All the Tea in China’ is an original painting featuring an abstracted chinese tea pot and cups.
A play on the saying “All the tea in China”. It is an idiom representing a vast, immeasurable fortune or something of immense value. It is most commonly used in the phrase “not for all the tea in China,” which signifies an absolute refusal to do something, regardless of any reward or incentive offered. It’s about the value of connection over a cuppa....ie “I wouldn’t trade it for ‘all the tea in china”.
This artwork work was a creation from the ‘How do you take it?’ collection. Composition is constructed from abstracted still life. Artwork is a combination of acrylic paint and charcoal line painted on stretched canvas that is gallery wrapped.
Style is ‘Fragmatism’. Invented by Kristine Ballard as a device to explore the merging of shape and space. A style where beauty is often camouflaged. Deconstructed shape and reconstructed colour drive Ballard’s development in this style.