Tea Family

This is the most fairytale, domestic and a very personal collection. The prototypes of pictorial images in this series are real tea pots, each of which keeps its own family history, even an inmost secret sometimes. The collection is linked to a family tea drinking tradition, which in Armenian families quite often turns into a generously served table with homemade jam and fresh bake. Most of my ‘models’ are porcelain items from granny’s sideboard and a chest of drawers hiding trousseau within. In my paintings recognizable classic models of a famous Meissen manufacture, Riga Kuznetsov porcelain factory, Dulev’s factory, and St. Petersburg Imperial porcelain factory move through most unexpected metamorphoses.