🌷 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.
Leone Tonkinson is a South African-born artist with a deep connection to nature. Raised among the golden light, vast plains and wildlife of Africa, she finds her inspiration in the pure beauty of animals and their quiet, meaningful presence.
Now based in the Netherlands, Leone paints with..
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