Painting with coffee: A unique medium of drips and stains
IN the past few years painting with coffee has become a common practice among many artists around the world. The established International Coffee Festivals among key cities in the whole world were the see-through evidences why coffee art is widereaching accepted. Eventually International coffee artists affirmed that using coffee as their medium are so unique and can’t be compare with any other pigmented mediums and dyes, not to mention its smell of course, because coffee is simply a stain and has a character of its own.
Unknowingly, a Filipino coffee artist was already making waves in the International coffee art scene through his winnings at the 2018 Coffee Art Project wherein his Philippine Entry Entitled Golden Happiness Coffee Brings won 1st Runner Up at the New York City Coffee Festival held at the Metropolitan Pavillon, in 12th – 14th of October 2018. Another international recognition at the 2019 Coffee Art Project Runner-up award in London Coffee Festival held at the Old Truman Brewery in London last March 28-31, 2019 with his Philippine Entry entitled “My Coffee Grows Old With Me”, a recognition from the esteemed judges of the highest merit on Spirit of Humanity. Prior to that, he already did a coffee art exhibition in Paris, France at the “Raconte Moi Le Café”, the 2017 International Coffee Exposition and Art Exhibition in Paris, in March 31 to April 2, 2017, at Delirio (Paris 11), located in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, near Place de la Bastille together with the world’s renowned coffee artists.
In Moscow, Russia, on March 14, 2020, together with top International Master Class Coffee Artists in the whole world, the 1st International Coffee Art Book entitled “Great Coffee Travels” ISBN 978-5-90596154-0 by Julia Latte launched at Yaroslav Library in Moscow, Russia, among them are works of Rens E. Tuzon representing the Culture and the Arts of the Philippines.
With the initiative of Kapepunero, and the return of the World Food Expo at the SMX Conventional Center, the involvement of coffee art painting as the evolution continues become part of the Coffee Zone clustering. As Kapepunero features the two well-known Filipino Coffee Artists forming a Two-man Coffee Art Exhibition with Vin Palasan from Lanao Del Norte and the award-winning Filipino-international Coffee Artist Tuzon, in participation with Bohemya Etnika and Coffee Town Philippines.