Wonders of Tea

This photo was originally taken during the winter months for its warmth and simplicity. I think it fits at any time of the year though.

Tea is Love

The photographer is janisDA

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I’ve always been a fan of DeviantArt – for those not in the know its an online art community for independent artists to upload their pieces and have the community comment, buy and guide each other. Its an absolutely incredible source of art and completely blows out of the water the idea that art is something for the elite minority. Art is truly independent, free and beautiful on this site.

As such I’ve been perusing the pages at DA looking for tea in art and have come across a few artists who’ve been great emotional movers. Not all of these artists do just tea – in fact very few do! But they’ve contributed something tea related in at least on of their works. I’d recommend viewing their gallery for some incredible examples.

My first one is Emilia Stasiak who titled the piece below: Tea Time

The lighting and composition here is perfect and the fact the artist has allowed to bubbles to stay on the surface of the tea resisting the urge to pop or shift them out of frame shows a naturalness most often lost in the goal for neatness.

You can view the rest of her gallery here: Emilia Stasiak

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Mr Gladstone was one of the greatest Prime Ministers of the UK from the late 19th Century. Often being the inspiration for other greats like Winston Churchill. He was very fond of his tea and I recently stumbled across a poem he wrote during his PM years that goes:

Tea, The Cure – All
If you are cold, tea will warm you.
If you are too heated, tea will cool you.
If you are too depressed, tea will cheer you.
If you are too exhausted, tea will calm you!

I think he made a better politician than a poet but his sentiment about the great leaf is very true indeed.

William Gladstones autobiography can be obtained at Amazon.

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Randomly trawling the net for pictures of tea I come across this folorn specimen. I’m not sure whether to feel pitty, anger or…check myself into a hospital for letting tea get to me in such a way.

You see it seems a little stale. With the cold tiles and the jaunty angle it looks ill and alone. This picture caused me much strife for some of the afternoon until I found some better ones. Alas I won’t be putting those up until tomorrow.

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