This painting captures the delicate moment where spring turns into summer — the sweetness of a ripe cherry resting beside a fragile blossom. The pairing evokes innocence and vitality, the freshness of a first kiss, and the fleeting beauty of seasons in transition. Light plays across lace and fruit, celebrating both the softness of fabric and the radiant shine of nature’s gifts. More than a still life, this work is a quiet ode to joy, tenderness, and the small miracles that signal new beginnings. Exclusive to this collection, it reminds us to savor life’s simplest yet most profound pleasures.
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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