DMC1 Donna McLuskie - Tea Mystic

Title of artwork: Tea Mystic
Medium: Pen and Watercolour Ink
Size: 20 x 36cm
Year: 2024

Description: There's a lot of mysticism involved with tea making and tea drinking. This pen and ink drawing makes use of 28 watercolours to illustrate the complexity, delicacy and inspiration required to create great tea and tea products. After a day spent harvesting the tea of Welshwoman Lucy George, there was a sea of creatures to perceive in a cup of her delicious kombucha.
It's no easy task choosing just the right leaves to pick and knowing when to advance each stage in the process of turning those precious little leaves into extraordinary tea.
I think I'll stick to creating pareidolia drawings (showing creatures and faces I perceive in places) and drinking tea!