Tea Plant with Butterflies

The tea plant, from which Chinese tea is harvested, is a beautiful flowering bush, called camellia in English, renowned for its calming influence.

This print of an ink and watercolor brush painting by Jim Hardesty (He Lishan) is surmounted by a beautifully calligraphed poem by the famous poet of the Song Dynasty, Su Shi (1037-1101). 

In this poem the poet, feeling lonely, visits a famous temple, but finds no one to confide in but a tea plant, which bursts into bloom "like a flame in the snow."

A museum quality fine-art giclée print.

Size: 16 x 22 inches.