A blue tulip with white around the edges of the peddle. The background is dark red and green mixed together.

Addy Coumou's "tulip fever" began when she first saw the parrot tulips of the seventeenth-century painters at the Teylers Museum in the Netherlands. The fickleness of the flower and the characteristic lines made a great impression on her. Taking her own spin on traditional floral paintings, Coumou paints realistic tulips on a stark black background, making the paintings sometimes almost an abstraction. She has also created her own techniques to create the most brilliant, life-like tulip image she can using acrylic paints, oil pastels, and graphite on a transparent background.