Tea Time
by Sarah Brayer
- Date:
- 2001
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
by Sarah Brayer
$2,000–$8,000. Smaller works: $2,000–$3,500. Key value factors: Brayer's unique luminous technique on handmade washi appeals to collectors of both Japanese prints and contemporary art.
Created in 2001, this mokuhanga print draws on the Japanese tea ceremony, one of the country's most refined cultural practices, as a framework for exploring stillness, warmth, and the quality of interior light. The tea ceremony unfolds in a small, deliberately austere room where every element, from the placement of the kettle to the angle of the flower arrangement, is considered. Brayer does not depict the ceremony literally but evokes its atmosphere: the warm tones of matcha green, the earthen colors of raku bowls, and the soft light filtering through shoji screens. The title's casual phrasing, "Tea Time" rather than chanoyu or sado, suggests the informal spirit of daily tea-drinking rather than the formal ceremony, grounding the print in accessible, lived experience.
Tea Time was created by Sarah Brayer in 2001.
Tea Time depicts food & drink.
