From Tea Packaging to Art

Begins with a Cup of Tea

Tea packaging was salvaged from numerous cups of tea and I found a moment to pause. 

Transfer &  Watercolors

To transferring the tea package(s) onto paper and layering with with watercolor. 

Ends as a TeaScape

Layered complex artworks that evoke balance, space, and a meditative stillness found through drinking tea.

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TAKE A SEAT - new TeaScape works

Yellow Chair of the Snow Banks

A Seat by the Firehole

A Seat in the Snow

Spicy Sweet Seat

Kava Refuge

Nighty Night

Ginger Home

Raspberry Leaf Seat

Reservoir Ginger Seat

Elissa's Energizing Striped Seat

Ginger Turmeric Seat

Wild Sweet Orange Seat

TEASCAPES

Ginger Thermal

Unintended Coalescence

A Seat by the Firehole

Mint Hemlock

Cold Season

Marshmallow Train

Ginger Dusk

Cinnamon Sky II

Cinnamon Sky

Calming Poppies

Ginger Fields

Ginger Castle

Ginger Yellow

Antioxidant Blue

Ginger Water

Super Antioxidant

Wild Orange Utah

Wild Orange Utah 2

Wild Sweet Cairn

Cairn Chai

Wild Sweet Utah

Spicy Sweet Bowtie

About the TeaScapes

​After a family trip to Wyoming and Utah, I wanted to imbue my art with the peace and spaciousness that I experienced there – to make those places and feelings permanent in my art, and life. I started meditating and playing with image transfers of tea packaging, and made a connection between the tea and the places I had travelled. The surfaces could be layered with watercolors and gouache over the transferred packaging, connecting the teas’ ingredients, their colors and intended purpose to the landscape. I could both hold those places for myself and help viewers explore the landscape more deeply – creating a meditative artwork. 
 
The paintings have become stylized interpretations of the landscape – while maintaining a clear reference to the location. I’m interested in using highly pigmented paint, often employing strong linear elements to help describe the energy in a place. The reversed labels from the packaging create a subtext of pattern, inviting the viewer to see more.  READ MORE.

Recently Sold TeaScapes

TeaScape Process

Watch my process for developing the #teascapes. Video, courtesy of General Store Cooperative​.