culture with calm.
Over de Kunstenaar — Leone Tonkinson
De artistieke reis van Leone Tonkinson heeft altijd het pad van het licht gevolgd. Geboren onder de open hemel van Zuid-Afrika en nu schilderend in Nederland, verkent haar werk de stille dialoog tussen licht en vorm — een benadering die zij Solar Realism noemt.
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