Peak tulip season means peak chaos in the traditional tulip areas. The fields around Lisse, Noordwijkerhout, Hillegom, Voorhout and Sassenheim are being flooded with tulip admirers. And honestly, you should see the tulip fields at least once in your life! This shot was taken at Tulip Experience Amsterdam, where the fields are bursting with colorContinueContinue reading “Tulip season”
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Tulip Experience 2026
A selection of the Ninety-nine tulip paintings are now installed at Tulip Experience Amsterdam. In a historical setting of the Year of our Lord 1627 🌷🌷 The Tulip Experience is a beautiful place surrounded by tulip fields and visited by people from all over the world! The collection is inspired by tulips from the timeContinueContinue reading “Tulip Experience 2026”
Installing the paintings
Together with my neighbour Bart – a carpenter by profession – we hung the first paintings and carefully measured everything out. Creating an exhibition is not just about painting. It’s also about measuring, drilling, moving things around, and seeing whether the works speak well to each other. This will be my third year exhibiting atContinueContinue reading “Installing the paintings”
Preparing for the Season
The new tulip season is just around the corner. That means it is time to bring the Ninetynine Tulips collection out of storage and prepare the paintings for a new season of exhibitions. All ninety-nine paintings are carefully dusted off, the frames are gently cleaned with a damp cloth, and each work is inspected beforeContinueContinue reading “Preparing for the Season”
Own the pixel. Own the paint
How does Ninetynine Tulips work? 🌷 Ninetynine Tulips is a collection of 99 tulip paintings, currently on display in the Netherlands.Each NFT is a digital variation of one of these works. In total, there will be 9,801 NFTs — 99 variations for each of the 99 paintings. When the full collection is released, the collectorContinueContinue reading “Own the pixel. Own the paint”
FlowerDays Anna Paulowna
While the residents of Anna Paulowna were still busy attaching fresh flowers to their stunning flower installations outside, I was attending the sponsor evening of the 70th Bloemendagen. The evening featured a fascinating presentation by Henk Looijensteijn on the historical tale of Tulip Mania, followed by the opening of my exhibition: 54 tulips from theContinueContinue reading “FlowerDays Anna Paulowna”
70th Flowerdays
🌷 Showing off tulips at the Anna Paulowna Flower Days 🌷 From April 19–23, part of the Ninetynine Tulips series is on display during the Anna Paulowna Flower Days. In a recreated 1636 Dutch “showroom,” I’ll exhibit 54 paintings that bring the early history of the tulip in the Netherlands to life. Highlights include: TheContinueContinue reading “70th Flowerdays”
Recent publication
There are many books about the Tulipmania. A recent pulication in relation to the exposition at The Black Tulip Museum, is a book by Henk Looijesteijn in cooperation with Annemarie Vels Heijn.
It is a pleasent read with many historic facts and knows. There is also an English edtion: “Tulip Fever – 1636-1637 – Myth and Reality”, ISBN 978 90 8293 6179.
International Portrait Day
On Friday the 23rd of June it was International Portrait Day. We shared the portrait of a sultan presenting the cultivated tulips of the Ottoman Empire to the world. Thank you for this gift!
The ‘Sultan with Tulips’ is part of the Ninetynine Tulips collection, until the end of August on display at the Black Tulip Museum in Lisse.