008 Sweet Peas Fine Art Giclée (Paper Edition)
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German Etching 310gms 125/ limited editions signed by artist.
W: 300mm x H: 300mm x D: 60mm
W: 12" x H: 12" x D: 2"
Approx. Weight: 1kg
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DS LCT 202 SP
About "008 Sweet Peas Fine Art Giclée (Paper Edition)"
"Letters in Petal Script" was inspired by memory, fragrance, and the quiet emotional architecture of home. As a child growing up in South Africa, sweet peas climbed through my mother's winter garden, filling the crisp morning air with their unmistakable perfume. I still remember leaving for school at sunrise, the cold beginning to settle into the day, and breathing in that delicate scent drifting through the front garden gate. In the late afternoons, as the light softened and the first signs of frost approached, the fragrance would return - gentle, familiar, and deeply comforting.
This painting became less about flowers themselves and more about the memory carried through the atmosphere. The sweet peas seem to hover lightly within the white vessel, almost like fragments of handwriting suspended in the air. Their translucent petals unfold softly against the muted grey-green background, creating a sense of stillness and quiet reflection.
In my Solar Realism approach, I am always searching for the hidden life within ordinary objects -- the contained light, emotional resonance, and silent presence that often go unnoticed. Here, the porcelain form acts almost like an anchor for memory, while the flowers themselves become fleeting moments of softness and light.
There is also something deeply architectural in the composition: balance, breathing space, restraint, and harmony between form and atmosphere. I wanted the work to feel calm and cultivated, as though the viewer has stepped into a quiet room where time slows down for a moment.
"Letters in Petal Script" speaks of tenderness, nostalgia, femininity, and the beauty of simple rituals remembered across time. It is an invitation to pause, breathe, and reconnect with the small sensory memories that quietly shape our lives.
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About Leone
Leone Tonkinson is a South African-born fine artist based in the Netherlands and founder of Solar Realism, a painting approach centred on the presence and character of natural light.
Working primarily in oils, she combines traditional layered painting techniques with close observation, creating still lifes, wildlife and botanical works marked by luminosity, quiet presence and finely observed detail.
Her South African roots and her life within the Dutch landscape both inform her work, bringing together warmth, nature and a strong sense of place. Rather than simply depicting a subject, Tonkinson seeks the moment when light, atmosphere and presence give it emotional resonance.
Her work is held in private collections and exhibited in the Netherlands and internationally.
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US$ 238-98,044
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Exhibitions
Leone Tonkinson has exhibited in both South Africa and Europe, with recent exhibitions in the Netherlands. Her work is held in private collections internationally.
She is the founder of Solar Realism, a painting approach that explores light not simply as illumination, but as an active presence within the subject. Through traditional layered oil-painting techniques, careful observation and controlled natural light, form, atmosphere and emotional presence emerge together.
Her work applies this approach to still life, wildlife and the natural world, where reflected light, transparency, texture and subtle shifts in colour become part of the subject itself.
Education
Formal training in architecture, design, and classical oil
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