Skip to content

COUPONS
  • EN
  • FR
COUPONS
  • Sign Up
  • Contact Us
Tazo Tea
  • Products
  • TAZO® RECIPES
  • Our Purpose
  • Our Story
  • Contact Us
  • Sign Up

Collections

ALL PRODUCTS

ALL PRODUCTS

TEA BAGS

TEA BAGS

LATTE & ICED TEA MIXES

LATTES & ICED TEA MIXES

  • Tazo® Recipes
  • Our Purpose
  • Our Story
  • Contact Us
  • Sign Up
Alt text

Inspiration in a Cup of Tea

TAZO Brings You: Adventures in Tea

Meet the people who make, market, drink and enjoy TAZO tea—and the explorer’s spirit that unites them. Each tells a different story, in their own words, but all agree: Often, the best things in tea, and life, are unexpected.

Inspiration in a Cup of Tea

January 21, 2019

Madeline Richardson, College Student, Artist, TAZO fan

TEA INSPIRATION

Inspiration in a Cup of Tea

When I was around 12, I threw a tea party with 15 of my friends. We held it outside, so it felt like a garden party. We borrowed my great-grandma’s antique tea cups, saucers, and silver spoons, and put up little lanterns. We wore fancy dresses and straw hats and ribbons in our hair.

I served TAZO Passion tea. The colour was just so pretty. It looked like a garden party. We were a tea-drinking family, and we always had TAZO tea in our cupboard. We were also a family of artists. My dad is a book illustrator, my mom is a food stylist and photographer, my grandparents founded a theater. When I was 10, my acrylic still-life of a banana won a blue ribbon in the state fair!

As a teen, I developed a passion for fashion, and, in college now, I am studying fashion illustration. And recently, I found inspiration in an unexpected place. 

I was playing around with watercolours and drinking a cup of TAZO Passion tea. The tea was such a pretty colour, I thought, why shouldn’t I try painting with it? I opened several tea bags, sprinkled the contents onto the paper, and dripped water on them. The tea bled magenta into the paint, creating these gorgeous purples and blues, and the ingredients—the tea itself, the rose petals—created this raised texture that reminded me of beading you would see on a dress. That gave me another, unexpected idea. 

Madeline richardson

After a few test tries, I sketched a dress that you might see on the runway or red carpet, then sprinkled on TAZO Passion tea and brushed it into areas where I wanted beading. Then I let the tea work its magic. I loved how it turned out, and I posted it on my Instagram. Now, I want to try painting with other TAZO flavours, like Wild Sweet Orange, and milder flavours. 

It just goes to show, you can find inspiration everywhere, if you are open to it. I have always loved tea—the nice, flowy, relaxing, soothing, comfortable feeling that comes over me when I drink it. Yet surprisingly, while drinking a cup of TAZO tea, it became part of my artist’s tool kit as well. It sparked a totally random idea and led to a beautiful creation. 

I want to keep creating and finding new ways to surprise and delight myself and others. When you step outside your comfort zone, try something new, and it works out like this, it’s the greatest feeling. 

Continue Reading

Less Reading

Share to facebook Opens in new window Share to pinterest_share Opens in new window Share to twitter Opens in new window Share to email Opens in new window

AddThis is disabled because of cookie consent

Related Articles

alt text

Winding Road

January 21, 2019

Professional Tea Taster Alexander White

Learn more about R&D Group Manager Alexander White, his journey to become a Professional Tea Taster, and his experiences working with TAZO® Tea.

[unilever:tazo/article/winding-road]

READ NOW »
alt text

Making Bold Moves

January 21, 2019

Life Lessons With Jami Lewchik

Learn how Senior Brand Manager Jami Lewchik embraces the unfamiliar & uses that spirit to inspire TAZO® to approach tea in unconventional & unexpected ways!

[unilever:tazo/article/making-bold-moves]

READ NOW »

View all Articles

  • Sitemap
  • Sign Up
Privacy Notice
Accessibility
Terms of Use
AdChoices

Share:

Facebook
Instagram
Twitter
Pinterest
1-800-745-9269
Unilever logo

© 2020 Unilever.
This website is directed only to Canadian consumers for products and services of Unilever Canada Inc.
This website is not directed to US consumers or any other consumer outside Canada.